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| ©Susan Jaye 2013 |
Hope you all are doing great and had a great weekend!
Repost this, in honor to my mom, Annalee ... coming upon 19 years since she passed... still miss her often, but so many great memories! Hugs to all!
In 1994, I was fed up with Mother's Day cards. Every card I saw, either said something snarky or sappy, and nothing came close to saying what I wanted to say. So, I wrote one myself; a sort of poem to my mom that served as that year's card. She loved it, and kept it in her bedside table.
She died in 2005. We had a wonderful and fun bond, and I will always consider her, my first great, love.
As I am a mom now, I continuously try to build a good relationship with my daughters.
So, in honor of moms everywhere, both present, past and future I share my Mother's Day card.
For me, it's as true now, as it ever was.
To Mom
There have been countless times when I told that I loved you,
Countless times that I've thanked you for being there and being my mom.
But in case there are times when I don't or won't say it, I want you know always
What I feel in my heart.
You raised me to laugh and to sing songs on a swing set.
You opened the door to the world of make believe;
a world of Mable and Charles and Pokey the Puppy.
You protected me from the Wicked Witch of the West and the Abominable Snowman;
yet encouraged me to see that I was strong enough to face them alone.
You showed me the warmth and the comfort of a thunderstorm as well as the sun.
You held me and helped me through times of tears,
Whether it was a broken toy or a broken dream.
Then helped me to find the courage to pick up the pieces and create something new.
As I grew and life became more interesting and complicated,
You were there to share, to listen, always with an open mind and an open heart.
Because of you, I never learned to lie- I never needed to.
I knew whatever I did, no matter how it was judged by others,
It would be accepted and loved by you, for it was part of my journey to discovering me.
Through this unconditional love I have been set free. Free to live without the need for secrets to create lies, and free to love others as they are, not who I wish for them to be.
And free to be all that I can be, in each moment of my life, perfectly me.
Thank you, all my love.
Here are some quotes about Motherhood from different sources.
"Mothers are all slightly insane." - J.D. Salinger
"If evolution really works, why do mothers only have two hands?" -Milton Berle
(My thought on this one- Early on in when I became a mom, I thought it would be helpful to be born an octopus, giving me eight hands; till the "mommy brain" cleared, and I realized that would mean that I would have octopi as offspring, thus, defeating the purpose. Please see: Ever Feel Like This?)
"Having kids-- the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, reponsible human beings--is the biggest job anyone can embark on." -Maria Shriver
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
- Oscar Wilde
"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principle may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium." -Mary Kay Blakely
"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition in the ironies and the absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight." -Barbara Shapiro
"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children." -Elaine Heffner
Happy Mother's Day.
In 1994, I was fed up with Mother's Day cards. Every card I saw, either said something snarky or sappy, and nothing came close to saying what I wanted to say. So, I wrote one myself; a sort of poem to my mom that served as that year's card. She loved it, and kept it in her bedside table.
She died in 2005. We had a wonderful and fun bond, and I will always consider her, my first great, love.
As I am a mom now, I continuously try to build a good relationship with my daughters.
So, in honor of moms everywhere, both present, past and future I share my Mother's Day card.
For me, it's as true now, as it ever was.
To Mom
There have been countless times when I told that I loved you,
Countless times that I've thanked you for being there and being my mom.
But in case there are times when I don't or won't say it, I want you know always
What I feel in my heart.
You raised me to laugh and to sing songs on a swing set.
You opened the door to the world of make believe;
a world of Mable and Charles and Pokey the Puppy.
You protected me from the Wicked Witch of the West and the Abominable Snowman;
yet encouraged me to see that I was strong enough to face them alone.
You showed me the warmth and the comfort of a thunderstorm as well as the sun.
You held me and helped me through times of tears,
Whether it was a broken toy or a broken dream.
Then helped me to find the courage to pick up the pieces and create something new.
As I grew and life became more interesting and complicated,
You were there to share, to listen, always with an open mind and an open heart.
Because of you, I never learned to lie- I never needed to.
I knew whatever I did, no matter how it was judged by others,
It would be accepted and loved by you, for it was part of my journey to discovering me.
Through this unconditional love I have been set free. Free to live without the need for secrets to create lies, and free to love others as they are, not who I wish for them to be.
And free to be all that I can be, in each moment of my life, perfectly me.
Thank you, all my love.
Here are some quotes about Motherhood from different sources.
"Mothers are all slightly insane." - J.D. Salinger
"If evolution really works, why do mothers only have two hands?" -Milton Berle
(My thought on this one- Early on in when I became a mom, I thought it would be helpful to be born an octopus, giving me eight hands; till the "mommy brain" cleared, and I realized that would mean that I would have octopi as offspring, thus, defeating the purpose. Please see: Ever Feel Like This?)
"Having kids-- the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, reponsible human beings--is the biggest job anyone can embark on." -Maria Shriver
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
- Oscar Wilde
"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principle may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium." -Mary Kay Blakely
"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition in the ironies and the absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight." -Barbara Shapiro
"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children." -Elaine Heffner
Happy Mother's Day.
