I recently attended funeral services for a dear client of mine Mrs. Kathy Broich. Kathy was not only a client but my girls reading teacher and friend. She was a wonderful women with a great zest for life that was shortened by ovarian cancer. At Kathy's funeral a poem was read that was written by her.
It talked about how we are always in a hurry, telling our children to hurry up and get dressed, hurry up and get in the car, hurry-up, hurry-up...! I realized that I have become one of these moms who can be guilty of the"hurry-ups" and not enough of"taking time to smell the roses"!
A couple of weeks ago when all of the beautiful wild flowers began to bloom I commented to my girls how pretty they were. Since then, I have received several bunches of wild flowers from my sweeties! Today, Sabrie brought me one little single wild flower. I was working at the computer at the time she interrupted me, I first thought of saying "just a minute". Suddenly, I reminded of the "hurry-up" poem. I stopped what I was doing and said "WOW, what a beautiful flower sweetheart"! I asked her if I could take a picture of this flower and asked her to place it in a small vase so we could all enjoy it"! Her sweet little face just lit -up with satisfaction.
Thank you Mrs. Broich for reminding me to take time to appreciate all of life's gifts! Big and small!
Jennifer
