{"id":36572,"date":"2014-04-08T07:35:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T11:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=36572"},"modified":"2018-04-08T04:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T09:52:26","slug":"happy-anniversary-mommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-anniversary-mommy\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary Mommy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mom-1968.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-44213\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mom-1968.jpg\" alt=\"Mom 1968\" width=\"110\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today is my parents&#8217; anniversary. It is also the 18th anniversary of mom dropping her body and leaving the earth plane. My mom and I were close, speaking every day, never arguing, she was my best friend. I always thought I&#8217;d freak when she passed, which she did suddenly on April 8, 1996, of her first heart attack.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t freak.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t grieve.\u00a0 I felt there was no separation.\u00a0 I still don&#8217;t feel she&#8217;s missing from my life.\u00a0I&#8217;ve ever been a sentimental person. I&#8217;ve never been family oriented. I am more a loner. \u00a0I love my family, but family life is not for me. In the two days between her heart attack and passing \u2014 which we did not know was going to happen \u2014 \u00a0she was heavily medicated and could not speak, yet managed to open her eyes very wide once in order to look me in the eye and let me know she was still in there.\u00a0 I talked to her and I whisper-sang to her. \u00a0 <!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Her lips looked dry and I asked if she wanted Chapstick.\u00a0 She pursed her lips and I put the Chapstick on her. \u00a0It was the most holy moment I ever spent with her. I love you, Mommy! Have a good day floating on your cloud playing a harp or rocking in your chair on your porch with your cat Lady in your lap, whatever it is you&#8217;re doing Up There or Over There. I can&#8217;t say you&#8217;re missed because I know you&#8217;ve never left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/14781-2\/\">I remember Momma 2011<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=8916\">I remember Momma 2010<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=2865\">\u00a0I remember Momma 2009<\/a>\u00a0(Poem: If you could see where I have gone)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=15889\">A Friend and I Talk About Dying and Easy Transitions<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/Andrea\/End_of_Death_As_We_Know_It.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The End of Death As We Know it\u00a0 \u2013 What The Crossing Over Experience\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/Andrea\/End_of_Death_As_We_Know_It.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Was Like, As Reported By Those Who Made The Transition<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-anniversary-mommy\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Happy Anniversary Mommy&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-anniversary-mommy\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-anniversary-mommy\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-anniversary-mommy\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Happy%20Anniversary%20Mommy&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-anniversary-mommy\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my parents&#8217; anniversary. It is also the 18th anniversary of mom dropping her body and leaving the earth plane. My mom and I were close, speaking every day, never arguing, she was my best friend. I always thought I&#8217;d freak when she passed, which she did suddenly on April 8, 1996, of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36572"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46964,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36572\/revisions\/46964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}