A is for absolute adoration, affection, astounding admiration, at times all-consuming anxiety and always. Once a mother always a mother; the bonds never lessen, weaken or fade. I am 41 and my mother still calls me to find out why I wasn’t home the last time she called. The “burning the candle at both ends” song has never faded from her repertoire. I get scolded for doing things wrong and lectured when I take on too much.
A mother is always on duty. From work, from home, for a newborn to an adult child or grandchild, mommy can fix it, find it, feed it, sometimes may it go away or hold on until it gets better.
A friend of mine lost her mother earlier this year and still finds herself going to the phone in the morning to make her daily call. I have another friend who has been quite ill and her mom has been her biggest champion. Finding help for the home, covering for her at work, driving her where she needs to be and watching her children when that is what needs to be done. Her mother is a force of nature under normal circumstances and I know that if she could, she would heal her daughter,s wounds and take away her illness and pain by the sheer power of her will.
We are mommies and we have had mommies, some of us in the most fortunate of manners and some us still recovering from the scars, but no matter what else happens in our lives, motherhood will always be part of who we are.
I’m all verklempt.
I can only hope to be as good a mother as my mom was. I’m still trying to learn how she was so patient and why didn’t I inherent that gene?! Is the difference really in the sex? She had only girls & now I have only boys. Your post really said it all today. I think we (moms) all agree when we are out without our kids & you hear someone calling “mom”, we still turn around.
Nicely said and I couldn’t agree more. My husband is one of those recovering from mother scars and, even though I’ve only met the woman once, I will never forgive her for being a rotten mother to him. Luckily, my mom has enough goodness to go around!