A lot of people just celebrated Mother’s Day. This was the second Mother’s Day without our mom Essie Norrell and it was the second time I enjoyed the day with friends who also have lost their mothers and have no children. No one sends us a Mother’s Day card and we don’t have a biological mother to celebrate with. Once again it was great day with a small group of ladies and I will continue to do something each year with this special group.
My father passed in 1982 and I miss him so much. When I meet people who don’t know their father, I can’t imagine what that might be like. I had so much fun with my dad. He taught me how to put together lawn furniture, how to read directions and how to paint a room. My dad had a great sense of humor and made me laugh and took me to the Police Circus, the Ice Capades and the baseball game. When I look back on this I guess these were daddy/daughter dates. It sure was fun to go out with my daddy. He could bake and cook and he would make a meal look just like it looked in the magazine. He could take leftovers and make magic out of them. You would not recognize the dish once he put his touch on it. We would often ask daddy what is this? And he would say, “girl remember that ham we had at Easter well this is it.”
I think my daddy James Norrell would have been a great contestant on “Chopped.” He could have taken the ingredients in one of those baskets and turned it into a fantastic meal. I think he would like these cooking shows that are so popular right now and I know he would like the Home and Garden channel, HGTV.
If your father is still living and if you know your father acknowledge your father on Father’s Day and every day. Take your dad to a movie or dinner or do whatever he likes to do. If you have been estranged from your father because of something someone else told you about your father perhaps you should do a little investigation and find out the real story. I think it is so unfair when the child is used as a pawn also when the mother tells the child negative things about the father and the father does the same about the mother. The child wants to love both parents and does not want to get involved in your mess.
I always think it is so odd that Mother’s day is so important and that Father’s Day is sometimes minimized. It takes both to produce the child. If you are fortunate enough to have either parent or both celebrate them and if your parents are in their golden years and there are things you want to know about them or your family ask those questions now. It may soon be too late.
(Email the columnist at debbienorrell@aol.com)
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