Happy Mothers Day!

To all my mom friends, I wish happy mother's day.

Please say something sweet to your mom for me.

I so miss mine.

My mom was not a stay at home mom. I was actually a latch key kid. 

Still she loved me and did her best to make sure I could handle life with out her. As it turns out that time came way to soon.

While I do not want to emulate her life, I do admire her strength. In a time when single motherhood and divorce were taboo, she made a life for us. It was not always happy go lucky, but the good out weighed the bad.

Though in truth it is my philosophy that in life you learn from both the good and bad, then you throw away the bad like so much trash. Once you are an adult, your parents are no longer an excuse for what you choose to become. From my mother I learned strength and got a big dose of disdain for those who carry past wrongs with them as if they were a badge or something to keep polished and visible. They are not. Chunk them to the trash heap, and get on with YOUR life. Making things better for your kids.

THAT is what my mom taught me. She had a hard life as a kid. She lost her mom at 3, lived through the real great depression and was always feuding with her sisters. That is just the tip of the iceberg. She was flawed. We all are but she made the best of it and taught me to land on my feet not worrying about what others said about me as long as I did what was right. Funny how mom did not know God yet taught me lessons I need in my life as a Christian just the same. Now after her stroke, perhaps she and God became acquainted. She could not speak clearly after that but she lived 5 more years. Who is to say God did not meet her in the trapped recesses of her brain?

In any case she was my mom and I loved her. She loved me and went out of her way to teach me what she felt I needed to know.

If you are close enough to yours, hug your mom an extra couple times for me.

Have a great day my friends.