parents
The boundless love a parent has for their child is matched only by their capacity to embarrass them.
Time
It was 615, so I thought and it was time to get ready for school! I must’ve been about 8 years old, my mom had my clock set, I hit it and up it was I go! Wash my face, brush my teeth, hit the shower, throw on my clothes and head to the table for breakfast! The same routine everyday and although I had to be to school by 7 and we lived a good 15 minutes away from school, I would always arrive to school before the bell rang! I was always on time, In fact, I was always a little early! I could never really figure it out, it was like time moved slow but only in the morning, or was I just moving super fast in the morning but not likely. I mean that early in the morning, me moving quickly that early in the am? Yeah I doubt it but what was I missing? I couldn’t figure it out but I mean it couldn’t hurt right?! Never having a tardy on my record, it was all working out!
By More Than Words5 years ago in Families
Ghost Story
You know how it is when you wake up sleepy and you can’t be sure if you’re still in a dream? Was it a dream or reality? Did my eye misguide me? I was still shaking the last strands of somnolence from my hair as I looked around for my mother. My mother? She’s 4-foot-10, a real Tokyo Japanese lady who weighed about 95 pounds. In my dream I hadn’t been in cozy quaint antiquated Frazier Park. The fuzziness was something from my teenage years: she’d been seeing me off at the train station. Grand Old Union Station, Amtrak’s flagship station in the Midwest and not Frazier Park. But it felt so real.
By Kumari de Silva5 years ago in Families
Come outside and look at Saturn
Come Outside and Look at Saturn By Valerie Adair Slater “Come outside and look at Saturn” with her graceful smile, was my cue I’d taken self-absorption too far. I’d reply with an eye roll but I always met her at the telescope to “see the bigger picture” and talk. When she could get a word in edgewise, she’d weave in her favorite advice. “Go put your feet in the sand or paint something but don’t wallow when there’re solutions” and we'd sit silently under the stars thinking about it.
By Valerie Adair5 years ago in Families
Boss Mother-in-law
I feel that I am the luckiest women in the world to have the mother-in-law that I have. She has taught me many lessons in the time that I have known her. She has helped me become the women that I am today and will teach me many more lessons throughout our lives. She has helped me become the mom that I am today by showing me how to teach me kids to be independent, hardworking citizens starting at a young age. She has taught me how to approach teaching my children to always tell the truth, because you will be in more trouble about lying that you would be if you told the truth about whatever it was that you were doing and not suppose to be. She has showed me how to handle having a never ending to do list and how to balance stress. She has helped me learn to budget our finances so the we can save to enjoy our lives with our children and retire when the time comes.
By Jessica Morrison5 years ago in Families
Thank You Mom💕
My mother was a wonderful person. She taught me many lessons, both by directly telling me what to do and by example. My mother worked at a factory before marrying my father and having a family. For the remainder of her life she was a homemaker. She grew up in a small town with her parents and siblings. She did not have much growing up, as far as material things go, but she had a loving family. When my mother married my father, she moved to the neighboring town where he lived and raised her own family. My mother loved her life as a homemaker. Even when my mother could have material things, she was not interested. She enjoyed the simple things of life. She liked to go for car rides, watch television, look at birds, deer and chipmunks, and spend time with her family. She hated to go shopping. One time my father planned to buy her a new car but the car she liked was an older model so that is the car he bought her. Most people would want a brand new car but that did not matter to my mom. Boy, did my father luck out on that trait!
By Margie Anderson 5 years ago in Families
LIfe Lessons from MOM
As I get older I have come to the conclusion that all the life skills or lessons I have learned, was from my mom, for example being a woman, housewife and mom, has been because of my mom. While I try to make my way threw this life I find that even though Im an adult now I still need my moms advice and her expertise when it comes to dealing with issues of various situations. My mom has been a major influence in my life as well as my brothers, When we were little kids my mom was a stay at home mom and I think that was a very important role for any mom to do, There's a lot of duties and responsibility being a mom and caring for the house, I have watched my mom is some many situations, She has always been the one who really taught us the important skills that we would need when we grew up, For as long as I can remember I have sat back and watched from a far and saw how she influenced our futures, Watched her clean and cook, She was always perfect in my eyes, I can say that I am grateful for being able to have her home during the time as a young child,It was a good feeling when i came home and she was there, I have always admired her for the way she knows how to deal with people professionally or personal, I have watched her all my life and many behaviors I have now, are because I have seen first hand how she deals with things, I understand how it must be hard to be a mom, grandma,I worry like her and feel the anxiety and stress of my daughter, just as my mom feels the same with me, I try to handle my troubles on my own, But she knows when i'm upset just by the sound of my voice, I don't like to give her any more worries, Its like my mom, daughter and I all connect telepathically, we have always had that ability, Every day I talk to her about something, She has been the one who is fixing what she can fix , and looking for solutions with the ones she cant, The people in my family all say I act like Grandma, I guess I don't see it, is that bad? I guess its true what they say about strong influences in your life, You take what you have been taught and use it when its your turn to run your house, I clean like her, I fold laundry like her, I cook like her, I tend to do a lot more things as I get older the same as she did all my life, I have learned many things that have carried me threw my whole childhood and teen years from her watching her put on her makeup, getting the house ready for company, setting the table, house hold chores and tasks, I tried to teach my daughter the same morals and responsibilities , that are needed as a person to function threw this complicated world we live in and to prepare her for when she gets married, and has to care for her family, or when she gets ready to move out on her own. I have done the best I could with her, When i felt like she needed advice or help with housework I would suggest a way to help her and she would get angry at me. I then figured it out that I was being like my mom, She would remind me of that as well, I don't think that it was bad if i sounded or acted like my mom, It just meant that I took what i learned from her and used it for good, There's many times when my daughter and I had many fights and arguments,, and even though she thought I was being picky about things, its the way I learned, and whats wrong with grandmas way, That's how , she wanted it done, I have always told my daughter do it right the first time then you wont have to fix it a second time. Now i know what she meant by pay backs are hell and just wait until you are a mom, You have a whole new way of thinking, Maybe my mom was a little ocd when it came to doing housework and laundry, I fought her just like my daughter, But I had no choice but to do what she asked, Or there would be a lot of tears and voices raised, I call my mom almost everyday and we discuss many subjects, I still call her up and ask her cooking questions and tell her about whats going on with me and my life, She gives me advice or suggestions, I use her advice to get me threw the day and sometimes give the same advice to my daughter, We even look a like, I have come to appreciate my mom more now then when i was young, I just thought she was so bossy and picky, I totally understand now, I have had to sift threw some stuff and make my own choices, Even though my mom had warned me not to, I did it any way and found out that she was right, It hurts when you have to admit that you were wrong when you were almost certain that you did the right thing, Whats really bad when you have to look at her and say "" MOM you were right? Shes been there for me threw many bad times, and I think we both learned from each other , how strong, the mother daughter bond is, If I didn't have my mom to show me and guide me, Who knows where I would be today, I have a whole new perspective on mother hood, and how much we as moms do our best to make sure that we give love and support to our children so that they can use the life skills for life, A MOM never stops being a mom, no matter how old we as children get, They always see us as their babies, Sometimes when my daughter has a problem, she will ask me for advice, I tend to think a lot like my mom and find myself repeating myself, I ask my mom for help with my daughter too, Its the same way when I was my daughters age and I did something my mom didn't like, My mom and I now get along better cause I understand what she has been saying for the last 52 years of my life. She told me on more then one occasion "" Wait until your a mom, and you'll see why I was the way I was when you and your brother were kids," I would look at her and think ""Wow, you really have your hands full, amd no wonder your always on us about keeping our rooms clean, having clean clothes, picking up after ourselves, We were reflections of her and she wanted us to look presentable, Many of the things I have done with my daughter when she was a baby, was because I learned all of that from my mom, and i still do many of those things today, So no matter how far she lives away from me, and i only get to talk to her on the phone, I will never forget all the good advice and support she has given me back when i was a teenager with a broken heart to now a widow trying to cope with my grief, She knows what to say to get me to stay calm, and not break down, I hope that when i am a grandma I can teach my grandchildren, what I was taught and have them use it to make their lives a good and happy one, Its been a crazy life but its been a learning experience for all of us, Every day we learn something new or reflect on what we were taught as children, It never stops, the world keeps spinning, and children keep learning
By andrea mattarelliano5 years ago in Families
The Queen of Everything
Screams and giggles and peals of laughter filled the living room, bursting out of me as my mom chased me, caught me and pinned me down playfully, demanding, "Who's the Queen of Everything??" as she tickled the breath out of me until I yelled back, "You are! You are!"
By Sasha Smith5 years ago in Families
