"A Different Kind of Mother's Day Celebration This Year"
A Reflection with Dr. Cevey
I gave Dr. Day a break from her video post series this month because I felt like I wanted to write about my Mother's Day weekend this year and how it was different than what it's been like from the last twenty years. With my daughter's arrival in February 2005 and then her brother's arrival soon after in May 2006, and living half a country away from my own parents, my Mother's Days the last two decades have been about me being the one getting celebrated. Last year I wrote a post about my feelings about that Mother's Day, how I felt about it being a true gift from my kids of time spent with me doing what brought me happiness at the time. This year, though, neither of them were able to be home with me, as the weekend coincided with the weekend before final exams for my daughter at Baylor and as my son was still a thousand miles away at college in China. Of course, I did get happy Mother's Day wishes from them via phone/video chat, but I didn't get to spend the actual day with them.
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However, rather than being something to be sad about, I realized that it gave me the opportunity to shift the focus back to celebrating with my mother. Prior to my parents retiring to San Antonio from Maryland a couple of years ago, for over three decades straight, I was never able to celebrate Mother's Day with my mom in person because of where I was for college, and then med school, and then residency, and then where my work took me. This year, it was just she and I. For the weeks leading up to Mother's Day weekend I racked my brain trying to come up with a specific activity to do together with her, but I never could find something that I knew both she and I would be similarly excited about. We ended up browsing a gathering of shopping booths of various local artisans in Boerne and then heading back into San Antonio to visit a couple more home decor stores. It was maybe three or four hours of leisurely relaxation without any specific goal, very unlike how I normally have to be and frankly how she had to be when she was still working (I definitely am my mother's daughter!), and combined with the dinner my husband treated us to the evening before, was just really wonderful quality time, much like how I felt about my time with my kids the previous year working in my flower beds. I just hope that this year wasn't the first of three decades of not getting to celebrate Mother's Day physically with my kids, though <crossed fingers!>
I had all my office staff try to get pictures of them with their moms and, for those of us who are mothers, pictures of us with our kids to make a Cevey Pediatrics Mother's Day photo collage. I hope that all of y'all had amazing Mother's Days with your children, and if your own mothers are around, with your mothers, too, this past year and for more to come!
Sincerely,
Dr. Cevey
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