For some people, Mother’s Day can be painful…a reminder of loss…a time of grieving for being motherless…a holiday some choose to ignore because it is wrapped with sadness. For others it has grown into a time of reflection and of honoring or celebrating a life that was lived…by baking a special recipe (as I did, […]

This is for all of you who are grieving this Mother’s Day: In the rising of the sun and its going down, we remember them. In the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter, we remember them. In the opening buds and in the rebirth of spring, we remember them. In the […]

4 YEARS OF AGE – My Mommy can do anything! 8 YEARS OF AGE – My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot! 12 YEARS OF AGE – My Mother doesn’t really know quite everything. 14 YEARS OF AGE – Naturally, Mother doesn’t know that, either. 16 YEARS OF AGE – Mother? She’s hopelessly old-fashioned. […]

Real Mothers don’t eat quiche; They don’t have time to make it. Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils Are probably in the sandbox. Real Mothers often have sticky floors, Filthy ovens and happy kids. Real Mothers know that dried play dough Doesn’t come out of carpets. Real Mothers don’t want to know what The […]

Mommy, don’t cry, ’cause God is holding my hand and telling me everything is OK. Mommy, God said that I will never want for anything and I will still feel your love all the way up here. Mommy, you should see me, I am running and playing with God’s other children. Mommy, guess who helps […]

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. “If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.” 2. My mother taught me RELIGION. “You better pray that will come out of the carpet.” 3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL. “If you don’t straighten up, I’m […]

Jennifer was an only child. And she had talked with her mother, Royce, about organ donation. Jennifer believed in it. But of course, being a teenager, Jen never thought about the day when she would die so she could be a donor. It was May. It was Mother’s Day. And it was an accident that […]

After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, “I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would love to spend some time with you.” The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my MOTHER, who […]

One thing I know for certain: my mother knew I loved her – without conditions and without expectations. Oh, I was far from the perfect child – just as she was far from the perfect mother. But she and I had a special relationship and even her death can’t take that away from me. ~J […]

This is for the mothers who: —Have sat up all night with sick toddlers in their arms, wiping up barf laced with Oscar Mayer Wieners and cherry Kool-Aid saying, “It’s okay honey, Mommy’s here.” —Have sat in rocking chairs for hours on end soothing crying babies who can’t be comforted. —Show up at work with […]