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Deb Fowler
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May the day be encouraging and the Lord lift you up to the love waiting for you...

I would like to post this poem as I do as often as I can for Mother's Day (my brother sent this to me a few years back..I am ever grateful for his gesture and want you to share it with as many as you would like. thanks Deb


This is for all the mothers who have sat up all night with sick toddlers in their arms, wiping up barf laced with Oscar Mayer wieners and cherry
Kool-Aid saying, "It's OK honey, Mommy's here."

Who walk around the house all night with their babies when they keep crying and won't stop.

This is for all the mothers who show up at work with spit-up in their hair and milk stains on their blouses and diapers in their purse.

For all the mothers who run carpools and make cookies and sew Halloween costumes. And all the mothers who DON'T.

This is for the mothers who gave birth to babies they'll never see. And the mothers who took those babies and gave them homes.

This is for all the mothers who froze their buns off on metal bleachers at football or soccer games Friday night instead of watching from cars, so
that when their kids asked, "Did you see me?" they could say, "Of course, I wouldn't have missed it for the world," and mean it.

This is for all the mothers who yell at their kids in the grocery store and swat them in despair when they stomp their feet like a tired 2-year old
who wants ice cream before dinner.

This is for all the mothers who sat down with their children and explained all about making babies. And for all the mothers who wanted to but just
couldn't.

For all the mothers who read "Goodnight, Moon" twice a night for a year. And then read it again. "Just one more time."

This is for all the mothers who taught their children to tie their shoelaces before they started school. And for all the mothers who opted
for Velcro instead.

This is for all the mothers who teach their sons to cook and their daughters to sink a jump shot.

This is for all mothers whose heads turn automatically when a little voice calls "Mom?" in a crowd, even though they know their own off spring are
at home.

This is for all the mothers who sent their kids to school with stomach aches, assuring them they'd be just FINE once they got there, only to
get calls from the school nurse an hour later asking them to please pick them up. Right away.

This is for mothers whose children have gone astray, who can't find the words to reach them.

For all the mothers who bite their lips sometimes until they bleed - when their 14 year olds dye their hair green.

What makes a good Mother anyway?
Is it patience?
Compassion?
Broad hips?
The ability to nurse a baby, cook dinner, and sew a button on a shirt, all at the same time?
Or is it heart?
Is it the ache you feel when you watch your son or daughter disappear down the street, walking to school alone for the very first time?

The jolt that takes you from sleep to dread, from bed to crib at 2 A.M. to put your hand on the back of a sleeping baby?

The need to flee from wherever you are and hug your child when you hear news of a fire, a car accident, a child dying?

For all the mothers of the victims of all these school shootings, and the mothers of those who did the shooting.

For the mothers of the survivors, and the mothers who sat in front of their TVs in horror, hugging their child who just came home from school,
safely.

This is for mothers who put pinwheels and teddy bears on their children's graves.

This is for young mothers stumbling through diaper changes and sleep deprivation.

And mature mothers learning to let go. For working mothers and stay-at-home mothers.
Single mothers and married mothers. Mothers with money, mothers without.

This is for you all. So hang in there.

Please pass along to all the Mom's in your life.

"Home is what catches you when you fall - and we all fall."

[ May 09, 2010, 12:41 PM: Message edited by: Deb Fowler ]

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ALAS'...!

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Jack Wills
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Thanks for posting that. *sniff*

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Marge Cameron
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First off you have to had a mother who was willing to do all these things. Or one who doesn't think having kids is a "disappointment anyway"! My family invented the word "dysfunctional"!

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my Holden Ute,
Retired from the rat race!

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This hits home... As this past saturday my husband and 3 yr old daughter went out to get some flowers for mothers day. I was home with our 9 mo. old little boy. I got a phone call that they were in an accident. They are okay. Sore, but okay... The car is totaled, but that can be replaced. My family is okay, and i thank God for that. My mothers day meant the world to me. I had all of my family to spend the day with.

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I figured this post wouldn't be offensive to anyone, but, instead, hoping it would give to others that never heard it. Even though a lot of us grow up in dysfunctional homes, we may know others that it would be true of or, give encouragement to all caregivers. [Smile]

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"It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney (1901-1966)

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