Gloria's Gift

Roses and Teacups~Beautiful Gifts for Women

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Gloria's Gifts

You're absolutely right. The colors don't match the rest of my store at all...

But these are my mother's colors, and this page is about her. Red, white, and blue are for a girl born on July 2nd, for a wife so proud to be married to a Purple Heart veteran, for a woman whose taste was patriotic in her choice of knick-knacks, home decor, floral arrangements, and clothing.

My mother is still alive** and still giving gifts. She is in a clean, cozy bed where she sleeps much of the time and is coherent little of the time, although I believe that some part of her is having a marvelous laugh at the expense of the medical establishment who gave her a few weeks to a few months to live~four years ago.

My mother has a brain tumor. Before her illness, she gave the gifts of laughter, love, wisdom, attention, time, poetry, stories, encouragement, knowledge, support, beauty, and nurture, to name a very few. Since her illness, she has given the gifts of laughter, love, wisdom, attention, time, poetry, stories, encouragement, knowledge, support, beauty, and nurture, to name a very few. Some things didn't change at all, especially in her first years of illness.

In fact, her first years of living with a brain tumor gave us an incredible appreciation of life, love, family, and forgiveness, taught us new lessons in the value of flexibility, service, and teamwork, and offered us examples of living with forethought, dignity, and courage.

In the past year, she has given the gifts of smiles, kisses, sparkly-eyed recognition, occasional sweet words, and warm presence. What gifts are yet to come...I wonder.

My mother served her husband and three children with selfless devotion for absolutely as long as she was able. She volunteered decade after decade with "special needs" children, was a true friend to many, a matchmaker, a book lender, a note writer (see the post, "Queen of the Handwritten Note," in my blog, Teacup Talk, and a supreme celebratress and commemoratress.

Roses and Teacups truly would not exist if not for the delight of gift giving, gift wrapping, occasion marking, and special day celebrating which my mother instilled in me. I know that if she were well, she would be so thrilled at my success, so fascinated by every aspect of what I am doing and learning, and so delighted at the goodies that she could get from me wholesale!

Mom, I miss you, I thank you, I love you!
Thank you for the gift of my life...I shall try not to waste it!

**Note to our readers: My mother, Gloria G. Miner, passed away at 4:00 A.M. on Sunday, January 28th, 2007, my 50th birthday. She gave me one last gift while on the earth...she acknowledged my birthday and let me know that she would be fine.

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