Mothers Graduate
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. I’ve been thinking …
Mothers are responsible that their child is clean, fed nutritious food, has clean clothes, makes good friends, does their homework, practices the piano, learns their manners, respects adults, learns to work, has time to play, and learns how to obey …
Mothers share their dessert, their drinks, their time, their clothes, their money, their knowledge, their talents, and their love …
Mothers clean up bottoms, toilets, puke, snotty noses, grimy hands, and unimaginable things in drawers and pockets …
Mothers get little sleep, work through illness, mend scraped knees, scare away the boogie man, rock a bye the babies, and chase away the fears …
Mothers suffer as their children learn consequences, lose a friend, don’t make the team, don’t make the basket, wreck the car, and get broken hearts …
Mothers cry when they are happy or when they are sad. They feel guilty for yelling, for not listening, for not playing, for not understanding, and for being tired …
Mothers worry and fret and pace the floor and pray when their children are hurt, sick, in danger, or out of sight …
Mothers want to make everything better … but sometimes they can’t.
Mothers do it all out of love. They thank God they are mothers and for their beautiful children …
Mother’s children grow up, fall in love, get married, and then … the mothers graduate with honors and receive their reward …
They become grandmothers. It is much easier to be a grandmother …
My mother … Great Grandma Dorothy Allsop with Faith and Steele May 1999 … Happy Mother’s Day Mama!
I love this picture! Where was it taken? Mom looks just like I like to remember her!!
This was taken at Kim’s mother’s house when these babies weren’t even a week old.
Beautiful writing…I loved it! So true.
Beautiful post — and beautiful photo!