GREAT READS → MAKE HER DAY Issue 878 · September 16, 2021

All Together Now            

"I’d love to have a family reunion over Shabbos, fully catered so that my mother can relax like a queen and just enjoy being with us"

All Together Now            

 

Made Her Day

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My mother

 

After all my mother has done for me and my siblings, I want to give something to her. When I ask her what I can buy her after a Yom Tov or after she spent time helping me, she always says “You coming to visit is the present.”

My sister passed away several years ago. Since then, I believe that our family values each other more than the average family. We know the feeling of loss. We won’t ever have our complete family together until Mashiach comes.

My parents are the strongest people I know. They continue to function and be normal, happy people even while a piece of them is literally in the ground. I’d like to arrange for my parents to spend quality time with all of their children.

We’re from out of town, but all of us married couples live in Lakewood or New York, far from my parents. I’d love to have a family reunion over Shabbos, fully catered so that my mother can relax like a queen and just enjoy being with us. Being with her children and grandchildren is my mother’s ultimate enjoyment.

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