Happy birthday to me……. that’s right- my birthday was this fall. That’s one more reason that I love the fall.

A week before my birthday I was visiting my Mom and helping her with some chores. This particular day I was gardening in the front yard.

I’m fortunate to be able to visit Mom about three times a month, each visit usually for a couple of days. We both enjoy the visits and Mom has plenty of projects around the house that need attention.

I love helping Mom, she loves having me around and things get done. Definitely a win-win situation.

If the project I’m doing happens to be outside, Mom will always come out to say ” hi” or ” how you doing”? ” Can I help”,  “would you like lunch?” You know, loving Mom stuff. And almost always she ends up with a rake in her hand helping.

This one day things were a little bit different: Mom is always bright and cheerful but today she was a little quieter. (It’s interesting to think back on a time when Mom knew my moods when I was little, and now I’m knowing my Mom’s moods).

So….. Mom comes outside to find me and has a stressed look on her face, maybe hurting in her heart a little bit also. She says to me; “Rog, I know that next week on your birthday you will be out of town fishing in the mountains and I have a birthday card that I want to give to you today, but I can’t think of anything to write on it. I’ve never been good at writing in cards and saying what I feel”

So I said to Mom ”what is it that you want to tell me”?

Mom says; ” I want to tell you how much I love you and how much I appreciate you and that I hope you have a wonderful trip with your Princess”.

So I said, while giving her a big hug ”you just told me”………”and you said it beautifully”.

She looked up at me so relieved. The pressure she had put on herself was lifted. Her smile returned on her face and in her heart. She told me she loved me, I told her I loved her and she went back into the house.

That evening having dinner together she gave me a birthday card. I opened it up- it was a beautiful card, fishing decorations and printed lines about fishing. The reel (ha ha) treasure is and what mom wrote……….

Dear Roger
The fish are jumping- the deer grazing the breeze gentle- the sun warm and your Rita by your side!!
‘All is well’

God has truly blessed me and our universe mightily through you- thank you God!! May this birthday be the start of more joy, love and peace than ever before as you spread it around to all- that is your nature!!

I’m so grateful for you! And I love you very much
Mom

Wow…….. such beautiful words of love to read, (through misty eyes).
I said to Mom ” thank you for the beautiful card and the loving, from the heart birthday wish”.

We hugged each other.
The feeling of love was so great.

So, who is more blessed, me? While witnessing my Mom express her love for me through beautiful words of love? Or is it Mom who is more blessed by being able to express herself through beautiful words of love? Or is it the one that has given us feelings and words of love?