Christmas Flowers For Mom-Nov, 2012

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Ruby Tuesday 2_ (for Nov 27,2012) Christmas Flowers For Mom

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~~Christmas Flowers For Mom~~

~Missing you always~

Love,

Junie

Midweek Blues~April 25, 2012-Blue flowers for Mom

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Midweek Blues ~ blue flowers for Mom

On Monday my husband and I took  flowers out for Mom.

It was a rainy and gloomy day, so it was a quick visit, but I wanted to go since

I had last been there just before Christmas. I was dismayed and saddened to find that her flowers which I had taken  then had been removed.

This place removes flowers if they become faded or blown out of the one vase that's allowed!

(the vase goes down inside the  flat monument when not in use, leaving just the flat and bare plaque!  It just made me sad to see that)

I hope to be able to get out more often  to insure this not happening again.

Still miss you, my sweet mom!

Love,

Junie

Picking flowers for Ma-Ma

(posted on Face Book-Jan 2012)

June Kellum

January 28

Our granddaughters (Joy's and mine) at age 2...
What a fun day!!

Ma-Ma had more little pink flowers than she knew what to do with! ;)

 

 

 

• Bonnie Pinkston what a wonderful picture -- wonderful memory, Junie :)

  January 28 at 8:46pm

   

   
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  June Kellum ‎:) Yes- it truly is! Joy's little Chey and our baby, Alli were very close to each other and spent a lot of time together for the first few years of their lives- and spent a lot of happy times together at my house with my mom-their great grandmother! She adored those babies-as they did her! :) Good memories for both Joy and me!

  January 28 at 8:51pm · 

 

In Loving Memory of My Mom...(Face Book)

June Kellum  

(from Face Book)

January will always be a sad time for me...

My sweet Mom's birthday was on Jan. 6th and we lost her on January 27th. 9 years ago.

 

Always in my heart, Mom.

Love you ,

Junie

Mom's Christmas flowers-2011

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Mom's Christmas flowers-2011

The month of December is 'getting on with it,' and I'm falling behind with everything - even more so than usual! 

  I decided I needed to get Mom's Christmas flowers out  today, before time completely got away from me!  Charles was happy and willing to take me, and we had an enjoyable time together, though, of course, it was shadowed with some sadness.  Still, I felt better, having brightened that little spot up for this holiday!

~Love and miss my Mom~

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Junie

Christmas memory of Mom-

Christmas memory of Mom

June Kellum   (from Face Book)

♥▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬♥ஜ۩۞۩ஜ♥♥ஜ۩۞۩ஜ♥▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬♥ There are moments in life when you wish you could bring someone down from Heaven. Spend the day with them just one more time, give them one more hug, kiss them goodbye or hear their voice again, or even a text. One more chance to say I LOVE YOU. Copy and paste in remembrance of someone who is not here.

Love You, Mom!


Junie

Yellow Flowers for Mom-(Repost from Junie's Place)

(repost from Junie's Place)

Monday, July 25, 2011

Mellow Yellow Monday ~Yellow flowers for Mom~

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~Flowers for Mom~

Today my sis and I took  some yellow flowers out for Mom!

You can see on the marker that she's been gone now for a long time, but Joy and I agree that some days it still seems so recent...that day in January, 2003 when she had to leave us!

I can close my eyes and let my 'Mom' memories come and it's almost like having her here with me again!

I'm glad I can still feel her here with me!

  I hope it never ends.

Junie

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Mom and "Fashion Frocks"~

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Recently I posted this picture of my sister and me on FB as my profile picture!  :) 

I like to change my pictures there often and it's usually without a predetermined idea or plan... I just go looking in my family pictures! I'm often drawn to the Way Back times of our lives. It was that way with this picture change.

Seeing the picture again brought back memories of those little dresses we were wearing! We didn't have a lot in those times so I suppose that's why I remember this so vividly! They were both of a cotton  material. 

(Cotton Pi cay???...

I know that's not the correct spelling...:(    )

My dress was a combination of white and aqua and my sister's was, mostly, baby blue. Mom always managed somehow to get pretty things for us - bless her!

OK-Remembering our dresses of this time brought back memories of our mom  selling dresses for a company called "Fashion Frocks." It was one of those deals where you could sell merchandise to family and neighbors and friends from your home! You would be supplied with  catalogs and sample swatches of the clothing materials to show your customers. It seems like Mom was into this for quite some time and I remember her being involved in this from the mid 40's....when I was very young.  I liked looking through those books and being able to feel the material of the dresses pictured. Mom would sometimes use some of the money she made with the sales to buy herself a new dress.

I'm not sure if this company carried childrens clothing, though; so I'm not sure where Mom bought these dresses for my sister and me!

I looked up Fashion Frocks online and found a lot of info is out there about this company that came wandering back into my memories today!  Check out the link!

  Notice the size of the women's waists-and the lengths of their legs in these illustrations!  LOL

To this day I have never been able to  reach the status that would qualify me as some folks idea of what a woman is supposed to look like!  Have you?  ;) - OK-In my youth I DID have a small waist....but everything else was small too ....so I guess that didn't count for much!  :)  At my tallest I was barely over 5 ft tall!  :)

Mom, too, was a little lady...but always beautiful!  

This is my mom and dad in 1950.

This is my mom and me in 1972. 

Love,

Junie

Mom's Christmas flowers

 (post from Junie's Place-Dec 6, 2010)

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Today my daughter, Tina, and I took flowers for our Ma-Ma.  It's always a bittersweet event-bringing Mom flowers but I always will-as long as I'm able.

  Joy, my sister, was unable to come with us because of a medical appointment with her husband. 

Tina and I also did quite a bit of shopping today. I appreciated her taking me out because I really do not like driving a lot.  We had a fun day Christmas shopping -and just being together for a few hours! Oh-and we had both breakfast and lunch out-lol- We really made a day of it!  :)

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Here we are at home and later with Mom's flowers.

Love,

Junie

Fall Flowers for Mom~ (From Junie's Place)

Sunday, September 26, 2010

~Fall flowers for Mom~

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Today Charles and I took some silk fall flowers and colorful leaves for Mom.  I hadn't changed her flowers since my sister and I were out in the spring...

(Somehow summer slipped away) 

Someone had added a bunch of beautiful Hibiscus flowers  since we were there and since they still looked fresh and pretty I just added the fall colors to them!

(Mom would love them together anyway )

In January it will be 8 years since Mom left us and I can honestly say she has been in my thoughts every single day of all those years.

In case any of you have doubts of who the greatest love is, in your life, take a lesson from me...You'll have no greater love than your mom.

(at least not in this mortal world)

Don't wait until it's too late to say those words to her and to show your love in your actions!

 

I hope I expressed my love in words and deeds to my

dear mom....

What I would not give to have a hug from my mom one more time-and to see her sweet smile!

This statue stands near Mom's place. It's a comfort for me to see this when I go out there.

  

This picture
(below)shows the spot where my nephew and grand niece  lie...so near to Mom.

( "Ma-Ma" -Paul's grandmother and Brenda's great-grandmother)

They died together in a motorcycle accident after Mom passed away.

(Thankfully-in this mortal life- Mom was spared the heartache of losing those loved ones and also, Phil - Paul's brother)

So much sadness, visiting out there...Well... but really- there is no escaping it, anyway!

I guess the only way NOT to hurt is Not to love at all- and I wouldn't want that!

Junie

Labels: family, Flowers, love, Mom, Mom's Flowers, sad

Sepia Scenes ~9-8-'10~ Doves

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This pair of Doves is a part of Mom's Memory Garden.

Love,
Junie

Thinking of my mom and my dad

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This is in the little garden spot I have made for Mom in my back yard.  The rose bush I have planted there is blooming!

Isn't it strange how the sorrow never leaves you after losing a loved one ~ your mother or father ~ a child ~ a lover? Losing anyone close to you, no doubt is hard!

I have only experienced losing my mom and dad of the ones closest to me.
(Oh-many others who I loved dearly I have lost also... and it always hurts)

We lost Dad at a much too young age (59)and at a time when I was a young wife and mother and immersed in that all consuming role. Of course it hurt terribly, just the same...and through the years I've felt a sadness that he never knew some of his grand kids; only one of my three kids were old enough to remember him.(Chis was 4-Tammy was 1 and Tina came 2 months after Dad's passing!)

  We had Mom another 40 years, to age 94! (Mom knew her Great-Grands and even some Great-Great Grands!) All those years and memories are added on...Somehow it makes it harder~not that my daddy wasn't loved as much as Mom...but I think my circumstances when Dad left us and the time of my life that I was in ~ my age (23) ~ sort of served as a cushion between me and my grief.

Truth be told, though, I often dream of both my parents~(Dad having been gone almost 47 years...and Mom will be 8 years in Jan 2011!)

And even though the memories and dreams make me sad I'm glad I have them.

After seeing the stepping stone in the garden today Mom has been in my thoughts more than usual. Here are some of the little things of her's  that I have on a shelf in my family room.

Mom and her 5 'kids!'
The doves were hers.

I gave Mom this when Charles and I were first married!

Mom had this fascination of exotic places- especially Hawaii-not that she ever traveled to any of them. I was happy when I found this little plate for her, many,many years ago!

She donated to this organization (Salesian missions) for a  very long time and  loved these little books  of inspirational poems.  She gave us these all through the years...I have many among my poem books but this one was in her room and it ended up here with a few  of her other things.

A gift from my mom to me.

Our Family

(Love you always, Mom and Dad)

Junie

Thinking of my mom

 What a beautiful song.

For you, my sweet mom!

Love always,

June

Yard Art ~ July 1, 2010~ (Mama's gift from Phil)

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This owl was a gift to my mom from a grandson.  It seems to be hand carved out of a piece of hard/heavy wood. Mom kept it for years on her front porch, among her potted flowers.

Today it  perches in the little memory garden I have for mom, next to my kitchen window!

This seems the perfect spot for this owl and I know Mom would be happy that he's here! 

I'm reminded every time I 'm near the garden  or glance out the window- of both my mom and my nephew!

(both have passed on)

Junie

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My mom in 1995

Today I awoke thinking of Mom as I, often, still do.

Today is the 7th. anniversary of her leaving us and it still seems strange and unreal, not to have her here! The sadness will never leave us.

This is a well remembered pose of our 'Ma-Ma' -talking on the phone to some of the family! :) She always wanted to keep in touch with those she loved!


Remembering Ma-Ma
~always with love~

Junie