:: a stORy wOrth reaDing ::

it's mother's day..(10th May 2009)

and it's my 2nd year celebRating it...

BeiNg a mOther.. ;p

i received an email few days before

MOTHER's DAY...

which I attached below..

and it tRiggeRed..

how i've been so selfish nowadays..

because I only utter the words

I LOVE YOU ibu..

only when there are occassions..

i'm sorry ibu..

i really love you..

thank you for the greatest upbringing

you've given me

since I was born until now..

there's nothing that I can do

to repay you...

and if i've hurt you..

please forgive me..

cause it was never my intention...

I LOVE YOU..till the end ;p

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to the persON whO shaRed this stORy,

thaNk yOu..it reaLLy tOuched my heaRt ;p

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After 21 years of marriage,

my wife wanted me to take

another woman out to dinner and a movie.

She said, 'I love you,but

I know this other woman loves you

and would Love to spendsome time with you.

The other woman that my wife

wanted me to visit was my Mother,

who has been a widow for 19 years,

but the demands of my work and

my three children had made it possible

to visit her only occasionally.

That night I called to invite her

to go out for dinnerand a movie.

'What's wrong,are you well,' she asked?

My mother is the type of woman who suspects

that a late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign of bad news.

'I thought that it would be pleasant to spend some time with you,'

I responded 'just the two of us.

'She thought about it for a moment, and

then said, 'I would like that verymuch'

That Friday after work,

as I drove over to pick her up I was a bit nervous..

When I arrived at her house, I noticed that

she, too,seemed to be nervous about our date.

She waited in the door with her coat on.

She had curled her hair and was wearing

the dress that she had worn to celebrate her

last wedding anniversary.

She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an angel's.

'I told my friends that I was going to go out with my son,

and they were impressed,' she said, as she got into the car.

'They can't wait to hear about our meeting'

We went to a restaurant that, although not elegant,

was very nice and cozy.

My mother took my arm as if she were the First Lady.

After we sat down, I had to read the menu.

Her eyes could only read large print.

Half-way through the entrees,I lifted my eyes and saw

Mother sitting there staring at me.

A nostalgic smile was on her lips.

'It was I who used to have to read the menu

when you weresmall,' she said.

'Then it's time that you relax and

let me return the favor,' I responded.

During the dinner , we had an agreeable

conversation nothing extraordinary but

catching up on recent events of each other's life.

We talked so much that we missed the movie.

As we arrived at her house later, she said,

'I'll go out with you again, but only ifyou let me invite you.'

I agreed.'How was your dinner date?'

asked my wife when I got home.

'Very nice, much more so than I could have imagined,' I answered.

A few days later, my mother died of

a massive heart attack.

It happened so suddenly that

I didn't have a chance to do anything for her.

Sometime later, I received an envelope

with a copy of a restaurant receipt from the same place

Mother and I had dined.

An attached note said:

'I paid this bill in advance.

I wasn't sure that I could be there;

but, nevertheless, I paid for two plates,

one for you and the other for your wife.

You will never know what that night meant for me.

'I love you, son'

At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time:

'I loveYOU'and to give our loved ones the time that they deserve.

Nothing in life is more important than your family.

Give them the time they deserve,

because these things cannot be put off till some 'other' time.

Somebody said it takes about six weeks

to get back to normal after you've had a baby...

somebody

doesn't know that once you're amother,

'normal' is history.

Somebody said you can't love the second child

as much as you love the first...

somebody

doesn't have two or more children.

Somebody said the hardest part of

being a mother is labor and delivery....

somebody

never watched her 'baby'get on the bus

for the first day of kindergarten...

or on a plane headed for military 'boot camp.

Somebody said a Mother can stop worrying

after her child gets married...

somebody

doesn't know that marriage adds

a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings.

Somebody said a mother's job is done

when her last child leaves home...

somebody

never had grandchildren..

Somebodysaid your mother knows you love her,

so you don't need to tell her...

somebody

isn't a mother.