Many of you may not know this, but my relationship with my mother has always been a strained one. We can get along for a few hours, but that's about it. Well, she's been in Europe for almost two weeks now (she left before me) and ventured her way down from Scotland to where I'm at so she could see me. I was quite apprehensive about it due to our past but decided to go along with hanging out with her for awhile.
Originally, I had planned on only having lunch with her but something told me to just spend the whole day with my mom, so I did. We had quite the adventure. First, I showed her how to use the bus/tram system and we took it up to a pizzaria I really enjoy. Before we got there, as we were walking, we run across this guy selling pretty jewelry he made from twisted wire. We spent time with him, talking, buying jewelry when he made me a free, special pair of earrings and later after we had eaten, he caught my mom as we walked by and made her a ring.
Afterwords, she didn't have another ticket for the tram/bus so we went out looking to buy some but all of the shops were closed so we had to hope I could find some on a tram because some of them have machines where you can buy them. Thankfully, the first tram that pulled up had one but I had to stay on there and get off at the next stop since it takes awhile to buy them from the machine. It was quite the adventure we had together.
Then, we went to a grocery store, bought some vegetables, went back to my apartment and cooked dinner together. We had a real good, adult conversation for once and it was really nice. As she was leaving, she came in for a hug and for the first time in my life, I didn't pull away or shrug it off. I felt this need to just hug her with everything I had. We did this a second time as she walked out the door. After closing the door, I just cried. It was so good, that after praying about it endlessly, my relationship with my mom is starting to heal, thanks to the Lord our God. He has shown me that through time, He will heal all with his love. Even thinking about it now I'm brought to tears.
It was a very good experience and an awesome day. If any of you have problems with your own parents, please, pray to God to fix it because He will. And you will be so grateful for it.
Originally, I had planned on only having lunch with her but something told me to just spend the whole day with my mom, so I did. We had quite the adventure. First, I showed her how to use the bus/tram system and we took it up to a pizzaria I really enjoy. Before we got there, as we were walking, we run across this guy selling pretty jewelry he made from twisted wire. We spent time with him, talking, buying jewelry when he made me a free, special pair of earrings and later after we had eaten, he caught my mom as we walked by and made her a ring.
Afterwords, she didn't have another ticket for the tram/bus so we went out looking to buy some but all of the shops were closed so we had to hope I could find some on a tram because some of them have machines where you can buy them. Thankfully, the first tram that pulled up had one but I had to stay on there and get off at the next stop since it takes awhile to buy them from the machine. It was quite the adventure we had together.
Then, we went to a grocery store, bought some vegetables, went back to my apartment and cooked dinner together. We had a real good, adult conversation for once and it was really nice. As she was leaving, she came in for a hug and for the first time in my life, I didn't pull away or shrug it off. I felt this need to just hug her with everything I had. We did this a second time as she walked out the door. After closing the door, I just cried. It was so good, that after praying about it endlessly, my relationship with my mom is starting to heal, thanks to the Lord our God. He has shown me that through time, He will heal all with his love. Even thinking about it now I'm brought to tears.
It was a very good experience and an awesome day. If any of you have problems with your own parents, please, pray to God to fix it because He will. And you will be so grateful for it.
Love you all!
Ciao,
Anna
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