Feathers 🦚 Hearts 💗 and Mothers 👩
Every year, this particular week is always a difficult one for me. It's the week leading up to Mother's Day. (I promise there will be celebration in this post also!)
If you don't know the story, I lost my mom over 18 years ago. I was only 26 at the time and she was a very young 63 years old. My mom Faye, was a wonderful, loving, and stubborn woman! And I am so grateful that she was a stubborn as she was.
Because of that, I got an extra 20 years with her. Let me explain...
When I was 5 years old, she was diagnosed with cancer. Specifically, Hodgkin's Disease. Which apparently was one of the "good ones" because it had a pretty good remission rate back then. Now we are talking almost 40 years ago, so technology and medicine were not what they are today. (And yes, we still have a LONG way to go in terms of cancer prevention and treatment).
By the time I was 6 years old, she had gone through...