Check in here to say, "Thanks, mom."

[flvegan]

It is Mother's Day, and no matter what gift I buy nor card I send, it will never deliver the appropriate sentiment that I feel when I think of what my mother did, gave up, endured, etc to help me get where I am, where my brother is. I'm very lucky, and that's only because of the opportunities my mother gave me. That's it, that's all.

Abe Lincoln did say it best, and it will never be improved upon: "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."

So...thanks, mom. I love you.

[demnan]

1. Absolutely!

My mother is disabled and 86, still she is the most important person I talk to. I send her flowers for Mother's Day, but really my presence is the best thing I bring her. To sit with her and make a pot of tea and share a meal is the best thing she asks for.

Remember that because that is probably true for so many of our mothers.

[EFerrari]

2. Thanks, Mamita, for being such a terrible bad @ss.

[ulysses]

3. yes, indeed.

:loveya:, Mom.

[lligrd]

4. I Have The World's Best Mother

and I agree that there is no way to express how much she means to me.

[Kali]

5. I miss her every single day.

She was such a good person. I only wish I could possess a fraction of her internal beauty.

[spoony]

6. Great thread idea. Thanks, Mom!

[stevedeshazer]

7. My mom just turned 80.

Smart, beautiful, experienced.

Long Live Mom! And Moms everywhere.

[SeattleGirl]

8. I would give anything to be able to call my mom on Sunday.

Today is three months since she passed away, and it hurts so much not to have her around.

But I am still thankful for the way she raised me, and for how much she loved me.

[flvegan]

9. I'm so sorry.

I don't have any words that I can put here to make any difference.

[Kajsa]

16. Oh, SeattleGirl,

I'm so sorry.

:( :hug:

[AnotherMother4Peace]

22. I'm sorry for your loss. You just made her proud with your words.

It sounds like she made this world a better place.

[Richard Steele]

10. Thanks Mom!

[vixengrl]

11. Mom--you are my political conscience--

and many of the things I've stood for or believed in had a lot to do with whether you would have stood by me--whether you, the honest, gentle, tolerant person who informed my beliefs, could have gone where I went, and taken up the causes I believed in--and I know I got my tolerance from you, and my open mind from you, and my desire to undestand and my empathy from you. If I have any gentleness in the midst of my caustic sarcasm--it came from you. And if I want to serve the people who have no strength--it's because you taught me to sympathize, and if I want to empower those who don't know their strength yet, it was because you taught me to believe in people.

My mom is the gentlest, most accepting, most resiliant and understanding person I know. Her wisdom is my cornerstone: when I speak with her, I feel like I am speaking with someone who has her ownself always tried to do the right thing. She gives so many people the benefit of the doubt. She loves unreservedly. She is responsible to all those she loves, and takes on their troubles.

I and my brother are my father's children in our sense of humor, our sarcasm, our cynicism. She has corrected us all, in her own way, with her dignified, rectified, and educated ability to speak truth and pacify. She is my rock and the one person I can really be myself to, besides my husband. She understands, and forgives. She is gentle, but I know she has incredible strength.

This is about my mom--I love her the most. If I do anything well, she is to thank or blame.

(Although "blame" usually comes from the degree to which I am my father's child--a solid sarcastic cynical rebellious outspoken "Wild Child" with knowledge and a yearning for experience--that only my mother could love. I admire them both--quite a lot.)

[flvegan]

12. That's a good one.

:thumbsup:

[Hekate]

13. Rest in peace, Mom. You can stop haunting your daughters now .... any time.

Happy rebirth.
I pray that you will find all the nurturance and love you need to fully be the shining soul that so many other women saw when you "mothered" them.
I pray that whatever daughters of the flesh you may have in the next life will always feel that they are "good enough" daughters, and that whatever gifts they have in themselves will be valued for themselves, and whatever gifts they give you will be valued as coming from the heart.
I wish you peace. I wish you peace.

Hekate

[Raejeanowl]

14. I Wish I'd Known Mine Better

I am only now beginning to understand and feel compassion for her decisions. This process is tougher without her here.

The best I can do now is make sure my children (and grandchildren) know and understand me, warts and all.

[we can do it]

15. Thanks For Everything Mom - I Miss You Terribly

[Kajsa]

17. My Mom, 88 years old now, has

been a Rock of Gibraltar for my brother and I.
She went to hell and back for us.

I'm headed down to see both of them today at
my Mom's retirement home.

It's also my big brother's birthday, so it's a double
whammy celebration. :)

This is a great thread, Fivegan.
Your Mom raised some fine young men!

Thanks. :pals:

[malaise]

18. Thanks mom

for letting me be me even though we differed on so many ideological, philosophical and religious issues. Thanks for proof reading my M.Phil thesis and telling me that you were proud of me. Thanks for telling me so often that loved and respected me and most of all thanks for telling me you weren't feeling too well on Mother's Day 1994. Your tone told me that you were really sick, so I dropped everything and flew to big sisters and spent three lovely weeks with you. When you died that July, those precious three weeks helped to complete a lovely circle of our lives.

As hubby laughs at the meticulous way in which I pay all bills by the 25th of every month, I thank you.
As I repeat lines you used, I think of you.
As I wash our combs and brushes every Saturday morning, I remember you.
As I look in the mirror, I see you.

Thanks Mom. I wish you were here so I could give you a hug.


Oh and flvegan, thanks for bringing tears to my eyes this Mothers' Day. :grouphug:

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[Breeze54]

19. Thanks Mom, I wasn't an 'easy' child but you stuck with me!

Thank You for all you did for us and I miss you... still and always will.

[Tumbulu]

20. I feel my mother's presence in the hummingbirds that visit the flowers around my house.

My mom died over two years ago, I still miss her terribly. She was 88 and died in peace asleep.

One of the first things that she taught me to do as a child was to feed the ants. She told me that if they had enough to eat outside, they would not bother to go all the way into the house to get food. So, everyday I would go out with a sugar bowl and spoon and sprinkle sugar gently around each and every ant hill on the acre of ground that we lived on. Then she would send me to up to my grand aunt's place on the hill who spent her last years cooking huge pots of food on the stove to feed the 30+ stray cats and 20+ stray dogs that roamed the countryside (this was before there were animal shelters and people used to dump their pets in the countryside). I would get to help her put all the food out and call the dogs and cats who would come out of nowhere, eat and then go away into the woods with full bellies.

Thank you Mommy and Grand Aunt!

[ThatsMyBarack]

21. Thanks, Mom....

For cooking us all a wonderful brunch this morning! We had 10 of us family members together. :hug: :loveya:

[Blue Diadem]

23. Thanks Mom

I know your life was difficult, losing two babies and a husband so young. You laid in bed for 6 months after that to give birth to his child, my oldest brother. You married again and survived near death from Meningitis and survived living with an abusive man, a man so screwed up by war that it took years for him to realize what he'd done. You dedicated yourself to raising and caring for your daughter born with Down Syndrome. You did that for 39 years and 1 day. You were stronger than you ever gave yourself credit for.

You taught me about compassion, kindness and caring for those in need. I thank you for that.

It's been 12 years now since our last Mother's day together. I miss you Mom.

Happy Mother's Day.

I was going through some old photo's I'd found in envelopes the other day and came across a Mother's day poem I'd written when I was in 1st or 2nd grade.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
My mother is sweet,
She's as sweet as a peach,
She buys us our clothes
and she cooks us our food,
She gives us our hugs and she loves us too.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

24. Lovely tribute, just lovely. Thank you for sharing a little of her story. n/t

[malaise]

25. That's a lovely post n/t

[Arctic Dave]

26. Thank you, my little red headed pit bull (aka Mom)