[tamor]

I've been thinking about Mother's Day and what I would write since I first saw this thread.

Mother's Day will definitely take on a new meaning this year as I get to say Happy Mother's Day at least one more time. I know none of us are promised tomorrow, but when I sat with my mom in the doctor's office last August and listened to the doctor say the word cancer, it was too much too soon. I lost my older sister to cancer four years ago, my daddy to cancer just 13 months later - and he had only known he had the disease for six weeks, and as we sat there, praying for the best but fearing the worst, I thought, "Oh no. Please Lord, not again."

But God is a great and marvelous God. My mom has gone through her chemo with the strongest drugs because she has inflammatory breast cancer. She just finished her last treatment yesterday and we go to the surgeon Tuesday to find out how the mass looks now and set up surgery. And my mom has handled it all wonderfully. I look at her often and think, who are you and what have you done with my mother? She is negative by nature, but has kept a very upbeat and positive attitude through the whole ordeal. She wants to live and not die. As I said, God has given me at least one more Mother's Day to honor my mom and I for one am thankful.

I'm going to go to church with her tomorrow-the Baptist Church that I grew up in, and I am going to be proud to be sitting there with my mother.

I love you, Mom.