One thing that my mother has always done perfectly well is to make us aware that she is there for us. She is present and not just present but has a constant presence. I don’t know if all mothers with very little to live on do this to make up for what others offer as physical gifts. In my own opinion sometimes parents with so many material things to give use them to make up for their absence or for the time they lose with their children. It’s an opinion and I said sometimes.
Anyway, this month two of my little brothers celebrated their birthdays. One made 12 and the other 11. They don’t ask for much and that could be because they also haven’t been raised with much just like myself. We got by and we still get by. We are not poor, just an ordinary working family. When I was growing up, my mother didn’t make cake but she prepared a big meal, bought me a dress; those large princess dresses with layers of cloth in different prints, we ate with our close friends and had a good time. We did stop wearing such dresses. I loved them as a child. I felt very special.
My brothers are used to the whole idea of cake, drinks, snacks and a few children from the neighbourhood having these with them. They are happy Everytime. Our mother puts every energy into this. She most times prepares the cake, (that is since she learnt to bake about 5years ago). She prepares the snacks with so much love and asks the boys what it is they want to eat for a big lunch on their separate birthdays. It is in the love with which she prepares everything and just her presence. It makes me feel like it’s worth a million gifts.
A great auntie of mine recently died and her children, my aunties said they missed her Sunday breakfast which she made for them as kids and the doughnuts she made on their birthdays.
I feel eternaly grateful for every little thing my mother has done for me and given to me. I don’t even feel like I missed something or envious of those who got grand gifts. It all came from the same part of our mothers’ hearts.
I believe with all my heart that my mother gave me everything she had and she is still pouring into me so much love from the richest part of her heart.
If you have a mother today, appreciate her. If she is in heaven watching over you certainly you have the best angel there could ever be.
Mother dear. 