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Sharing time with my family, especially my parents, at this time of my life is certainly sweet. I don’t take them for granted anymore and know that time is limited with them. The days will go by quickly, and the older I get and they get, I know I have to savor the moments when they come.
Paying tribute and honoring my parents is very important to me at this time of my life. I don’t plan to move very far from them at all, if I can help it, when I find another home of my own one day soon. We are bonded and we need each other.
Family is forever. I couldn’t have made it this past year without them. 
My mom’s birthday and Mother’s Day are both in May, and Father’s Day and my dad’s birthday come around in June and July. Sharing family time with them is special. My mom and I have breakfast together every morning at the table, eating cereal and sipping coffee, each reading the paper, knowing the other is there. It’s very comforting. 
My dad and I have enjoyable conversations about blogging and life. He is still my defender, my strong and capable dad, whom I’ve always looked up to.
Celebrating them and the time I have with them is very important to me right now, and I’m doing just that.
It makes me happy to see my mom smile from the bedroom and bathroom renovations we’ve been able to do these last few weeks. I’m overjoyed to do this for them, and it makes me happy that they are sharing in benefits and perks that come along. I enjoy spending time with them, getting their opinions, hearing wisdom shared day by day. So, how do we share and celebrate those people in our lives who are so important to us?
We savor and enjoy the everyday moments of life, letting them know how important they are to us.
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My parents know that I love them very much. My mother’s birthday is this Saturday & my husband & I are making her a gift…one that represents her little family. And at the same time, my husband & I are spending time together. 🙂
We’re military and don’t have the luxury of living close to family, so making the effort to maintain and build relationships comes through phone calls, e-mails, hand-written notes, skype, sending lots of photos, and spending some of our leave and $ to go visit them.
Good morning Rhoda,
I know exactly how you feel! I am in my 50’s too and am blessed to have both of my parents still living …54 years of marriage! It makes my heart happy just appreciating the simple things we can still share together, a laugh, a meal together, hearing about THEIR day and so on. It is a far cry from when I was a teenager and felt they did not know anything which is what I am now experiencing with teenagers of my own! Aaaagghhh!
Beautiful post, I’m a mom of three young children and part of me can’t wait for my kids to get older so they will understand what I do for them! LOL, I still love them young too 🙂
Dear Friend,
My hat is always off to grown children who have grown wise
enough to know what a gift God has given them to have a parent
still alive, much less two.
As we all know, God gives good things to His children,just like your
parents do for you. Loving and honoring our parents gives depth to our lives, for it is then that we see God with most clarity – and He
gifts us back with the promise that all will go well with you because
of how you love them.
Don’t enter me for a thing in this give away – this topic is so sensitive to me – I just wanted to give you a virtual hug – and know that I do pray for the plan God has for you to unfold in its own time. Today is the day and time for you to be just where you are.
What I (or many of us) wouldn’t give to have one more day in what was
the normal routine in their childhood homes with their parents .
Words aren’t available to express the deep emotion that brings.
Much love, patti
I think the best way to pay tribute to the ones you love is to make sure they know you love them and care about them deeply. Don’t take them for granted, ever. I try to always tell my friends and family how much they mean to me. I don’t know what I’d do without them!
Thanks for the great giveaway opportunity.
Morning Rhoda, my good parents have both passed away, but I have an aunt still living that I have always been close to. She is 83 and bedridden now. She lives an hour from me, but I try to go see her once a month, and when I am there we play beauty shop, and I give her a manicure or a pedicure, or both.
Wow, that made me tear up. I love how your honor your parents. My dad passed away last year at the age of 80, but I was able to tell him what a great dad he had been. I didn’t have a real close relationship with him as I would have wished, but I would say to anyone to pray that the Lord gives an opportunity to say honoring things to your parents, even if things weren’t ideal growing up.
I am very close to my parents. I am an only child so they definitely spoil my 2 children. My Dad takes my son to school everyday, and my Mom has lunch with my daughter at school everyday. I show them I appreciate and honor them by telling them often how I love them, how I could not be the parent I am without them, visiting them, making specials meal for them, and cards. Believe it or not, my Dad loves cards and keeps all the cards from the kids and I in a file in his desk.
I miss my parents so much. I am working on a scrapbook of my father’s life. It has been very hard to complete. I love cooking my mother’s recipes. In fact, I have put together a small very personal cookbook for my daughter and nieces.
I tribute the ones I love by baking for them! I love to bake and nothing brings everyone together like a homemade chocolate cake!
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The older I get the more I realize how blessed I am to have a wonderful husband and two wonderful sons. I try to do little things for them every day, because I believe the little things matter the most. I am a teacher, but decided to be a stay at home mom for my boys. I am so grateful that my husband’s job allows me to do this. I love being able to prepare their favorite meals for them and take them to their many activities. In the mornings, after I have taken them to school, I go into their bedrooms. This is my morning prayer time. As I make their beds and pick up their clothes, I pray for those sweet boys that I love so much. At night, right before bedtime, I sneak to their rooms and get their beds turned down and lamp turned on. I think it is very comforting for them to snuggle into their beds knowing Mommy has already been there and sprinkled their bed with love. Growing up, God blessed me with wonderful parents and wonderful grandparents. During the past few years, all of my grandparents have passed and just last year, my precious Daddy went to be with the Lord. My Mother had breast cancer 3 years ago, and praise God she is cancer free today! Family is so important, and sometimes I think people don’t realize this until it is too late. Life is too short and too unpredictable to put off showering your loved ones with all the love you have. Many Blessings, Mary Tom
I love my parents so very much and feel blessed to have them still in my life. As I am now a single, working mom, they help in any way possible. I couldn’t do it without them. From mowing my yard, to just giving a kind word–they are always there. I love spending time with them and I always give them hugs and kisses and let them know that I love them. As I get older, along with everyone else, I realize the importance of taking time for the important things–family!!
Lately I have found myself wondering the same thing. After losing my Grandmother at 83. I watch my parents, inlaws, children, and my husband and I get older. I have come to realize that the best way to honor eachother is to spend time together loving and supporting one another.
When my kids get a good report card, we take them out to the store so they can pick out a gift.
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My sweet Mom is 87 … and I am 59… how the time does fly… Amazingly, she still drives hereself to church every Sunday where she is called “Grandma” by all who know her! My Dad passed away several years ago at the age of 75…. My siblings and myself have certainly discovered that spending “everyday” ordinary moments together are the absolute best!!!! Still sitting together at church, worshipping together after all these years…. we are very blessed!!!!
I’m 32 and even to this day, I still tell my parents I love them, and my much younger brother too! My husband and I have this rule about spending time with family. If we don’t have anything else planned already, we always get together. We don’t make up excuses not to be with them.
What a lovely, thoughtful post. I am not good at expressing myself in words, so I think I pay tribute to those I love through service.