Wow, I really missed my mom tonight. Sometimes this feeling comes out of nowhere and it's like a wave, very sudden and intense and then just the same, it loses it's intensity and washes back quickly into the other more dormant emotions. It would be so nice just to talk with her face to face...but I know she knows.

This is a painting of her that hangs in my grandparents house. She and my uncle had it done for my grandparents anniversary when they were in college. I think it is one of their most treasured possessions.