Whether you have/had or even are like the Joan Crawford (“Mommie Dearest”), Barbara Billingsley (“June Cleaver”), Phylicia Rashad (“Claire Huxtable”), or Meg Ryan (“Alice Green”) type of mom, May 8 is your day all day.
Being a mom is the most demanding, challenging, and BEST job that I have ever had in my life. I chose to be a little something like each “mom” I listed above. Each one has a quality that at some point in my 19 years of being a mom I have somehow fallen into while raising my children. And I am sure I have left out some as well.
I remember my boys making the “Mother’s Day Breakfast in Bed” for me. That did not go on for too many years because one of us always ended up wearing something on our pajamas. I loved it though. It is funny to look back on it now.
Whatever your plans are for Mother’s Day, I hope you and your family make a beautiful memory this year that will stay with you all forever.
If your mom has passed away, is ill or maybe just lives out of town… be sure to say “Happy Mother’s Day, Mom, I love you".
Before I Was Myself, You Made Me, Me
Music: Fugue in F Minor
Dy: Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J, Marques.
Before I was myself you made me, me
With love and patience, discipline and tears,
Then bit by bit stepped back to set me free,
Allowing me to sail upon my sea,
Though well within the headlands of your fears.
Before I was myself you made me, me
With dreams enough of what I was to be
And hopes that would be sculpted by the years,
Then bit by bit stepped back to set me free,
Relinquishing your powers gradually
To let me shape myself among my peers.
Before I was myself you made me, me,
And being good and wise, you gracefully
As dancers when the last sweet cadence nears
Bit by bit stepped back to set me free.
For love inspires learning naturally:
The mind assents to what the heart reveres.
And so it was through love you made me, me
By slowly stepping back to set me free.
This poem is dedicated to all moms. Happy Mothers Day.
