Channel surfing brought me to this programme called "Mommy Diaries". This episode was really poignant. 2 mothers were preparing themselves as well as their children for their demises.
One mother was busy building up her memory box for her 2 teenage girls, with a 'mother's manual'. In it, she wrote about her opinions on school, career, sex, dealing with misfortunes and other things that are normally 'caught' from mothers, rather than being 'taught'.
Another mother had sewed a patch work blanket for her older one, and now she felt the urgency to sew one for her younger one. She also decided to marry her long term partner, father of her girls, so there would be a great happy event for the children to remember.
Both mothers are dying of cancer, neither sure how much time they have, except that it is limited. Both trying to put on a brave face, for their children, for their partners; both breaking down, lamenting lost opportunities of seeing their children graduate, or going to their proms, or just seeing them getting off the school bus.
They also had little 'luggage tags' on which they wrote down each and every single thing they remember something about their children, like on one of the tags, the mother wrote " You got a great report card in your 6th grade, well done! Keep it up!" These sweet memories help the mother to tell the children she loves them, one more time, and they help the children to remember the happier things and happier times when the mother is no longer around.
I feel a tinge of sadness watching the programme, but it does spur me to remember to tell my children how much I love them one more time, and perhaps start my own memory box for them, for we don't know when we are due to meet our Creator.
Death really puts things into prospective doesn't it?
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