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…