A toast to my favorite teacher
My favorite teacher is my Mom. I love my Mom and consider her to be a good friend and a great mother. She’s always done everything and anything she could, and beyond, for us kids. My Mom was a teacher to others for about 35 years, but she’s taught me all of my life. Sometimes she can be a pest, but I guess we all can. Sometimes she’s too sensitive, but that’s just part of who she is. When my father, brothers or husband tell me I’m just like my Mom, or that I’m turning into my Mom, I now look at that as a compliment. There are billions of much worse people I could be like. I didn’t always appreciate her, there were times I didn’t even like her. But now that I am a parent I get where she is coming from. I wish someday I am able to do as much for my children as she has done for me. She’s always there when I really really need her, and that goes for my children too. I’m a very lucky person to have a Mom like her. I love you Mom!
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I know how much you love your mom, because I hear it in your voice every day. My Mom doesn’t know how to accept “I love you” or “thanks Mom for every thing”, not because she doesn’t love us, but my Mom lost a son in 1981, and she has never been able to handle love being expressed verbally or physically, and we don’t know how to help her be happy thru holidays or birthdays, to her just living is enough and emotions don’t matter. Got any advise?
Accept her for who she is and do the best you can. My Mom has some big issues caused by the way she was raised. They don’t always make things easy or fun, but we do what we can to work around them.