After Nearly 9 Years, I Still Miss My Mom as Though She Was With My Yesterday [Video]

Mom left us in September 2006, just as Michelle started her sophomore year in high school. Matt had graduated that spring from Erskine Academy. He came into the Maine Veteran's Home to show "Nana" his graduation gown before commencement. That was almost nine years ago.

It's a bittersweet weekend for me. Tomorrow we'll celebrate the day with Marie-Anne and our children. MAJ and I will remember our own mothers. Her mom passed away two years ago this coming August.

If your mom is gone, you'll be thinking of her just as I'll be thinking of mine. Now, I'm going to give you something else to think about. Something that may make motherhood, yours or hers, seem a bit more sweet. It might even make you stop and think how much a mother sacrifices for her children.

To me, this is something worth thinking about because, as trite as it seems on the surface, it's the connection that started it all. A connection that gave us all life. We shall always carry evidence of that bond for, even as the connection was broken at birth, it's an eternal link to the one who will forever be the first lady in our lives...our mom.