Posted on 05/12/2018 4:36:33 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
So...on this Mother's Day Eve...tell us about, 'Your Mom.'
Did you have a good one? Did you have a bad one? Did you lose her too soon, or are you like me and even though you still have her you KNOW you'll be lost without her...even though you're SUPPOSED to be a Grown-Up at this point in time. *HEART*
Please include Step-Moms as applicable...because I'm, 'The Most Evil Stepmother*' of them all, LOL!
*Not really; my (adult) boys respect, adore and FEAR me...as they should.
Have an amazing one. Swung radically left over the past few years, frequently annoyed that my brothers and I have stuck to what she taught us before she went all pinko ;)
I would give anything to be a 10 year old kid again and enjoy one of Mother’s great meals.
She was the best person I ever knew and I really mean that.
My mother passed away a number of years ago, at age 86.
She raised us to have respect for others, and to live our lives according to important values.
She encouraged us to always do our best, and to aspire to achieve as we entered professional careers.
She impressed on us the value of education, and life long learning. Education didn’t just happen in the classroom, she told us. Read books and watch educational programs on TV to learn about the world, was her standard. She would often ask, read any good books lately?
She encouraged us to always be honest and fair in dealings with other people.
She told us to think before we speak.
She told us not to keep up with the Joneses, or incur too much debt.
She discouraged use of profanity. She wanted us to have a good vocabulary, so as to express ourselves properly, without swearing.
She told my brother and I, when each of us got married, to be respectful of our wives, to take them out to dinner, don’t forget why we wanted to marry them, to date them, court them, even after marriage. She told us to call the babysitter ourselves, so that we could set up a date, and spend quality time with our wives, to enjoy them and show them how much we appreciate them.
I’m sure I could think of more, but this will do for now.
Nice topic. Happy Mother’s Day to everyone’s mother, and to all Freepers who are mothers.
I didn’t realize how much she sacrificed for us (6) until I was well past the age of minority. She had hinted for years that she would like a mother’s ring so one year we all got her one, put it in the bottom of a huge box full of worn out clothes and gift wrapped it. I’ll remember the confused look on her face as she took out item after item of old clothes until she got to the bottom and then the tears when she opened the ring box. She passed away almost 19 years ago and my dad entrusted me with the ring, which I still have.
I have a briiliant, extremely competent mother. She was a formidable woman, and growing up,I was afraid of her a lot of the time. I thank God that both of us have lived long enough to put all our differences aside and simply love each other. Life and loss molded my mother into a sweet, affectionate and loving woman. She will turn 90 in August and I thank God for every day that I still have her.
My mother just turned 80 but i’m not worried as they all do an easy 95 on that side of the family. I live 500 miles from my mother but make sure I talk to her at least 2/3 times a week.
Needless to say my mother is as good as it gets!
Never knew her...
I had one of the great ones. She died 21 years ago and I miss her terribly. She was one of the greatest generation. My mother and I spent 33 months waiting for him to return from WW11. What a great role model she was for me.
Thank you, Mama!
My mother is a great woman.
She’s always been the cheerful, helpful, attentive and generous mother. Great memories. Of great cooking despite her teaching job (students LOVED her), always getting little gifts (even at 10 I’d think “why are you spoiling me with this?”), always going for fun trips.
(And yes, she DOES have her “other side”, which strangers don’t see - unless they cross her! But I’ll demur on that for Mother’s Day for positivity’s sake and the fact she is, on the whole, a most excellent mama who always comes to bat for us.)
My mother had lupus and we lost her when she was 52. She taught us how to fish, play ball and just fun things. She died right after my son was born. I feel cheated.
My mom passed away on Sept. 19 last year. It will be my first Mother’s Day without her. She was a great mom with a great sense of humor and I miss her everyday.
The long version starts with her childhood suffering during the Depression...
My mother went to be with the Lord just a few years ago. The best person I have ever known.
My mom was a 16 year old girl living in Rome on June 4, 1944 when American troops, including my dad, entered the city. Two days later, she was reading about the Normandy landings when she met my dad (who was from Detroit and spoke Italian). A couple years later, he returned to marry her.
How does one answer if the answer is not what most people want or expect to hear?
I think about Her every time I tie my shoes.
You attract what you fear.
Every thought is like a request.
What others give you is what they want.
One day, about fourteen years ago when she was about 79, she looked me straight in the eyes and said, “It just keeps getting better and better.”
She refused to celebrate her birthday. In fact, until recently I never knew her birth date, oh, I knew or suspected it was sometime in September, but I respected her wish. She would say if anyone asked her how old she was, “I’m ageless.” She said she refused to be labeled by how many times the earth revolved around the sun.
She told me that once your children are grown, your only job is to love them.
I once said to her how I missed how adorable children are when they are young and she replied that when they were grown up they were so much more interesting.
She taught me that whenever I see an ambulance or fire truck or paramedics go screaming by to KNOW, “Where that is, God is.”
she taught me, “You can’t lose what’s yours.”
My mother is now 92, bed-ridden & on hospice care. She’d been Republican all her life. Things changed after my father died & there was no one there to analyze for her what the idiots on the tube were saying. She voted for Obama twice & hates Trump. I can only tolerate her now as I know she’ll be passing on soon. Too bad...
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