Happy Birthday Neal

Neal would have been 57 today.

Fifty seven seven years ago May 11 was Mothers Day. For many people it is a difficult day. I usually shed some tears but also have some wonderful memories of the man who made me a mother. This year I was in Indianapolis for the weekend with Whitney, Ty, and Banks. Karsten drove over Saturday to join us. We had a wonderful day at church and then out to eat at one of my favorite restaurants, Seasons 52. Banks made me this cute flower pot with his feet prints.

When I got home last evening, I continued gathering things to put in the Bridgman city wide garage sale which is this weekend. I went into a closet that I hadn’t been in for a couple years. It had a lot of my scrap booking supplies and rubber stamps for card making. I pulled out a container with the stamps to price them and found a love note from Neal. Before he was sick, Neal would write on children’s valentines and hid them in random places for me to find. So before he died, Neal wrote on several Valentines and had the boys hide them around the house. Much to my surprise and delight I found one in with my stamps. What a special gift for Mother’s Day! Neal was so thoughtful, always thinking of other people.