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[GoneButNotForgotten]

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@06greatwife wrote:

When I was a little girl she would bake a white cake iced with pink frosting every year for my birthday. 

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it sounds like you had a loving, affectionate mother. Good on you--and her, too! :-)

[deja vu]

anxiety... regret... anxiety...

[RetRN]

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@NicksmomESQ wrote:

  I miss everything about my mom. She was pure love. Always there to help. She taught me how to be a strong woman.She taught me to always push ahead & not allow others to drag me down.She taught me that I was enough.I am who I am today because of her.I wear my mom's ring on my right hand every day to always keep her close.

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Thankfully my mother taught me integrity, honesty, humility, strong work ethic, need for a good education, caring for and putting others first. 

Being a strong woman, not allowing others to drag me down, or thinking that I was not good enough were things she knew I would learn on my own without having to be taught. 

[wilma]

@Jordan2 

My mom passed away in 2012 at age 88. 

My memories include...

Baking Christmas cookies with her as a child. Before she passed she gave me her cookie recipes. I still bake them and share them with friends and family like she did. 

I remember sitting quietly in the choir loft as she sang at church. She loved to sing and sang around the house too. I also love to sing, and I am the soloist at my church. 

She took care of me when I was sick, and I was sick a lot as a child, teen, and young adult. She was always there at my bedside either at home or in the hospital. When I was very young, she slept in a chair in my hospital room overnight once. 

My mom never knew a stranger. She loved to talk to everyone. She also loved to sew. She made the cutest stuffed animals and dolls for the church fundraiser every year.