{"id":3227,"date":"2009-05-08T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2009-05-02T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T15:06:30","slug":"remembering-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/remembering-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"love-you-mom\"<\/a>Mother’s Day is quickly approaching — May 10th, in fact.\u00a0 No doubt most of you have already planned your brunches and\u00a0 bouquets in celebration of dear old Mom, and those are always appreciated.\u00a0 Still, when I think back over the years, the mother’s day gifts that I most loved were those which were homemade:\u00a0the cards with crayon pictures, the lilacs picked fresh from the garden, the attempts at breakfast in bed.\u00a0 Still, one thing I never did for my own mom \"s-daughter1\"<\/a>(or mother-in-law) was to write a thank you letter.\u00a0 Now that they are both gone, I’m wishing I had.\u00a0 Wishing that I’d worried less about fixing\u00a0 a fancy meal with the good china and the white tablecloth in the dining room,\u00a0wishing I’d spent less time looking for some sentimental card at the Hallmark store, and wishing instead that I had taken a few moments to write down in my own words how I felt.\u00a0 To say thank you, to share a funny story, even, perhaps, to\u00a0tease a little, but just doing\u00a0it would show I cared.<\/p>\n

If you think you might like to write your own\u00a0letter to\u00a0Mom, here are some books that might\u00a0 give you some inspiration:<\/p>\n

I Love\u00a0You, Mom! A Celebration of our Mothers and Their Gifts to Us<\/em><\/strong>.<\/a> This\u00a0includes essays from celebrities like Larry King and Daisy Fuentes.<\/p>\n

I Am My Mother’s Daughter: Making Peace with\u00a0Mom Before it’s\u00a0Too Late<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Iris Krasnow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mother’s Day is quickly approaching — May 10th, in fact.\u00a0 No doubt most of you have already planned your brunches and\u00a0 bouquets in celebration of dear old Mom, and those are always appreciated.\u00a0 Still, when I think back over the years, the mother’s day gifts that I most loved were[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[453,155,596,248,595,131],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-celebration","tag-family","tag-letters","tag-love","tag-mom","tag-mothers-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-Q3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}