June 5, 2006
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Stephanie's Tribute to Lorena
I am here at school cleaning up my chaos as I prepare to change rooms. In the course of organizing and cleaning, I found the following poem that Stephanie had written for Lorena. Have I mentioned lately how incredible the women in my life are??? Lorena, you are loved and missed...
ABC’s Tribute to Mom
By Stephanie Thomas
A is for the AWESOME way you were a mom to me.
B is for all the BEAUTIFUL days we had at the Botanical Gardens.
C is for how you never liked CATS.
D is for how you DIDN’T ever give up on me.
E is for EVERY talk we had.
F is for the FIGHTS that got us mad.
G is for GOING shopping at the mall.
H is for making our HOUSE a HOME.
I is for how I never could mean “hate” – and how sorry I am.
J is for all the laughing and JOKING.
K is for bringing me plenty of KLEENEX when I was sick.
L is for I LOVE you!!!
M is for how I couldn’t ask for another MOM.
N is for how you never took NO for and an answer when it came to chores.
O is for OPENING my eyes to how grateful I should be and how beautiful I am.
P is for your huge PURSE you always had.
Q is for not QUITTING or giving up hope for me – and for you.
R is for how REALITY hit us so hard.
S is for Love and Loyalty, aka STEPHANIE.
T is for TALKING to you in the hospital -- when I knew you heard but couldn’t respond.
U is for the big UMBRELLA you loved to take to our soccer games.
V is for how you loved V-necked shirts and always wore them.
W is for WINNING the fight you are fighting now.
X is for X-treme you are now under – and the X-treme love I feel for you.
Y is for how YOU are the one who owns my heart.
Z is for all your ZEAL you haven’t lost.
Keep fighting, Lorena. Keep fighting and winning. We love you.
Comments (4)
Michael,
This is cousin Jean...just checking in. Have you received the photos? If so-were any of them new to you?
Dave and I are surrounded by school teachers. Two single parent teachers across the street and another single parent teacher next door. My neighbor next door teaches English as a second language. Quite a challenge when there are many different nationalities in one class. We get the scoop on what teachers are involved in much like what you are going through in changing your classroom.
I can relate so much to the poem written to Lorena. I watched my mom suffer the devastating effects of her stroke in 1997. It destroyed the Mom I knew but it never destroyed my love for her. A stroke cannot take the love away. She lost her battle August 16, 1997, twenty years to the day that Elvis died, and twenty years to the day that we moved into our home here in Louisiana.
Love and prayers,
Cousin
Jean
Darlin' Jean, I have been so remiss, and I apologize. I received the photos and papers!!! Thanks!!! MANY of them were new to me, and I shall get mine to you. You had asked about Audean Murphy and some other folks. No, they did not make it to Decoration. When I get some time to catch up, I shall try to catch up on my news to you. Again, thank you so much.
Michael, I wanted to stop in and see how you and your family are doing, and to say I love, and am thinking of you all all the time. I often think sometimes what you all are doing, and am always thinking how strong Lorena is, and how I admire that in her and all of you. Your family is the proticol of just a good family. I love reading your bolgs, it is like I can actually "see" what it is you are writing about, and I love that.
Also, some very dear friends of mine need prayer. They lost a loved one yesterday. I just want my friend Susie, and her husband Danny, and their family lifted up in prayer please.
Have a GREAT day, and I love you. God Bless
Hey Michael, that's such a beautiful poem your Steph has written.....wonderful tribute to her mother. I'm sure Lorena's gonna be awfully proud of her!!! Yes, Lorena, fight and win, we all love you!
:):) *hugs*
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