This Year Mother’s Day is One Week Earlier
Dear Friends,
10 days ago, I thought it would be a nice idea to send my mother some flowers at Mother’s Day, May 9th. So I went in the Internet to my online flower shop and checked Mother’s Days flower bouquets. They were beautiful, but nothing really touched my heart. So I checked the other offers, and suddenly a stunning bouquet of a dozen large red roses popped up. A beautiful heart shaped tin box with filled chocolate was attached. It looked just gorgeous! Then my little voice in my head started: “No, this is something for lovers, not for moms.” And then I saw, they are only available tll April 30th. Ok, enough resonable reasons to forget about it. I looked for something else, and one minute later I jumped back to the roses. They looked so incredible precious and beautiful.
Why not sending them just a week earlier, when she’s not expecting it, what a great surprise. I just needed to order a card together with the flowers. The Mother’s Day cards were not yet availabe. They only offered: I love you, Happy Birthday, Thank you, Get well, and something without text. My first thought: nothing is fitting. Well, “Thank you” would be ok. But it didn’t feel appropriate, just very reasonable. But what else: There was this very coulourful “I love you” card, with hearts of red roses on it. It was so corny/mawkish, and in English. No one in my family would ever send such a printed emotional card. Then I thought of picking the neutral card and writing something nice on it.
And then my hand clicked on the “I love you” card. My little voice said, perhaps she will laugh about it and feel embarassed (as I did, picking it), but still she will like the flowers and the chocolate. I wrote in the card: Dear Mum, this year Mother’s Day is one week early. I don’t remember the next sentences, it was something about thank you for everything, included my dad and ended with a big hug. I dated it as delivery on April 30th.
Yesterday my Mum called me in the afternoon. She cried so much, she couldn’t even talk. I said, “Oh my God, Mum, what has happened?!” She cried, “We got your gift, this incredible flowers and your card. Dad and I had not expected something so wonderful. We are sitting here togteher at the table looking at it and are crying, because we are so happy!” I got tears in my eyes and said: “You deserve it.” She whispered, “Thank you, thank you.” We wished eachother a wonderful week-end.
I feel so rich, and so grateful. My life is fullfilled. I’m so happy that I sent this gift, yes it was a gift between lovers, and I love my Mum and my Dad, and they love me. Transformation turns the world into this magical place.
Thank you so much Ariel & Shya and all of you, for making this possible.
Love,
Stefanie
