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We all have defining moments in our lives…those days when something happens and you tin can never go back to the way life was. I clearly remember what would be my very Commencement defining moment.

I was 10 years old and domicile from school with a fever. My Mom ALWAYS pampered me when I was home sick. This twenty-four hour period was different. Her friend Shirley was coming over to stay with me. It's funny how accepting I was that this was normal, as information technology wasn't for us. My mom ordinarily would never leave me domicile with a neighbor if I was sick. My parents explained that they had a meeting in Brooklyn with my Mom'due south sister nearly their childhood domicile.

My parents left and Shirley and I had a slap-up 24-hour interval together. She made me egg noodles. I tin can't remember what nosotros played. I can't think what nosotros chatted about Merely I can clearly recollect tasting EGG NOODLES for the very start time and thinking my Mom needed to get on board with this.

My parents arrived home late that afternoon. I was excited to see them and ready to give a total report on the egg noodles and hear virtually their meeting. We all sat down in our den to catch upwardly. They looked serious, they couldn't hide their fear. I felt information technology right away. It was strange. My Dad offered that they really weren't meeting with my aunt nearly the business firm. I remember feeling and then confused as they NEVER mislead us. He and then went on to say that they were in NYC to see a special doctor who diagnosed my Mom with acute leukemia. I had never heard of leukemia UNTIL just 1 week earlier when I was at my friend Patti's house watching the film "Eric" with her family. The character Eric was a high school and higher star soccer actor and he died of leukemia. I conspicuously call up sitting on her shag carpet in front of the Tv set crying my optics out. It was so sad. And now my Mom has THIS horrible affliction. I blurted out "Is Mom going to die?!?!"

My Dad was an honest man. He could not humor me. With his voice not bad, he answered "We hope not." We all hugged and cried. In that moment my Mom who I ever looked at every bit this strong, funny, loving, party planning lady seemed fragile. I wanted to protect her from EVERYTHING to continue her here forever. Egg noodles seemed so unimportant now.

The next x months were tough. Toughest on my mom as she became weaker and weaker and sicker and sicker from the chemo. She remained in the hospital more than she was out of the hospital. We barely saw her. It felt so strange and foreign to how we used to live. My Dad gave us daily updates on her claret counts. We kept shut runway of them considering we knew if they were at a certain level she could come dwelling. We lived for those rare occasions when she was able to come up abode. And so, our new routine was this…we'd wake up, go to school, have dinner with my Dad and so he was off to NYC for the evening to stay with my mom. He'd come up home late at night, go to sleep and be off to work by 6AM to practise it all over over again. Every bit sorry and depressing as this all sounds, the one light in all of this was our friends and neighbors who rallied to make sure we never had dinner alone. It'south merely a meal. Does it really affair? My Dad could've ordered pizza for us every night. Neighbors could have dropped food off. The BEST prescription for a scared and lonely kid is the care and condolement of friends and family. Most EVERY night we ate AT our next door neighbors house, the Ryans. They had 6 children of their own and made room at their table for the four of us. It was a political party!!! We were e'er close with the Ryans but you tin can only imagine this feel glued us together for life. They loved us and we loved them. Mrs. Ryan would tease us when we were eating at someone else's firm for the evening "Oh, you're non joining us." She really would look disappointed. When I think back to how she pulled dinner together for 12 most every dark I Marvel at her grace and generosity. I could go on an on about this family and what they meant to us but I need to get dorsum on rails…

My mom was weak, tired and very sick but e'er kept the most amazing attitude. She believed she was going to get amend and "beat this." She prayed and prayed to God and Saint Therese the Little Flower. She asked everyone to pray for her. She believed that if you said this prayer for five days in a row and saw a ROSE on the fifth day, your prayer would be answered. You tin only imagine how hard we prayed and how eager we were to see roses. Sadly, I think being disappointed that I wasn't seeing roses on the fifth day of saying this prayer. Nosotros even so never gave up hope.

My mom didn't either. She fought hard until her body just gave out from all the medicine. I did not get to say expert by to her. I tin can't fifty-fifty recall the VERY last time I saw her but I exercise remember one special evening we spent solitary, non long before. It was Parent Instructor Conference week at Winnicomac uncomplicated schoolhouse. My mom laid in bed weak and unable to nourish my conference. Mr. Block, my 5th grade teacher, had suggested they could do it over the phone. When the phone rang, I excitedly answered it and handed information technology over to my mom so left her sleeping accommodation. I eavesdropped from my room and I call up how her vox changed with pride "Oh, thanks Mr. Cake. Oh, cheers Mr. Block." She kept maxim information technology over and over with such love and pride. She called to me equally soon as they got off the phone. I laid down next to her in bed. She couldn't wait to rattle off all the sweet things he had to say almost me. (I'thousand sure if I was a tyrant in that location was no way he was going to ruin this poor adult female's nighttime… lol)

After my mom passed abroad my Dad planted a rose garden in our backyard in her laurels. I used to tease him and inquire why he hadn't done it earlier. We picked out a cute headstone for her grave and had roses carved into it. Roses would soon become a sign throughout my life that my Mom was with me. They always seemed to pop up at the Verbal time I'd be looking for a sign of comfort or reassurance.

Fast forward xix years…While I was on a vacation in the Caribbean I met Peter. We had spotted each other from across the puddle deck. Later on one blissful week, we were falling in dearest only initially had no program for how we were going to pursue this long distance relationship. I lived in NY. He lived in Michigan. We met upwards in Chicago for our offset reunion and thankfully discovered that our "island spark" was all the same at that place and it wasn't merely a vacation allure. After that, nosotros coincidentally both had trips to New Orleans planned for the same weekend. It would exist the first time there for the both of the states. I was going to visit a friend who had been sick and he was traveling there with family unit. We decided to meet up. He showed up at my hotel room with a box. I opened the box and within was a ROSE he had carved from chip material that he cleaned up off the floor of his wood shop. It…was…perfect. I paused for a moment thinking nigh how I had never shared my "ROSE" story with him. He went on to say that he had never made one earlier simply "something" (or maybe it was "someone") inspired him. I truly believe he was heaven sent because he was everything I was always looking for and I call up, no I know, my mom approved!

THIS wooden rose has moved with me 4 times and it resides on the side of my bathtub in our master bathroom. I love to look at it EVERY day as it reminds me to keep looking for the signs. They are ever in that location!

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