Really Understanding What Mother’s Day Means
Mother's Day represents all the good things mothers do for their own families and the benefits each new generation gets from their efforts.
By Colleen K Pulley
It is hard to believe another Mother’s Day is here again. The Easter stuff, and Spring Sale signs are replaced with Mother’s Day Sales, and cards, candies, and bath sets. Amazing!
I do have to say that Mother’s Day is one of my favorite holidays. Part of this is because I have been the recipient of many of those homemade cards, and my share of burnt eggs and toast. But just as important it gives me a chance to reflect not only on my own Mother, who died when I was twenty-two, but all the other Mothers who have touched my life in one way or another.
My Mother lost her mother when she was five years old. It was 1924. Her Father never remarried, and her sisters, who were eleven to fifteen years older than her, raised my mother. When I was young, she would occasionally tell me how much her mother would have loved being around her grandchildren. Mom said she missed her mother a lot, even after forty years. Being ten, I didn’t understand what she was feeling. I understood her words somewhat, but not the emotions that brought a tear to her eye.
Too often we do not appreciate our mothers. We rebel against them, make them cry, and think they will never understand us. But as we get older, we begin to understand them a little better. It doesn’t seem quite so important who was right or wrong. Somewhere along the line the things that separate us get a little more blurred. We become more tolerant. Gradually we are able to transcend the differences. We begin to realize that they were there during the hard times, and the good times. They baked cookies with us, taught us how to sew a button on, and disciplined us when we didn’t do our chores.
As the years go by, we become mothers and do many of the things our mothers did. Eventually, we lose our mothers. We must then become the female role models for our living posterity.
Over the years countless children have been hugged by their mothers, had their BOOBOO’s kissed, and been cheered on as they struck out at a baseball game. It doesn’t matter if you are four or sixty. If you have your mother, she will get the same feeling of happiness when she puts her arms around your neck and tells you “I love you soooo much!!”
Believe me also when I say it doesn’t matter how long she has been gone from this life, you can still get a tear in your eye and wish just for a moment you could hear her tell you she is proud of you. Don’t worry about the puzzled, uncomfortable looks on your kids’ faces. One day they will understand what you’re feeling. In the meantime, HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all. Until later...Colleen
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