...today for daughters, who without, I would not be a mom. So, though today is the day Hallmark Cards and floral shops, plant vendors and restaurants want you to believe you should be doing something thoughtful for you mom ,I didn't do not of that. I'm just thankful to be one. I'm thankful they got themselves grown and gone, and seem to be handling life well.
I often hear people share stories about adult children who are in some sort of crisis. Young adult people who need propping up for any number of legitimate reasons. Finding themselves suddenly unemployed, without a safety net and having to move back in with parents who had in the interim turned their space into a home office or exercise room. Finding themselves with some chronic health problem that seems insurmountable and needing the support and love, care and compassion that only parents can provide. Finding themselves in a situation where they are drug or alcohol dependent and not able to manage their lives without help. Finding themselves doing something illegal, and stuck in a place no parent would ever expect or wish for an adult child to be. Just generally finding themselves to be in a situation of dependence, when all parties involved thought they were becoming self-sufficient.
Mine are none of these, and I am thankful. It is heart wrenching to hear friends and total strangers who need to talk about horrendous circumstances. And I can readily commiserate with those people as they seem to willing to open their hearts and souls to share disturbing stories with anyone who will listen and offer sympathy. But at the end of the day, those heart wrenching stories make me even more aware of what a blessing it is to have successful, healthy, contented adult children who are not burdened with medical problems, addictions, incarceration, financial woes.
Well, then... thanks for making me a mom.
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