Today is my mother’s birthday. She was born in 1929. She left us five days after her birthday in the year 2000.
The missing never ends for those we love, does it? There have been so many who have gone before. Today…the people of my youth, my blood family, my friend and sister of my heart are all gone. There is only my brother and I. We are two left from many.
Although, we both have children and grandchildren, so the line of life stretches ever onward…and onward the way it should.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
My sister and I are all that are left in my immediate family. I spent the weekend with my mom’s people in Minnesota at a reunion. It was strange to be there without her, my brother and father.
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I so understand!
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My mom was born in 1929 too but in September and I lost her in 2007. I do understand your feelings on this day. I lost both of my parents to brain cancer but Dad left me in 1992 a month before his birthday. I miss him so very, very much.
I love your photos of the western skies. Hope your day is grand with precious memories!
Rita
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Daddy died 9 months before Momma, she could never stop grieving. Now she is with him, which is good.
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It is true Linda, the missing never ends. I lost my mom last Christmas, she was 92 and ready to go but we all miss her.
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We never want them to stay in pain and suffering, but we don’t want them to leave either.
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You are right that missing them never ends, but the memories are precious.
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They are and I’m very thankful for them!
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Life is full of losses and loves isn’t it? I miss my Mum. Thinking of you .. Thank you for sharing these wonderful photos ?
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It’s good we miss them! That says alot about them.
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It says lots doesn’t it 😊
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I lost my Ma when I was 23. She’s been gone for more than half my life, and I have never got used to being without a mother…
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I don’t think we ever do. 😦
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How wonderful that you miss your Mom after all these years. She must have been a very good mother that truely wanted her children:)
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She was, Lucky my brother and I.
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A piece of our loved ones stays with us forever, doesn’t it? I have lost so many and now just my Mother and me is all that is left….Papa died in 1999 and my little brother in 2013. But we carry on with our memories and love for them. And that love helps us carry on.
Blessings to you, my dear friend!
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You are so right, my dear friend! You are so right!
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It takes a while to overcome some losses. Hugs.
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We just learn to live with them. I suppose.
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We never forget.
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it is my Mum’s birthday on 8th august and she died in 1969 but I think of her everyday. She would be 96
No matter what happens to each of us ….the world keep spinning and life goes on….
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It does, Patrecia! And we spin with it.
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Aww, Linda, I understand your feelings. I lost my own mother in 2003 to cancer. She was only 70. I still miss her also. Loss is hard, we never stop missing our loved ones. I lost the love of my life six years ago; he was only 57. And then my best friend of over 30 years died the following year. Was a tough time. But life goes on and I have a wonderful grandson who is the new love of my life!
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Oh, you do understand. I lost so many just months from each other that for a few years I sorta struggled! HUGS
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Memories of the heart are the best ones to have!
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