Steven Colbert pays beautiful tribute to his mother, Lorna Colbert, after her passing. You may want to watch this when you’re free to blubber without anyone watching.
She made a very loving home for us – no fight between siblings could end without hugs and kisses, though hugs never needed a reason in her house. Singing and dancing were encouraged, except at the dinner table. She had trained to be an actress when she was younger and she would teach us how to do stage falls by pretending to faint on the kitchen floor. She was fun.
She knew more than her share of tragedy, losing her brother and her husband and three of her sons. But her love for her family and her faith in God somehow gave her the strength not only to go on, but to love life without bitterness and to instill in all of us a gratitude for every day we have together.
And I know it may sound greedy to want more days with a person who lived so long, but the fact that my mother was 92 does not diminish — it only magnifies — the enormity of the room whose door has now quietly shut.
What can you appreciate right now about your single parent family or stepfamily, while you have it?
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