It's Kind Of A Big Deal

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This old gal…

Always loved May Day…made baskets as a kid…popcorn…candy…cups with the pipe cleaner handle…

Carried on the tradition with those girls of mine…a craft project…a family project…a make someone smile today project…

It was kind of a big deal…

Made the usual old people new month comment…today’s May 1st…can’t believe it’s May already…blah blah blah…and then it hit…

May 1st is May Day…and one of us forgot about it…completely…never once crossed the mind…and for mama me…this realization…

Was kind of a big deal…

A sign of change…moving on…letting go…the heartbreaking reality that those traditions…dying Easter Eggs…holiday sing-a-longs…filling a shopping cart full of May Day basket goodies…

Those things that made being us…so fun…are done…gone…gone to the point…that they might even be forgotten…

But all it takes is a photo…that daughter of mine making her own Easter baskets…the Easter Bunny coming for that kitty of hers…

Traditions…not forgotten…but passed along to those you love…who in turn…will pass them on to those they love…

And that right there…is kind of a big deal…
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And those daughters of mine…agree…