A Gift of Gratitude

Tomorrow is Mother's Day and for most mothers it will be a day of family celebration. For me it no doubt won't be much different than any other day, which is not necessarily a bad or sad thing.

So many holiday's have become media events and it really bothers me. I may be just a little strange, but I would rather have my children remember my efforts to give them life than to purchase a gift of flowers or candy or whatever is the appropriate token of appreciation in today's world.

To me, the gift of respect and gratitude is all that is necessary. As children, we often don't stop to appreciate all that our mothers or grandmothers did for us. I just dug up a photo of my mother and her mother, taken not too long before they both died. It caused me to remember all the little things they both did to make my life happy. It also caused renewed gratitude for their efforts.