Mothers day
To my mama – thanks for all the science experiments like dissecting rats to see how they work, for making us sing show tunes while we cleaned, for teaching us how to adventure and find forts, for enforcing manners on us, helping us make hockey pads out of magazines, for the food fights, and spaghetti dinners, for packing 7 kids into a Chevy Sprint to go for the impromptu road trips, movie nights on the lawn, dinner with strangers from the street, weeks of work that were given as service – cause it’s not about money, gleaning tomato fields in the fall and canning sessions that ended in wonderful tomato fights. From the waterfights in the house, to the waterfights in Busters hills, for the mountain climbs while your back was broken, to the great long hikes that made up our days, for the dressing up like people we didn’t know for floats in parades, for the stories you’d read us that taught us to love to read, and the years of enforced volunteering at the library to teach us how rare it is to have that appreciation. For the hidden snacks on long trips, and the long talks when things ain’t going so hot. For being the ultimate defender of our rights, the pointer-outer of opportunity and our loudest encourager to take advantage of every opportunity we came across. For the frugality of going without, the understanding of true wealth, and the joy that comes with an eternal perspective – I owe it to you!
Love you ma, happy mothers day.