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.
I’d rather not.
My mom was from Lucca and met my father when he was re-patriotating prisoners of war from the Italian camps.
He returned 5 years later to marry her. After his American fiancée died suddenly.
My Mother whored around, did drugs, left for days and weeks all while our Father was deployed off of Vietnam. She was quite possibly the most manipulative, vindictive and nasty person I have ever known. All that said, she was our Mother.
My step-Mother was a marked improvement.
My mom passed 13 years ago. She was raised in Wray Colorado during the dust bowl era. She wanted to go to U Neb to become a journalist. She only got a scholarship to go to nursing school at Children’s in Denver. That’s where she went and it turns out it is exactly where God wanted her. She met my dad while there.
She was an extraordinary diagnostician and a great nurse. She and my dad had five children. They didn’t marry until 1943. Before that she had joined the army and was stationed at Letterman in SF. That’s where she was on Dec 7
Mom was a good cook. A great housekeeper. Loved playing piano. Was a pretty good shot. Loved to read for herself and to us. She was always game for a new experience....and hence ended up with a broken back at age 49 from a fall on a rope tow.
She passed on her love of reading to her children
The most important thing about my mom was how much she loved my daughter. That relationship led to my daughter becoming a nurse.
I miss her much
I forgot to say, these are things my mother taught me.
Look for my answer a little above this reply...
Killed herself in ‘83.
35 years later, I’m still pissed at her.
I have a friend whose mother hated her so I’ve heard some stories. I’m so sorry you didn’t have a caring nurturing mother who loved you. Some people are just bad.
I had a good one. She was a strong, loving, simple, hardworking woman of traditional values. She has been gone nine years, and I miss her every day.
Best mom in the world. Cancer got her in Sept. 1979.
We live in Maryland. My mom lives in Florida and michigan, MIL lives in michigan. One of our kids graduated college today so both mom’s and my Mom’s husband are here.
She wanted to take the kids for ice cream. Big thunderstorm coming so we’re trying to order quickly. It’s raining. Cold rain. She orders a sundae. The girl asks about toppings and she blanks. Chocolate and butterscotch, neither of which were options. We were all laughing. Only ten minutes to look at the menu. Teasing ensued all the way home. She’s a good sport.
I have an awesome mother. She’s a 91-year-old feisty, independent, full-blooded Portuguese woman who bore me into this world, suffered my anguish, cheered my successes, and gave of herself to make life better for her children. I thank God every day for her... and I’ll be seeing her Tuesday on my trip to CA.
One wishes the answer were different.
God promises a better life to come.
My mom has always been a writer. In the 1960’s and 1970’s she had columns in a number of magazines: Highlights for Children, Today’s Family, Music Digest. A lot of articles and children’s books published.
But she was shaken to the core on August 9, 1974. It has affected our family ever since, she has never gotten over it. From a fun loving docent to a guarded, jaded observer.
She has taught me well to be careful - to enjoy life but to know there are evil people out there!
Mine is being red pilled as we speak! And boy is she pissed! Cannot believe all the lies she’s been told by media over the years and cannot believe my brother and I were right all this time. It’s a slow process but she’s slowly coming around!
Mom will be 93 in a couple months. Her mind is as sharp as a tack — better than mine, I guess.
A staunch Republican. Before the 2016 election, when my brother would be driving her somewhere and they passed a house with a Hillary sign in the yard, she’d make my brother stop. She’d march up to the door and speak to to the person inside, giving them some printed material I had sent to her. (She did say that she “blacked out the swear words first”. Hillary quotes were in there!)
Dad was in the ministry for 50 years, but she was the strong one — the one who pulled it all together, and held it all together, for both the church and family. She was verbally and mentally abused daily by him, and her life began 10 years ago when he died.
We kids have been lucky to have such an interesting, creative, and funny mother.
My mother was the best mother in the world she cooked great meals went berry picking with us to buy our school cloths and picked beans, cherries, painted our house, hung sheet rock. Drove us to school if we missed the bus and was always there for Us when we needed her.. I love and miss you mom. RIP Mom!
She tried ... thankfully nowhere in the neighborhood as bad as my father.
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