ZOOM!!!

 my surprise Mother's Day flowers from Nick

 

 Zooming is such a modern day miracle!  Yes, I know that makes me sound like an old lady, but at 72, I guess I am entitled.

Courtney -oldest child and only daughter- set up a mother's day/ birthday zoom with all five of my kids, my husband and my sister .

 I don't see the kids very often.  They are all adults and their lives are busy.  The are scattered around the US, so none of them or is is able to get together in person very often.

When we had a houseful (did we really do that??) we saw the kids ALL the time.  Eating together, watching TV together, attending back to school nights and teacher conferences.  We went to concerts and sports driving everyone here and there. 

I enjoy my selective memory that allows me to fantasize about  how wonderful it all was.  Well, truth be told, it was not always fun.  It was exhausting and often frustrating.  Sometimes it was the kids, sometimes it was something or another concerning their schools, teachers, nasty neighborhood kids.  Messes.  Homework.  Laundry.

Do I regret having kids?  No.  There are time that I wish things were different- like contacting me and writing all the time.  But, wait, that would mean that they were clones of me and that's not who or what I want. And of course I wish that I had been more patient and kind all the time and I was not.

I love my kids.  Of course I do.  But the depth of my love and the intensity of how I feel about them is beyond words.  And each one of them is so unique and different than the others.  But they are all ours.  Nick's and mine.  They are Sherwoods for better or worse!

Happy Mother's Day