No this is not a suck up post although it sounds like an Essay title, doesn't it? I know I have been bad about blogging and this post has been on my mind for a few days now so when Mom reminded me how long it had been since I posted I decided to go ahead and write this. I had a great yet very under apreciated mom growing up. I look back now and marvel at all my mom did. Raising 3 girls, a lot of time going it on her own for days at a time while our dad worked hard earning money plowing snow during blizzard after blizzard. She always sewed stuff, most food we ate in our house was homemade. Sure she occassionally bought a bag of chip ahoy cookies but most times there were homemade cookies for us to have. In the summer she helped to tend the garden and then canned in 90+ degree heat with no air conditioning. And like most kids would I took it all for granted. Plus our house was always clean and orderly, but homey.
I never realized all she did and how effortless she made it look. Till I had kids and even then I kinda blew it off because she was a housewife and I was holding down a full time job and raising kids. Then I lost my job and became a housewife myself. And in the last year or so I have become more and more aware of how much work my mom did and how easy she made everything look. Maybe its just old age. Maybe its that I found myself in similar shoes. Or maybe its because my kids recently spent time with her and now all I hear is DO IT THE WAY MEME DOES IT! What I do know is that I now realize how awesome my mom is and that I have a chance to tell her!
I love you mom, for all you have done and all you still do.
PS Dad I love you too and you are an awesome Dad as well!
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