All month long, MomsGetReal™ has been talking about love and relationships. Hopefully, our thoughts, advice, and insights have been useful to you.
Today, however, the only love we can think about is the one we lost five years ago today…our mom.
We learn first about love from our moms. They protect us and care for us and allow us to stretch their bodies out of shape and make it so their bladders never quite work the same – and they do all that before we’re even born. Then, once we arrive, moms provide the security and safety to get us through those first months when we can’t fend for ourselves. It is through the love of our mothers that we first experience the world.
As time goes on, moms make their decisions using one overriding factor: the desire to protect us from harm and help us avoid the hurts they know will come our way as we start to explore the world. Everything moms do they do from love, and through our moms, we learn how to become better people – and eventually, better moms. Our mom, Linda Lund, was that kind of mom.
We can’t write much about her today, because these five years later, it still hurts to miss her so much, but we know that we would not be the moms we are today without her.
We love you, mom!
