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Mother's Day Scare

As we all know yesterday was Mother's Day all around the world..for those of you who are mothers, a belated Happy Mother's Day to you all.
I spent the day with my family. We joined my husbands family for dinner at a local steak house. Enjoyed the company more than the food and just felt blessed to be with my children as a lot of people don't have that option.

After dinner, my daughter and I prepared to make the 1 hour drive to her college to pack her things into my van and get them back to the house. Her father usually is a big part of this detail, but as you all know he is down for the count having just had surgery on Monday.

Before we left town my husband insisted that my daughter fill her car up with gas..She told him that she had plenty of gas in her car..but he insisted nonetheless that she fill it up. So we headed to the station of his choice to top her car off with gas.
During this time of the day and in fact all night we had a wind advisory..and it was indeed blowing hard. We went to the Shell station and I parked at the end of the parking lot and watched her fill up. While she was in the store pre-paying for her gas.. I noticed that the awning above the gas pump was swaying..back and forth some two or three feet with the wind. She was parked directly underneath it..and nothing could have been scarier to watch than my only daughter standing under that awning while it swayed. I told her to hurry and get out from under it, but she could only pump as fast as the pump would go. This was the most surreal event I have been through in some time. I just knew that that awning was going to come down on her head and kill her. I was literally sickened by watching it sway and seeing my precious child standing under it. I was never so relieved as when she got in her car and got out from under that awning. It made me literally sick and for the hour drive to her college I could not shake the feeling. As I type this, I can still see this event playing out in front of me. I know that bad things happen to good people all the time, and you read this kind of stuff on the news. I just could not imagine anything worse happening to me, than to witness this awning falling and killing her instantly.

We got to the college and might I say that we made small work out of our big task. She and I worked beautifully together and moved all of her things into my van in less than an hour. We marveled at what a simple task this was sans my husband. He is such a control freak, he would have so stressed us out with making everything perfect and it would have taken twice as long.

After loading all of her things into the van, we set out for Applebees for a little treat. We had quesadillas and then a molten chocolate cake..yum. I drank three glasses of tea and enjoyed my time with my sweetie. She bought my dinner and paid the tip. This was her first real effort at a Mother's Day gift for me and I could not have been more thrilled.

Mothers of daughters..don't fret because they are growing up..There are good things to come as they mature into wonderful, thoughtful young women. It is so wonderful to sit across from a person that you brought into this world and listen to them talk. To have such a good relationship with her is an added bonus to motherhood.

Drove home through hard rain and a major wind storm. Listened to some beautiful music and drove home with a good feeling of love in my heart for my daughter. She will come home on Thursday for the summer and hopefully she can secure a small job to help her fund her trip in January.

Now to my son..he is 17 and he spent the night out with friends on Sat. Sunday a.m. I received a text..that is our mode of communication..that said Happy Mother's Day I love you! That made me melt of course. He joined us for dinner and gave me a big hug. Of course as soon as he ate he was whisked back off by his friends. Boys this age are so into their social circle. I was glad that he took the time to share dinner with me at least..ha.

Well that was my eventful Mother's Day. I now have the task of unloading that van full of her things and doing a multitude of laundry..I know she could do it when she gets here, but that seems silly. Have a great day everyone..and hug your children..you just don't know how long you have them.

peace :) shemelts