What ya thinking about mother?
Silently I’ve noticed the sun setting in your eyes ever so slightly these past few months over time spent with you.
The overflow of your heart speaks deep appreciation for our visits and our calls. A mother’s smile welcomes us no matter her prognosis of the moment.
My unannounced visits faithfully find you wearing that red lipstick you’ve been famous for my whole life.
But yet, for the words you’ve held back to keep a family from worrying or thoughts too afraid to articulate, your eyes speak volumes from the pages of uncertainty that prompt a daughter to wonder,
What ya thinking about mother?
Sometimes in life the negative reports need to be shoved into a drawer for the moment.
Every now and then we all need a good day; maybe even a perfect day.
Perfect days you plan for; you pencil them in your calendar and make the day happen.
From the heart you unearth treasures of every kind that arms can’t contain them. Much like the windows of heaven that God pours abundantly from onto His children.
Mother, it’s your eightieth birthday and gold glittered balloons and everything else gold will punctuate this perfect day from start to finish.
With sadness, your milestone birthday will be an outside event with you watching from a nursing home window due to the current circumstances that mandate.
But you bloom where you’re planted.
You create and decorate
For a mother most deserving…
Announcing your
Princess for a Day Event.
Honoring that little girl in our mother who quite possibly never thought of herself or was celebrated as the princess God sees in her.
I decided that every girl, young or old attending this Princess for a Day event,
Be celebrated also as a princess with their own crown and scepter.
The little princes will also be celebrated as royal heirs to the throne with a sword in their own honor.
(Excerpt from my blog Whose I am)
It’s your day mom.
Introducing your perfect day.
Through mother’s eyes, her front row seat to a perfect day.
So many guests came to honor this Princess for a Day.
Your daughters, your sons present and afar they came.
Your grandchildren and great-grandchildren attended also.
That best friend you’ve shared years of every kind wouldn’t miss your day.
Cousins came and took their spot just like the old days of family reunions.
Out of town great-grandchildren enjoyed the festivities through technology via Facetime.
Unattended but princesses still in thought took royal selfies for their great-grandmother to enjoy.
From your window and phone, I hope the evidence bore witness to the impact and meaning of your life.
One by one, the avalanche of tributes from those touched by your life well lived before them.
Beyond precious were tender words from the mouths of babes. Even little ones notice the love of a grandmother.
One great-grandson full of wisdom beyond his years when he spoke,
“Today grandmother, you are a vision of loveliness.”
Forming a line in front of your window, each family member added silk roses for the vase bouquet you’d enjoy days after your perfect day was a memory.
Though not the princess banquet we would have prepared had we celebrated you at home, but a princess meal nevertheless to enjoy around family tables at home.
What ya thinking about mother?
I’m overwhelmed myself re-visiting this royal day weeks after the event.
So many details planned for the short time we were given.
Over-looking the party from your front row seat, the staff overwhelmed as well, soaking in the love from a family giving back honor due to their matriarch turning eighty.
But I think most impacting were those close and intimate moments at your window, sharing one on one through the phone with those needing a moment alone with you, even if for a minute never noticing the separation of glass.
On display the emotion from your faithful friend of decades.
Then were the kisses from your window, with you looking back at your great-grandchildren to receive their childlike affection.
Even you and I were able to pose for a mother-daughter picture, capturing and blending two generations together.
Heard from our mother’s window was the chorus of Happy Birthday sang twice. Princesses get an encore you know.
Gathered for a family portrait are lives that have been changed because of a Godly life well lived from one birthday girl blowing out eighty candles on her cake.
You are many things to many people; mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, cousin and friend.
But you are simply mother to me.
Through your eyes I hope the impact of your life was in full view of your window.
You were beautiful wearing your princess crown.
Through mother’s eyes, my heart believes you saw and thoroughly enjoyed a perfect day; the best birthday gift a family could have ever wanted for you.
You are loved mom beyond words.
When that stuffed negative report does emerge from that drawer as it will, always remember God’s love letter to you,
“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy- think about such things.
Phillippians 4:8 NIV
Even through a mother’s eyes on her perfect day.
Apples of Gold Encouragement 