October 19th, 2011 → 9:08 am @ Lea // No Comments

“My heart
Leaps to be gone into my mother’s bosom.”  – Pericles

My mother-in-law is a very nice, very sweet woman.  I love her, I really do.  But she isn’t my mother, and being around her as much as I have been lately just makes me miss my anne (“mother” in Turkish) terribly.  If only my mother could tickle my baby’s toes, if only my mother could pick him up and tell him a story, if only my mother could kiss him on the head and pray for his health.  The 12th anniversary of my mother’s death is coming up in a few days, and it still hurts as much as ever…