Fashion and Fun after Fifty

REPOSTING FROM 2012

Mother’s Day will be bittersweet

• today at 50, I’ve been a mother for almost 20 years
• my grandmother was 50 when I was born, she took me & my sis under her wing at the age of 57 and lived to be 98
• Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
• the parent of a 3 month preemie weighed a mere 2.5 lbs, not sure if he would live or die
• my God is Awesome
• i look in the mirror and see my mother
• bore but did not raise me
• died before I really got to know her
• feared I would have to care for her in her old age
• grandmother said in order to live a long life you have to treat everybody right and pray
• Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
• not a friend but a fierce protector and provider
• mother never saw her grandsons
• a mother of 2 black males – RIP Trayvon
• in the store – keep your hands out of your pockets or they think you are stealing
• don’t lower your eyes
• know your history – never forget where you came from
• work hard
• no fear
• believe and achieve
• no drinking drugs or wild and crazy women
• pray
• bless your food
• be grateful
• study hard
• eat your food
• don’t eat too much candy
• Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
• don’t curse, fight, drink or do drugs
• wash and dry your clothes, sew cook and clean – I am raising some woman’s husband
• slow down you are driving too fast
• look in your rear view mirror
• keep your eyes straight ahead
• at 98 I held her hand as she transitioned, my guardian angel, my protector, teacher, minister and enforcer
• Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
• you got an “F”!
• stop crying
• open up
• you’ll feel better
• didn’t i tell you
• now why did you do that?
• wait for your brother
• are you listening to me?
• what did you say!
• I love you
• here, try this
• be nice
• save your money
• get a job
• go outside and play
• you have to work hard
• leave him alone
• say cheese
• come here
• sit down
• are you crazy
• what did you do?
• buried my father
• never knew my paternal grandparents
• i had a brother
• my lil sis is gone
• i’ll never be an aunt
• Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
• don’t spit that out
• i said,let’s go
• stop it
• Gloria was killed
• do your homework
• turn off that tv
• dinner!
• have a good day
• God bless you
• how was school today?
• change your clothes
• clean your room
• Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
• get up!
• make your bed
• breakfast!
• take out the trash
• stop it!
• working hard until he graduates from college
• remembering the fear of his first day on the bus, bigger fear, first day driving alone
• emergency room visits
• months and months in the hospital
• surgeries, feeding tubes, iv’s, central lines, rsv, nicu, picu
• what did i do to deserve this
• God why?
• teach me how to swim
• can’t breast feed
• crying all the time
• will this ever end?
• fell off the bike
• pregnant again…fear
• water broke…uh oh
• never got a maternity leave
• slow down
• barium swallows, mri’s
• mcdonald’s ball pit
• Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
• pediasure, pedylyte, nebulizer, syringe, pulse ox, nurses
• pick that up
• put that back
• don’t play with that
• leave it alone
• boy don’t make me come and get you
• i’m an orphan-no mother
• Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
• ieps, department of disabilities, nurses and kids, special ed classes, mainstreaming
• go sit down!
• come here
• where you goin?
• i’ll put the ashes in the coffin with mama
• Mother’s Day will be bittersweet
  

  My mother in high school

  

  My grandmother~mother~father~friend

  

  My sister ~ RIP

  

  My preemie