I made my mom cry today....

....but in a good way. 

Last night, I made homemade pies with blackberries that I had in the freezer from berry season last summer.   I decided to make one for my mom.  Her and her husband are on a very fixed income and are kinda low on groceries until the end of the week.  So, I took it down to her today, and she was so surprised.   Later on, she gave me a call, and told me that she had a piece of that pie and when she took a bite of it she started crying...   I was like "WHY?"  And then she reminded me of a little something from my childhood.  When my brother and I were kids, there were times that we didn't have a lot to eat.  So when  we had dinner or some special treat, mom either wouldn't have seconds, or wouldn't eat the last piece of something.  We always asked her why and she said that she just wasn't hungry.  She reminded me that years later, my brother and I figured out exactly why she did what she did.  It wasn't because she wasn't hungry.  It was because she always made sure to save whatever there was for us kids so that if we were hungry, we could have it.

And when she took a bite of that pie today, she said to herself "I don't have to save any of this today"  And then that made me cry... But, it wasn't tears of sadness.. I was so happy that I was able to make her day a little bit brighter...