Happy Mother’s Day

I have sent and given countless Mother’s Day cards over the past 40+ years.  Families often involve some blended and extended elements.  It is not just a mother, father, and children, along with paternal and maternal grandparents. Divorce, death and remarriage widens the circle significantly. I have chosen to include everyone, especially on Mother’s Day. There have been years when my gift and card giving have been better and years when they were not as admirable. It is what it is. Not carrying guilt is a choice I normally make very quickly.  I tend to travel light. I am happy with my lifelong choice of “inclusion,” and would simply encourage you to consider a similar practice.  Kindness, love and acceptance cost much less than disappointment, bitterness and grudge carrying.  Have a BIG heart.  Make the effort. Take the high road even when others do not.  At the peak, I was buying/giving SEVEN Mother’s Day cards to include my spouse, our mothers, step-mothers and all grandmothers. Now, I am down to only two.  My spouse and my step-mother.  I would love to still be buying more cards!  I miss you, Mother.