Gail C

You are hungry she feeds you. You fall down and she is there fixing your bo bo. Your feelings are hurt and she is there to mend them. You graduate she is there to guide you. You made a wrong choose she is there to comfort you. You are getting married she is there to share the excitement. You are having a family she is there with advice. Moms are moms no matter what age we are.

My mother has always been there for me even when most people would turn their back on me. This is after all what moms are for are they not? They love us unconditionally and without look for reward. I understand this role more know that I am a mother too.

As a child my mother was there to spark my imagination. She encouraged the play and the fun that children crave. She worked as my preschool teacher and went to college at the same time. I think she used me as her “test subject” in her major of early childhood education. I look back now and realize that she tricked me I wasn’t just playing but learning all that time!

Terrible twos, oh how do I understand what I put my mother through during these times! She always told me that I will get everything I ever did to her back two fold in my own children, how did she know that? I give praise to any mother in this year that in reality last until they are 5 years. During such a hellish time my mother was still most sweet and adoring. She taught me all she could through play, preschool and Sunday school. I understand know she was imprinting that good moral trait into my soul.

In the teenage years my mom was fun and kept encouraging my education and growth. I myself thought I had already grown and figured out all there was to know about everything. I would put my new found faith in myself to test plenty and always discovered I needed more study. I also discovered my mom really did have eyes in the back of her head! No matter what I was doing or planning on doing she used her mother power and some how knew what I was up to (which was normally no good). She taught me latter that there was no magic power or eyes on the back of her head. She just knew what I was going to do because she herself tried in once before.

In young adulthood I gave my mom tons of sorrow and worry. I thought I knew what was best but in actuality my mother still did. I am truly sorry for these years and how I hurt my mother. I made bad choices and did dumb things even when my mother instilled all those numerous years worth of good moral and education on me I somehow managed to ignore that part of me. My life seemed like it was doomed and my mothers heart was weaken. She had done all she could for me in her time to cradle me but yet she had to watch as I figured things out on my own. During all the times when she should have disowned me she still remained strong and I am certain remained prayer fast that I would remember my upbringing.

God works in wondrous ways. This is a known fact and a fact that I was taught way back at the beginning. I understand know that some times you have to go fall down to learn your lesson. My mother watched as a feel down and never gave up on me or herself! Thank you mom for your undying love and patience. I hope you are proud of what I finally have become and that you understand it is BECAUSE OF YOU!