RAYMO’S RAMBLINGS–DESCRIBING MOMS
What can I say about moms on Mothers Day? What is motherhood? What does it mean to be a mom? I think moms are pretty amazing, all moms!
As I sit on my couch contemplating and thinking about my own mother, my wife as a mom, my daughter in laws as moms, friends as moms, coworkers as moms, my mother in law as a mom, my sisters as moms, my sister in laws as mothers, my nieces, cousins, they all are amazing moms, but yet they each are all so different as a mom.
You know it’s really hard to put into words trying to describe what a mom is, because I think it’s so much more than giving birth, changing diapers, protecting your children as they grow and doing the things moms are supposed to do. I read in a Mother’s Day card this week, trying to put into words what a mother is and it said “Motherhood, it’s a feeling, not an explanation.” How true is that? I love that!
Most of you know my wife Roxie, Roxie and I started dating when we were freshman in high school, and this year we celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. As long as I’ve known her, all she ever wanted to be was a mom, we had discussions about this all the time cruising around Madison in the early 70’s in my Ford Galaxy 500 when we were in high school, We would sit in my car outside of DeToys after school or a ballgame and visit about this subject often. Did you know DeToys had car hops back then?
So after high school, most of her friends went off to college and started careers. She did to, went to college, but her career became being a mother. And the lady I call my wife became a mom for the first time on June 30th 1977, two births later and adopting a beautiful girl from Korea completed our family. I admired her strong desire to become a mom, even at a young age. Once a mom always a mom, and she has done a fantastic job at the occupation as a mother!
If I were to describe my own mother, I would say how she made me feel so loved by her all the time!! Family to my mother was number one, if we all could have lived in the same house even after we were all married and had children she would have loved that. Everyone together all the time! That was my mom!
Motherhood it’s a feeling, not a explanation!
Happy Mother’s Day
