My mom was a very special and unique person. She was young and beautiful, full of life and fun. She was my best friend and she was very close to me and my brother Joshua. She was always there for us. I had these visions that we would be two really cool old ladies together(with Joshua being a little old Paw-Paw) and experience all of life with one another, because she was just a teen when she had us. I'm sure it was in some ways like growing up together for her. She never said so. I just know that now that I am her age I don't feel very old at all. She was only 33 years old when she lost her second battle with cancer. She was much to young to leave us, with my brother only 15 and me 17 years old at the time. She didn't have an easy life. There was a lot of hardships and heartache for her. Her inner strength through her short life is an inspiration to not only me, but to my children through me. I wish that my husband and my sons could have known this awesome woman that I'm so proud to call my mom.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
--Robert Frost 1923
In Loving Memory of My Mom,
Billie Lambert
December 20, 1959-May 1, 1993
