Today is my Mother's birthday. She died 12 years ago just before turning 70. Its hard to believe she would have been 82 today. How I wish she could have lived to that age.
My mother was an amazing woman. She could accomplish more before 10 am than I can in a week. By that time every day her house was clean, laundry done, and some kind of baked good would be in the works. Most people grew up with a cookie jar, we had a cookie drawer. It most always had fresh baked cookies waiting to be enjoyed. The afternoon might find her making a dress for one of her girls. I remember many times coming home from school with a new dress waiting, ready to have the hem measured. Perhaps she spent the afternoon visiting teaching some of the ladies in our ward--who usually lived right on our street. She may have been out tending the beautiful rose garden we had in the back yard, or chatting with Mrs. Bertolligo.
She lived a simple life. Family was the most important thing to her. Times were different then, she didn't live with her rear end in the seat of the car like I do. She never went to the McDonalds drive through for a Diet Coke. (Of course there was no McDonalds for miles around back then, but there was the Polar King.) Maybe if I stayed home as much as she did I would accomplish a fraction of what she did--but probably not. I have too many distractions...TV, Facebook, Blogs...that eat up my time in not very useful ways.
I will never be the kind of woman that my Mother was. I just hope that when I am gone, someone will think my time on this earth was worthwhile, her's certainly was.
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Julie--Thanks for the beautiful tribute to Mom. She was truly a wonderful woman and we were blessed to have her as our mother.
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