I thought I would share “What We Noticed Today: A Mother’s Day Reflection”. Life doesn’t go as planned most of the time. Just ask David who went took me to dinner. Then stopped at QT for a drink for Gerrald and came to the car to find me crying.
By evening, the day began to soften again. Mother’s Day has moved through the house, through the porch, through the small spaces where we live. There is a quiet that settled in when the day was almost complete.
This is the moment when David and I sit together and reflect, not in a structured way, but in the simple telling of what stayed with each person throughout the day. Come and join us on our front porch and lets chat for a bit.
Remember children might talk about something small because the neighbors’ children are playing outside and it was a moment that made them stop. Something they had never noticed before. We know Charlie isn’t home.
But Ariana Brandie’s teenage daughter might not say much at first, but often she remembers more than I expected when she is given space to think back through the day. Parents might notice that what they appreciated most was not a specific activity, but the feeling of slowing down together.
Most mom’s do not need to be told what the day meant. They feel it in the way the house has moved differently around her. In the way the moments were shared instead of managed. In the way she was allowed to simply be part of the experience instead of carrying it.
Nothing about this day had to be large to matter. It only had to be noticed. And as the evening settles in, what remains is not a checklist of what was done, but the memory of how it felt to be together without rushing.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
