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This day reminds me of the blessing my sons have been and are to me.
It also reminds me of my very first Mother's Day and many others over the years. My first was, in some ways, a very inauspicious start to the series of them through my life. My son's father (and I use the word advisedly as he was over all, a father in name and biology only) wasn't all he could have been. I had been a Mother only a few days when Mother's Day arrived. I was SO very proud. After all, I had produced the most beautiful, intelligent son anyone could ever ask for!
All day that Sunday the tv played sports and misc that my husband preferred. By evening I was in tears as not one word had been said, there were no flowers, no card, nothing. I did all the usuals of baby care and husband care. Finally I asked him, "Do you know what today is?" His reply? "Yeah, I've been kicking myself for the past few hours 'cause I haven't called my Mother."
Do you understand why he's an EX????
Since that time I've received wilted wild flowers, crayon cards and all the love any Mother could desire. My sons are smart, honest, warm hearted and intelligent. They are there for me totally in times of need. They are worth anything and everything I suffered through with their biological father. Because of them he is forgiven for anything he ever did to me. Not, of course, for the neglect and abuse he heaped on them.
Later we had JD. He was a father in every way that is important. I am so grateful they got to have a real father in their lives. And so very grateful I got to have him in my life for more than a quarter of a century.
On this Mother's Day I'm remembering a real and wonderful Father.
It also reminds me of my very first Mother's Day and many others over the years. My first was, in some ways, a very inauspicious start to the series of them through my life. My son's father (and I use the word advisedly as he was over all, a father in name and biology only) wasn't all he could have been. I had been a Mother only a few days when Mother's Day arrived. I was SO very proud. After all, I had produced the most beautiful, intelligent son anyone could ever ask for!
All day that Sunday the tv played sports and misc that my husband preferred. By evening I was in tears as not one word had been said, there were no flowers, no card, nothing. I did all the usuals of baby care and husband care. Finally I asked him, "Do you know what today is?" His reply? "Yeah, I've been kicking myself for the past few hours 'cause I haven't called my Mother."
Do you understand why he's an EX????
Since that time I've received wilted wild flowers, crayon cards and all the love any Mother could desire. My sons are smart, honest, warm hearted and intelligent. They are there for me totally in times of need. They are worth anything and everything I suffered through with their biological father. Because of them he is forgiven for anything he ever did to me. Not, of course, for the neglect and abuse he heaped on them.
Later we had JD. He was a father in every way that is important. I am so grateful they got to have a real father in their lives. And so very grateful I got to have him in my life for more than a quarter of a century.
On this Mother's Day I'm remembering a real and wonderful Father.
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