Mom's Birthday Card

I have a special looking box where I keep blank notes and cards so I can send them to friends and family on special occasions. Right before my sister’s birthday, I retrieved the box to pull out one of those cute and funny birthday cards to send her. But this time, nestled in between these new birthday cards, I found a card my mother had made and sent me many years ago.

My mother had been an artist and I recognized her card immediately stuck in between these new cards. This card was from one of her paintings, the one she called “Jay on the Tractor”. She loved this painting because she felt it was honoring her former spouse, my dad, doing what he loved; farming.

I thought it was strange I had placed one of my mothers “used” cards in my box of new cards.  I also thought it was strange I had never noticed this before, since my mother had died many years ago. But there it was.

I opened the card and out dropped a crisp $100 bill with a little yellow sticky note on the money with my mother’s handwriting “Love ya!” My mother loved sticky notes to communicate her messages and here was yet another little yellow sticky note.

I immediately knew this money was supposed to be for my sister's birthday and was from my mother to her.  After all, the painting "Jay on the Tractor" had been given to this sister and was special to her family.

I sent the money and a birthday card to my sister.  After she received it, we chatted about the circumstances of how the money came forward and how it was from mom.

It seems our mom continues to still be involved in our lives, even now.

Mom's Birthday Card