Mother's Day coming up: Share about your Mom!

[scottydog]

Mother's Day is this Sunday and it has me thinking about my mom. I owe so much to her -- my dad was rarely around when I was growing up, and so my mom basically raised me.

She taught me so many things, above all honesty.

What about the rest of you? Tell me about your moms!

 

[TheBrew]

My Mom is an amazing woman that drives me nuts.

So I guess she was trying to get me used to marriage. :P

 

[Rii]

My Mum is a high school dropout who went on to earn her PhD. In the intervening years she raised two children as a single mother of limited financial means. She sacrificed everything - including relationships and, on occasion, meals - for me.

We've never been particularly close. She once observed that, psychologically, we are very much alike, and it's true, even extending to our tendencies toward social isolation.

She is an extraordinary woman, and I love her dearly. Although I don't truck with such nonsense as a child being indebted to its parents, I would like nothing more in this world than to make her proud.

 

[Kestra]

My Mom is an amazing woman that drives me nuts.

Oh, that sums it up so well!

I admire my mother for many things. She had an arranged marriage to my father, she came to a country where she had no relatives, she had three children within four years (which also included the time she was doing her residency), she lugged us halfway across the world and back even as infants and toddlers (I cannot even imagine the horrors that included).

As I've grown older I've realized that we don't share many of the same values, but she has taught me some important ones. And the past couple of years have taught me that she would do absolutely anything for her own kids, and she wants us to be happy more than anything else.

 

[Nardpuncher]

My mom was 5 years old during the Battle of Britain and the air raid shelter they tried to get into before they were told it was full and to go to the next one was leveled by a bomb.

 

[Goliath]

My Mom did a terrific job of raising four boys, by herself, under very trying circumstances, with only financial support from Dad.

Although she was sometimes compelled to restore order with a wooden spoon, a coat hanger, and even a plastic Hot Wheels track, overall, I think she displayed the patience of a saint. Her love for us knew no bounds.

What's more, as a homemaker, she was a model of practicality, frugality, and organization. These days, I struggle to keep even a two-bedroom apartment from turning into a garbage dump. And I marvel at her ability to keep us all fed and clothed, while at the same time keeping a clean and tidy home with a beautiful flower garden.

She essentially made us her career, and her investment in us has paid off handsomely: my brothers and I are all successful and respectable members of society; considering how easily we might all have turned into delinquents and convicts, I think society owes her a big 'thank you.' It's my privilege to help support her in a dignified and independent old age.

Everyone should be so lucky to have a Mom like mine.

 

[Nardpuncher]

My Mom did a terrific job of raising four boys, by herself, under very trying circumstances, with only financial support from Dad.

Although she was sometimes compelled to restore order with a wooden spoon, a coat hanger, and even a plastic Hot Wheels track, overall, I think she displayed the patience of a saint. Her love for us knew no bounds.

What's more, as a homemaker, she was a model of practicality, frugality, and organization. These days, I struggle to keep even a two-bedroom apartment from turning into a garbage dump. And I marvel at her ability to keep us all fed and clothed, while at the same time keeping a clean and tidy home with a beautiful flower garden.




She essentially made us her career, and her investment in us has paid off handsomely: my brothers and I are all successful and respectable members of society; considering how easily we might all have turned into delinquents and convicts, I think society owes her a big 'thank you.' It's my privilege to help support her in a dignified and independent old age.

Everyone should be so lucky to have a Mom like mine.

That was a sweet story. (no sarcasm...the smiley is real)

 

[O'Dib]

Anyone knows a mom-themed song that is neither too sappy or creepy?

 

[TheBrew]

BTW, is anyone else going to join the robot revolution on Mother's Day this year?

 

[propita]

My Mom is great. She has a good heart and means well in pretty much everything she does. She was married to my rocket-scientist father for almost 50 years, remembering everything for him that didn't have to do with work, and keeping him alive with her care (he'd forget his meds, his drs appts, food)--and she misses him dearly.

Mom has been of unending love and support to me, and offers what support she can to my siblings--who don't realize the gem she is. She didn't work much while a mother, but was always there with love when we got home from school.

At age 75, Mom drives into Los Angeles at least twice a month (and anyone familiar knows this can be something for a 75 yo) to help her bitch-of-a-mother run her errands. She's usually calls me in tears afterwards, because my grandmother makes life so difficult, but Mom says it's her duty to take care of her mother, beccause no on else would.

Since Dad's been gone, Mom has slowly been getting stronger on her own, handling things she never had to before. And while that's good, each occurrence makes her realize that Dad's gone because he used to handle such things. My Mom is a terrific mother and an even better person. I am so lucky to have her for my mother.

 

[Timby]

My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet.

 

[O'Dib]

And your father was a stallion?

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

My mother married at 15 (yes, 15), got pregnant at 16, and got a divorce at 18. She was an alcoholic, and she lived with a convicted drug dealer after the divorce.

Yeah, she was a winner back then. Dad was always there for me, though.

However, I was raised by Mother's parents. So, on Mother's Day, I celebrate my grandmother.

Granny was a strong willed, stubborn woman who was dedicated to her family. She worked a full-time job while taking care of her misfit children and me while her husband stayed away from home most of the time.

She demanded that we do our best, and she taught me how to be practical, independent, self reliant, and - most importantly - to have integrity.

She had polio as a child, and she spent most of her life walking around, unassisted, while missing several of the disks in her lower back. She was in constant pain, but you'd never know it.

She was the ultimate example of perseverance through adversity. No matter what life threw at her, she kept going. She didn't complain. She didn't whine or moan. She made it work because she had to, and she taught me the importance of doing just that.

She died young - 59.

As the rock our family leaned on, she is sorely missed. But, I like to try to remember everything she taught me about life simply by how she chose to live hers. She was no saint (not by a long shot), but she was my mother in all senses of the word that really matter.

She held me when I was sad. She petted me when I was hurt. She supported me in my goals. She listened to my thoughts. She tried to quell my fears. She played legos with me. She taught me how to cook and sew buttons on things. She made me wear size and age appropriate clothing. She made me her whole world when she didn't have to.

What more could a person want than to be blessed to have been guided by someone like that?

(Sorry, that was little more emotional than my norm.)

 

[Udat]

^ Well what ever happened to your bio mother?

My mum is my best friend, my worst enemy, mouthy, loud, obnoxious and I love her dearly! God knows I to scared to do otherwise!

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

^ Well what ever happened to your bio mother?

When Granny died, Mother sobered up, thus I started interacting with her. She's a recovering who hasn't had a drink in over 5 years.

I'm proud of her, but we're more or less sisters. We'll never have a mother-daughter relationship. We basically grew up together.

 

[Udat]

^ I want to ask questions about your feelings towards your bio mum but I feel they are way to personal.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

PM me on it if you really want to know.

 

[O'Dib]

My mom is a glorious, hard-working lady. She was a brilliant stay-at-home mom until dad lost his job and decided to take us looking for job opportunities on a different continent. Finding that his skills aren't marketable in the new environment, mom stepped in and found a pretty kick-ass job, and has been the family's primary bread winner ever since. Oh, and she stayed with dad after discovering his multiple affairs, although she may as well not have, considering she's still constantly busting his balls about it half my lifetime later. If I learned something from her, it would have to be "don't cheat!"

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My mom died when I was 11. She had been sick for most of my life. I have very little memory of her when she was well (I was 2 when she started going downhill).

 

[scottydog]

Wow. All of your stories of your mothers (and grandmothers) are really quite powerful. Adm_Hawthorne, you made me cry. In fact, many of you have, including you, Laser Beam. So many great stories, so many sad ones. Thankfully someone was there to raise us if our moms weren't.