this picture was taken the day before my mother married my dad ... that is her mother, my mummu, in the picture with her ...
my mom is only 18 years older than i am ... much of the time, i feel like she is my big sister, rather than my mother ... we’ve weathered difficult storms together ... and i’ve watched her weather her share of personal ones as well ... she has been beaten and battered, but she is a survivor ... the energizer bunny that just keeps on going ...
she is a talented artist ... and a published author of a dozen or so books ... one of them was even made into a play and performed in Toronto ... some of her poetry has been made into hymns ... and she still finds time to write a column for a North American Finnish newspaper ... her writing is all done in Finnish ...
she’s computer literate and submits her newspaper articles via e-mail ... e-mail also happens to be our favourite form of communication ... the written word, with pictures attached!
her writing has not made her rich or famous ... but i would like to think that she has found contentment in doing what she loves to do ... what she needs to do ... that is the way she feels about her writing ... it’s a need ...
she loves the Lord ... she loves her children ...
she is still a story that is being written ...
happy mother’s day, Aiti!
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