Monday, February 10, 2020
LOVE YOU MOM, I FOUND THAT VERY HARD TO SAY OVER THE YEARS, WHY, I HAVE NO IDEA, YOU WORKED YOUR HEART OUT FOR ALL OF US OVER THE YEARS, FORTY OF THEM IN THE SWELTERING HEAT OF THE SNOW WHITE LAUNDRY FOR A PITTANCE, JUST BARELY ENOUGH TO KEEP US ALIVE, LIFE WAS FAR FROM BEING EASY FOR YOU AND I NEVER HEARD YOU COMPLAIN EVEN THOUGH YOU SURELY HAD A LOT OF REASON TOO, YOU WERE A GOOD WOMEN, YOU NEVER TOOK ANY TIME FOR YOURSELF WHEN WERE GROWING UP WORKING DAY AND NIGHT, EVEN AFTER LOSING YOUR FIRST GRANDCHILD, CHRISTOPHER, MY SON, AND YOUR TWO CHILDREN DAMIEN,11, AND DEREK 42, BOTH WHO DIED TRAGICALLY. YOU WERE ALWAYS STRONG ON THE OUTSIDE HOWEVER I KNEW YOU WERE HURTING IN YOUR HEART, WHEN DAD DIED SUDDENLY AT 56 I SAY YOU CRY, I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING, I COULDN'T, MY HEART BROKE TO SEE YOU HURTING THE WAY YOU WERE, YOU, LIKE MYSELF KEPT YOUR FEELING BOTTLED UP INSIDE, HOWEVER, EVEN THOUGH I NEVER TOLD YOU OVER THE YEARS I KNEW AND YES IT ALSO HURT ME. MOM, NOW YOUR IN ANOTHER PLACE, NO MORE WASHING CLOTHES FOR A FEW DOLLARS, NO MORE WORRYING WHERE THE NEXT MEAL WILL COME FROM, NO MORE SORROW, YOUR HOME MOM AND YOU HAVE AN ETERNITY TO FISH, SNARE RABBITS, PICK BERRIES, TEND YOUR GARDEN TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT. THIS I KNOW BECAUSE MY MOM, GERTIE GROUCHY LAST JULY AT AGE 95 YEARS VERBALLY ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS HER PERSONAL SAVOUR AND I HAD THE HONOR TO BE WITH HER WHEN SHE DID, MOM, I WILL ALWAYS LOVE, APPRECIATE AND RESPECT YOU FOR THE PERSON I KNEW YOU WERE. LOVE TOMMY
