Happy Birthday, Linda

There it is!

The Gift

A small flower pot, red and white checked, with a picture on one side and the inscription " I Love You" on the other. You might say, it is nothing special.  I would beg to differ with you.....it's the little things that warm a mama's heart.  Let me tell you about this little pot.

I am the mother of four wonderful children, God has been so very good to me. They all are loving children and are not at all hesitant to say they love us. That is very special.  When they were growing up, lots of "special" art projects went to grandmothers, Sunday School teachers, wonderful loving eighbors, and close friends. I always encouraged those gifts. You see we were most fortunate in our friends. They loved our children...and that is not always the case.

Well, we moved when Linda was in the fifth grade. Her older sister, Mollianne was a senior in High School. We moved from the flatlands of Southeasat Missouri to the mountains...of Colorado. We were
excited and loved the mountains, however, leaving friends is never very easy on anybody, but children reflect their parents attitude, and they made the move with grace and tho' it was not easy, they were happy girls! I think they understood that we knew we were doing God's will and families are meant to be together.

We arrived in Colorado in January, at semister break. We moved in. Buster Girls enrolled in school soon as possible. The girls started school and begin to make new friends and learned new and different customs that are the life in Colorado.
The fifth graders were well into planning a Valentine party, and doing a gift for a friend. Linda was very lucky, you see, she had one of the nicest teachers, who knew just how to handle a "tom boy" fifth grader, moving in from out of state with a accent and a big voice! We were so grateful.

Valentines Day....Linda was one week from a Birthday! A Big Birthday. But Valentine's day, she came in from school, in a run. She had a surprise....for ME! That little flower  pot, and you know, for the life of me, I cannot remember what was in it... if it had anything in it....it just said:

I LOVE YOU

Thirty six years later, Linda is all grown up.  She has three girls of her own.  She has  "things" they have made and given her...and she knows what it means to a Mama's Heart.


That little pot sits proudly, with red roses and every time I look at it I see a little "dirty face" and big blue eyes and I feel bug hugs that said those three little words:

I LOVE YOU

 

{This post is the beginning of We Love Linda week on Generation to Generation.  Linda's birthday is today and we are going to celebrate all week long.  Be sure to check back and see how we are celebrating.  Happy Birthday, Linda!  We love you. ~Mollianne}

 

~Charlotte

Charlotte and Linda