~Dear mom~

My dear mommy was a very active person, she was running her own business for several years together with my dear daddy, who passed away in a heartattack in the age of 62. Mom kept on working to forfill their dream and did so until she got the cancer

My mother was always there for me and my brothers, she helped us with her visdom and we could always trust upon her. We loved her so dearly. When the doctors at the hospital told us there was nothing to do, she had only a couple of months to live, I asked her: "Do you want to come home?" And she said yes and I nursed her to the end. That was the least I could do, to let her spend her last days in life at home. It was an easy descision to take. I was studying at the University at the time, but took the time I needed and I have no regreats at all. But to see her go weeker day by day was a hard time for me, we gave her oxygene and morfin in doses that increased for each day
Mom passed away in the age of only 61 and I miss her each day.
If I am half as good mother for my boys that she was for me and my brothers, well, if so, my boys can be happy.

"For as long as I can remember
you were always by my side to give me support,
to give me confidence, to give me help

For as long as I can remember
you were always the person I looked up to,
so strong, so sensitive, so pretty

For as long as I can remember
and still today you are,
everything a mother should be..
For as long as I can remember
you always provided stability
within our family full of laughter,
full of tears, full of love
Whatever I have become is because of you
and I thank you forever for our relationship.

Susan Polis Schutz
Poem used with permission of Blue Mountain Art

~We'll Never Say Goodbye~

I cannot see you with my eyes
or hear you with my ears.
But thoughts of you are with me still
and often there are tears.

You whisper in the rustling leaves
that linger in the fall;
And in the gentle breeze
I'm sure I hear your call.
A part of you remains with me
that no one can take away.

It gives me strength to carry on
at dawning of new day.
I think of happy times we shared,
and then I softly sigh.
But this I know; we'll meet again
And never say goodbye.
Author Unknown