Ron Harvey Moments in Time Date: January 7, 2025
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Today I sit here early this morning drinking my coffee thinking about what had just happening to me and my family, one of the hardest things to go through in life had just happen to us and that was to lose my mother, my Mom, she was 85 years old when she passed, my beautiful loving mom who loved each one of us all my brothers and sisters, and all her grandkids and great grandkids, the love that came from her was genuine she talked about them and asked me many times I wonder where he is or she is she was always concern about all of us My mom was a loving women she did not just talked about she loved you but she showed it (tears as I am writing this, and missing talking with her over the phone I would call her every other day and sometimes daily).
My mind goes back to when I was young going back to about 3 or 4 years old my mom laying by me and making faces and talking to me and making me laugh, I can only see her face that’s as far back I can remember. My mom always bought me the best of everything, the best clothes, the best toys and I did have the best toys I remember the Batman figures and the Superman figures the nice big truck, I mean those were the truck that were made out of steel not the cheap plastic now days, and how many of them did I have Wow! And all my brothers and sister we all had the best because my mom put us 1st in her life her concern was for kids, her family, both my mom and dad were hard working parents they both had jobs my Dad was working with the Navajo Forest Products Industries (NFPI), as supervisor and then later as a Superintendent over his dry kiln he too was a loving father His love for us was genuine His love never failed us through out his life. My mom worked in the food industry My mom worked for the school system in Navajo New Mexico the McKinley County School System, then later she went to work in Ft. Defiance, AZ. In the Window Rock School System, Apache County School System she worked there for over 30 years til she retired from her job.
My mom was very firm and so time harsh in her words, but that was only because we didn’t listen to her or make her real upset. Then she would sit you down and correct you, but that was only just a little fraction of her about 5% of her the 95% of her was full of life and love that was who she was, But the sad part of this is I lost over 20 years of my parents life, because the break down in our relationship, the constant arguments that I was having with my dad, I became so uncomfortable in my own home that one day at the age of 18 years old I left home and never went back, I knew my mom and dad but I really didn’t know them for 20 plus years (that in it self is a long story maybe I’ll write about that later)…but when I came back into the family was because of my dad and how God saved him and the talks that we had led me back home to my mom, My mom loved me she hugged me and cried over me, she loved me, she told me many stories, She helped me when I really needed help, We went out to lunches, the last 2 years of her life was a precious time for me with her, my kids became closer to her they grew to love her and she loved them with all her heart, she always ask for them and grandkids, Daxton would get on her bed and hug her (tears)… My momma, I wept as I wrote this, No one understands this feeling until you lose your momma, It’s good to let this feeling out that I don’t keep it inside me, the last thing she said to me on Monday December 16, 2024 as I called her on the phone, She said that her time is coming closer, she had a weaker voice that usual, I told her Mom don’t say that and that Christmas was coming. She said I hope they make it then I told her mom you'll make it and then she said to me I'm not afraid of death I know where I'm going and I'm gonna go meet your dad she came for little laugh, she said my time is coming soon then she said to me you in Navajo, go and finish the task that the Lord has given you that I know in her voice she was tired, then she said I have lived a good life I'm tired, then I told her OK mom I'll call you tomorrow she said to me OK, I said I love you mom and she said to me I love you more then I hung the phone up, but I guess that would be the last phone call we would ever have, alone she went into state of coma (sleep) and she would pass on December 21st at 11:30 am. We were on our way to see her and we were about 10 minutes away when she passed put my kids and my brothers/sisters my niece and nephew were there beside her when she passed, we were all there beside her bed cried, now that I'm thinking back I think this was the best way for her to go the people that loved her around her bed those that were those that live in phoenix, but I know her grandkids that lived way out couldn't make it that was understandable but for my mother to pass and her love woman's around her it was a hard thing to go through but also the best way for her and for us as a family, she loved the Lord with all her heart and she knew she was ready to go to that heavenly Kingdom, it's funny she always said to me a few times I can't wait for it to happen, meaning the time of her death she was looking forward to that day when she steps over on the other side into the Kingdom of God, Her and I talked about the Kingdom of God and how Jesus comes in and saves our souls so that we can be there with him that we are the bride and he is the groom and that he loves us so much and then he calls for us each and every day if we would listen we will hear his voice, and my mom she did listen and she did hear the voice of God the voice of Jesus, how precious that is my mom was of praying woman she prayed for all of her kids and all of her grandkids and her great grandkids, she had Christian music playing all night long right by her bit and she loved that, my mom who was the prime example of a hard working woman all of her life she never relied on the government or the tribe she never got food stamp or any government assistant she has worked and earned her living her life and shared it with all her loved ones, she was example of how we should be how we should live, work hard and believe in God all the way to the end, this was my mom Marie Rose Harvey born 1939 and she was 85 years old, moms are special, sometimes they are very hard and very stern it's only because they want to correct you and that you would live a good life, they are very loving because you are there baby, and no matter how old you are just like me I am 63 years old and she still calls me baby and that's the way mothers are you are a baby to them all the years of her life, my momma I am missing her I would call her this morning if she was still here and she would ask for everybody she would ask for Lisa should ask for CJ should ask how were they doing are they OK. This was my mom and I'm writing this morning as I sit here it's only been a few days since we laid my mom to rest and I'm already missing her I'm missing the way she talked her little laugh always been funny, I'm writing from my perspective of my mom I know everybody else has their own perspective and experience with her and I bit the your funny and also a time of seriousness that he had with her
This is dated to see January 7, 2025
Ron Harvey
HTNM
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Today I sit here early this morning drinking my coffee thinking about what had just happening to me and my family, one of the hardest things to go through in life had just happen to us and that was to lose my mother, my Mom, she was 85 years old when she passed, my beautiful loving mom who loved each one of us all my brothers and sisters, and all her grandkids and great grandkids, the love that came from her was genuine she talked about them and asked me many times I wonder where he is or she is she was always concern about all of us My mom was a loving women she did not just talked about she loved you but she showed it (tears as I am writing this, and missing talking with her over the phone I would call her every other day and sometimes daily).
My mind goes back to when I was young going back to about 3 or 4 years old my mom laying by me and making faces and talking to me and making me laugh, I can only see her face that’s as far back I can remember. My mom always bought me the best of everything, the best clothes, the best toys and I did have the best toys I remember the Batman figures and the Superman figures the nice big truck, I mean those were the truck that were made out of steel not the cheap plastic now days, and how many of them did I have Wow! And all my brothers and sister we all had the best because my mom put us 1st in her life her concern was for kids, her family, both my mom and dad were hard working parents they both had jobs my Dad was working with the Navajo Forest Products Industries (NFPI), as supervisor and then later as a Superintendent over his dry kiln he too was a loving father His love for us was genuine His love never failed us through out his life. My mom worked in the food industry My mom worked for the school system in Navajo New Mexico the McKinley County School System, then later she went to work in Ft. Defiance, AZ. In the Window Rock School System, Apache County School System she worked there for over 30 years til she retired from her job.
My mom was very firm and so time harsh in her words, but that was only because we didn’t listen to her or make her real upset. Then she would sit you down and correct you, but that was only just a little fraction of her about 5% of her the 95% of her was full of life and love that was who she was, But the sad part of this is I lost over 20 years of my parents life, because the break down in our relationship, the constant arguments that I was having with my dad, I became so uncomfortable in my own home that one day at the age of 18 years old I left home and never went back, I knew my mom and dad but I really didn’t know them for 20 plus years (that in it self is a long story maybe I’ll write about that later)…but when I came back into the family was because of my dad and how God saved him and the talks that we had led me back home to my mom, My mom loved me she hugged me and cried over me, she loved me, she told me many stories, She helped me when I really needed help, We went out to lunches, the last 2 years of her life was a precious time for me with her, my kids became closer to her they grew to love her and she loved them with all her heart, she always ask for them and grandkids, Daxton would get on her bed and hug her (tears)… My momma, I wept as I wrote this, No one understands this feeling until you lose your momma, It’s good to let this feeling out that I don’t keep it inside me, the last thing she said to me on Monday December 16, 2024 as I called her on the phone, She said that her time is coming closer, she had a weaker voice that usual, I told her Mom don’t say that and that Christmas was coming. She said I hope they make it then I told her mom you'll make it and then she said to me I'm not afraid of death I know where I'm going and I'm gonna go meet your dad she came for little laugh, she said my time is coming soon then she said to me you in Navajo, go and finish the task that the Lord has given you that I know in her voice she was tired, then she said I have lived a good life I'm tired, then I told her OK mom I'll call you tomorrow she said to me OK, I said I love you mom and she said to me I love you more then I hung the phone up, but I guess that would be the last phone call we would ever have, alone she went into state of coma (sleep) and she would pass on December 21st at 11:30 am. We were on our way to see her and we were about 10 minutes away when she passed put my kids and my brothers/sisters my niece and nephew were there beside her when she passed, we were all there beside her bed cried, now that I'm thinking back I think this was the best way for her to go the people that loved her around her bed those that were those that live in phoenix, but I know her grandkids that lived way out couldn't make it that was understandable but for my mother to pass and her love woman's around her it was a hard thing to go through but also the best way for her and for us as a family, she loved the Lord with all her heart and she knew she was ready to go to that heavenly Kingdom, it's funny she always said to me a few times I can't wait for it to happen, meaning the time of her death she was looking forward to that day when she steps over on the other side into the Kingdom of God, Her and I talked about the Kingdom of God and how Jesus comes in and saves our souls so that we can be there with him that we are the bride and he is the groom and that he loves us so much and then he calls for us each and every day if we would listen we will hear his voice, and my mom she did listen and she did hear the voice of God the voice of Jesus, how precious that is my mom was of praying woman she prayed for all of her kids and all of her grandkids and her great grandkids, she had Christian music playing all night long right by her bit and she loved that, my mom who was the prime example of a hard working woman all of her life she never relied on the government or the tribe she never got food stamp or any government assistant she has worked and earned her living her life and shared it with all her loved ones, she was example of how we should be how we should live, work hard and believe in God all the way to the end, this was my mom Marie Rose Harvey born 1939 and she was 85 years old, moms are special, sometimes they are very hard and very stern it's only because they want to correct you and that you would live a good life, they are very loving because you are there baby, and no matter how old you are just like me I am 63 years old and she still calls me baby and that's the way mothers are you are a baby to them all the years of her life, my momma I am missing her I would call her this morning if she was still here and she would ask for everybody she would ask for Lisa should ask for CJ should ask how were they doing are they OK. This was my mom and I'm writing this morning as I sit here it's only been a few days since we laid my mom to rest and I'm already missing her I'm missing the way she talked her little laugh always been funny, I'm writing from my perspective of my mom I know everybody else has their own perspective and experience with her and I bit the your funny and also a time of seriousness that he had with her
This is dated to see January 7, 2025
Ron Harvey
HTNM
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