It's been months since I've written about my Mom (nearly 4 to be exact), the events of the past summer, and her passing. I have coped with her loss the only way I knew how, by submerging myself in working on my photography biz and being a Mom. Both roles have been blessings to have to keep me from dwelling on my loss, the sadness of how that loss occurred, and the emptiness that it created in my life.
Her Second Family (her co-workers from dietary and housekeeping to the doctors) sent my brothers and I the most wonderful tribute we could ever have wished for, and I had the pleasure of going to see it in early November, after it was completed. I took my three monsters with me on this incredibly bright and sunny fall day, and we spent an hour walking around the grounds of the National Mother's Shrine in Laurie, Missouri at Lake of the Ozarks. It is dedicated to all Mothers, and is a place of beauty, peace and reflection. www.mothersshrine.org
I had no idea it existed until we got the package from her Second Family, and as I read the letter from Gina, my eyes filled with tears, and I thought that they could not have chosen a more perfect tribute for her. I also got that familiar feeling of being proud of a Mom who had touched so many people with her kindness, and her gift of being a friend to everyone she met.
To the Second Family: thank you for being there for her when we could not; thank you for caring for her; thank you for loving her and being a family to her; and thank you for this timeless, amazing, beautiful, thoughtful, and perfect tribute to our Mom who was first and foremost a MOM:)
For those readers that didn't know her, from the first day of Grandmotherhood, she was not known as Grandma, but simply "Mema".
These are a few of the pictures I captured from that day.
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