Mother's Day 2017
Tribute to my Mom - Catherine Ann De Lorenzo
If I can say one thing to my mom on this Mother's day - aside from telling her how much I love and miss her - I would have to say how proud I am of her. She's been gone for almost 25 years and I am only now just learning how strong my mom actually was.
Life comes full circle. It amazes me sometimes. Just when you think you know all there is to possibly know you are blindsided with something else. Something you had never known and no one had ever told you. You discover it quite by accident and suddenly you're entrenched in the past. There are things we learn about our parents as we age that suddenly make them more human than we thought possible.
My mom was a single mom and she took care of her three girls single handedly. Being a single mom back in the 70's was a whole other ball game. Especially doing this on your own. She was both mom and dad to us through our most impressionable years. So, to learn something new, something that should have remained buried, makes me look at my mom with a new respect and a new understanding of how much she had actually sacrificed for me and my sisters.
If I could be 1/2 the mother my mom was that would be a great accomplishment. Happy Mother's Day in Heaven Mom! Until we meet again... I love you!
