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With two kids getting married, two nieces graduating, a new book to write, and Hiram training for a half-marathon, spring\u2019s been busy. So busy, in fact, it was hard to squeeze Mother\u2019s Day into the mix. But it managed to settle comfortably into the small amount of space available.<\/p>\n

The kids couldn\u2019t come home because wedding showers and ceremonies have eaten up weekends and gas money. But they called on Sunday, and the sheer pleasure of talking to the amazing young adults they\u2019ve become and to the wonderful mates they\u2019ve chosen made up for their absence.<\/p>\n

Finding time to honor my mother was tricky too, since her granddaughter graduated from college the day before Mother\u2019s Day. She went to UNI with my brother\u2019s family for the ceremony and were too tired for any big doing the next day. So Hiram and I drove down and took her out for pie – except she hadn\u2019t eaten lunch yet so she had a patty melt while Hiram and I ate pie. An odd celebration, but it worked.<\/p>\n

Hiram\u2019s mother isn\u2019t with us, but the other day I looked out the kitchen window at the tree we planted in her memory several years ago. Memories of her vibrant, eccentric presence flooded through me, and I shook my head. For the first time, the tree looks more treeish than sapling. Has she really been gone that long?<\/p>\n

Our littlest crab apple tree finished blooming last week, the one Hiram and Anne planted\u00a0 for Mother\u2019s Day a few years back. It\u2019s not trying too hard to become a tree, being short to start with and not very ambitious. It\u2019s biggest claim to fame came last year when a flock of spring robins got tipsy eating the fermented fruit still hanging from it\u2019s branches. The tree strained under the weight of the birds, but remained upright. Kind of reminded me of Cindy Brady from the Brady Bunch, the youngest child in a big family determinedly trying to keep up with the bigger kids.<\/p>\n

The crab apple tree reminds me of all that\u2019s happened since it became part of our yard – Mom breaking up housekeeping after her Alzheimer\u2019s diagnosis, the healing and life changes our son has experienced, our self-conscious daughter blossoming into a confident woman, our neurotic daschund moving in with my brother\u2019s family, the birth of my bouncing baby book, my husband becoming a motorcycle dude at age fifty – all those things that squeezed their way into our unsuspecting days and made themselves completely at home.<\/p>\n

Kind of like Mother\u2019s Day squeezing its way into the busyness of our lives this year. I\u2019m getting used to it, becoming comfortable with it. This May, I wouldn\u2019t want things any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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