Sunday, May 11, 2008

Mother's Day

My husband sometimes surprises me, like today at church. Every Mother's Day, mothers of the congregation are given a carnation by each of their children. When the time came, my daughter went up to the front with all the other adult children to get a flower for me. At the same time, my husband went up (his own mother passed away many years ago.)

I asked him, "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to get a flower for you," he said.

"Why? I'm not your mother."

"It will be from Brian," he said. He turned and walked up to the front and I just melted into tears. My son, Brian, is away from home, training with the Marine Corps and I had been missing him. My husband sweetly and thoughtfully stood in for him today.

Makes me glad I stuck with him these 21 years.

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