What Is A Mother?                                                               

A mother is someone to shelter and guide us,

To love us, whatever we do,                                                                         

With a warm understanding and infinite patience

And wonderful gentleness, too.                                                                

How often a mother means swift reassurance

In soothing our small, childish fears,

How tenderly mothers watch over their children

And treasure them all through the years!

The heart of a mother is full of forgiveness

For any mistake, big or small,                                                           

And generous always in helping her family,

Whose needs she has placed above all.

A mother can utter a word of compassion

And make all our cares fall away,

She can brighten a home with the sound of her laughter

And make life delightful and gay.

A mother possesses incredible wisdom

And wonderful insight and skill -

In each human heart is that one special corner

Which only a mother can fill!                                    By Katherine Nelson Davis

 This picture shows a perfect mother ... gets the camera when she could be sooooo mad....at what we kids do.

My beautiful mother.

MOTHERS ,,,,,

Real Mothers don't eat quiche;

They don't have time to make it.

Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils

Are probably in the sandbox.

Real Mothers often have sticky floors,

Filthy ovens and happy kids.

Real Mothers know that dried play dough

Doesn't come out of carpets.

Real Mothers don't want to know what

The vacuum just sucked up...

Helping children experience new things.

Real Mothers sometimes ask 'Why me?'

And get their answer when a little

Voice says, 'Because I love you best.'



Real Mothers know that a child's growth

Is not measured by height or years or grade...

It is marked by the progression of Mummy to Mum to Mother.....


Cleaning up even with nothing to clean up with ...

Mom made so many wonderful things .. this tent just one example.   the other picture I always thought was just a fun picture of Larry and Dale but apparently Larry has dark green paint on his hands and there was green paint everywhere ....I marvel that it isn't on his shirt.

 

I have always enjoyed this picture of Mom nodding off .... she came to help when Lecia was born.