A Christmas To Remember
Robert Paul Seigler, me, and Mary Louise Hooker Seigler
My Parents
My mother died on November 27, 2000 of a heart attack at the age of 63. She had been having dreams about her sister, my Aunt Aileen, who had passed away on Feb.8, 1985 at the age of 51 from a heart attack too. My father, Robert "Paul" Seigler, had passed away 2 days after my Aunt Aileen, on Feb.10, 1985. He was 52 and died from a heart attack also.
In my mother's dreams, she was with Aileen at a mall and they were trying to find someone who would let them use the phone because they didn't have any change with them. My mom wanted to call my dad so that he could come and get them. She finally found someone who would let her use the phone and she tried calling him and suddenly, he was there with them. He told her to go with him. That is all that I remember of what she told me about her dreams. I told her that she had better be careful because I believe in dreams and so did she and my Aunt Aileen did too. She told me that she would be careful. Then a week or 2 later, she passed away. I believe that her dreams were a sign to her that her time was near.
On Christmas morning of 2002, I got up early and put the food on to cook and then I went back to bed. I had a dream that someone was knocking on our front door. In the dream, I went to answer it and I opened the door and my mother was standing there. She came into the house and she told me that she wanted to come and see me on Christmas day. Then she gave me a hug. I woke up and I had a really warm feeling all over and I was crying. I had never felt like that before and I haven't since then either. It seemed so real to me. I do believe that she really was there in my dream and that she really did come to see me on that Christmas morning. I believe in miracles and I feel so blessed to have had that happen to me.
The love that is between a mother and daughter, or any parent and child, can never be destroyed, not by death or anything else, and it lives forever. Our loved ones who have passed away live forever in our hearts and in our memories. We must keep them alive by telling our children about them and never forgetting them. The pain from the loss never goes away completely, but remembering them helps to ease the pain a little.
By Charlotte Anne Seigler Miller
March 30, 2004