Mother's Day

Everybody knows how much I love my Mama & my grandma. On my first Mother's Day last year, grandma celebrated her first Mother's Day in Heaven. This past year has been hard. This year has been incredible. This year has been a life-changing from the inside-out year. I physically and emotionally ache when I remember Mother's Day last year. I am not the same person as I was last year. It feels like it was an eternity ago, it feels like it never happened, it feels like yesterday I was physically with grandma -- all at the same time those feeling exist. I am trying to do whatever I can to just focus on all my blessings and be able to enjoy this mother's day, but it will always be a day that I feel homesick for heaven - to be together with my mom and grandma again. I don't know how much I'll be posting this weekend... so this post will be my Mother's Day post probably.

I hope everybody has a wonderful Mother's Day. I hope each of you know how special you are that God chose you to be a mother, there is no greater role on earth. And I hope this Mother's Day and the year to come, we all feel the necessity and the call to honor our mothers in memory, in our actions, but above all else - in how we love The Lord and how we love each other

Here are some posts from my old blog about grandma from last year I wanted to reference here. I can't even remember who this person was that wrote these --- so much has changed:

• Grandma went to heaven on Mother's Day 2007 - here is the post from the day before. Only God knew what was to happen. I have faith that He had it planned out exactly how it was supposed to be. I can't keep saying to myself....if only I had known, I would have driven up there the weekend before like I ALMOST did. I literally was so close to juast driving up there the weekend before at the spur of the moment but decided not to because of some family issues on Brandon's side....I wish I could have seen her one last time.....I wish when I saw her in January, I would have known that would be the last time, this side of heaven http://therooksfamily.blogspot.com/2007/05/moved-in.html
  
• The eulogy I read for my grandma http://therooksfamily.blogspot.com/2007/06/grandmas-eulogy.html
  
• The next post I wrote, a few weeks later http://therooksfamily.blogspot.com/2007/05/back-to-blogging.html
  
• Sermon and Lessons on Porch Swing (with grandma) http://therooksfamily.blogspot.com/2007/06/frequency-sermon-lessons-from-porch.html


• Memories of grandma http://therooksfamily.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-memories-of-grandma.html
  
• Grandma's Life History http://therooksfamily.blogspot.com/2007/06/grandma-life-history.html


• This day was a total turning point in my life. God did come to my rescue and the struggles drew me closer to Him. After this day, I would begin to feel and understand and see God and the Truth for really the first time in my life http://therooksfamily.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-find-my-discipline-in-reading-bible.html


• November 2007 thoughts http://therooksfamily.blogspot.com/2007/11/grandma-heaven-preaching.html