Carla Brooks, a loving woman, has been taking care of her sick husband for 20 years after he had a stroke.

Carla thought her life had lost purpose after he passed away several years ago. At that point, Burton, her son, had a fantastic thought.

Burton discovered several postcards from his mother’s 1962 trip to Europe when he was looking through an old photo album a few days after his father’s passing. At that same time, he had a brilliant idea: as a way of saying “thank you,” he invited her on a trip to Europe. Twenty nations will be visited by them, one for each year she took care of his father.

The trip

During the trip, Burton hoped that he could help his mother with the grief she had to deal with after his father’s illness and de@th. So he began to plan the surprise.

“After the stroke, my mother took care of my disabled father – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 20 years – until he passed away last year”, Burton wrote on his blog.

“Ever since I can remember, whenever she did something impressive, he would jokingly say, ‘How did you do that? You’re just a little girl from Kamas (a small town in the state of Utah, United States)’, and that would always put a smile on her face. But now that he’s gone, she’s completely lost and doesn’t know what to do with herself now that she has no one to take care of, and she just can’t find the old adventurer hidden in her”.

“I wanted to see if I could change that by taking her on a big adventure because I think it’s time to find the little girl from Kamas and prove to her that she still has a lot of life left to live..”

Don’t take anything for granted

What an amazing son! It’s really necessary for us to appreciate the gift of time and not take for granted the fact that our loved ones will always be by our side.

Feel free to share this son’s wonderful surprise to inspire others to return all the love we receive from our mothers.