From staff reports
Oil City resident Carolyn Terrill said she, like most mothers across the country, was feeling down at the prospect of celebrating Mother’s Day weekend without her four children, who range in age from 40 to 52.
“They’re all grown-up, successful and still live in the area, but I can’t see them, and I don’t want to see them,” Terrill. said.
Terrill said she and her family had made the decision to forego face-to-face celebrations this year to keep everyone safe from possible COVID-19 exposure.
“I know if they could, they’d take me out to a nice dinner,” she laughed.
Feeling she needed a pick-me-up, Terrill decided to do something to lift her spirits and perhaps those of her neighbors as well.
She decorated the front door of her East Ninth Street home in cards from Mother’s Days past, pictures of her children and a sign that reads “forever and always.”
“I keep everything, every one of them,” Terrill said of the cards.
