Mother's Day

Mother's Day, a day full of love. We celebrate our Moms and all that they have done for us through the years as we remember our childhood as well as our own motherhood. I am blessed to still have my Mom here with us, still feisty and still looking at life from her unique perspective.

I think about my own childhood and what a magical time it was to grow up in the "pre-electronic" era. I am not going to get all preachy about how much better it was to be a kid in that simpler time as this is more about decades of memory, not just a few years in my life.

I think all of us have mementos that we made for our Moms and were made by our own kids in school; cards, pictures, poems and it they went to parochial school, statues of Blessed Mary.

Andy and his brothers usually made cards but I still have a special "coupon book" that Andy made when he was in first grade. The coupons were to be redeemed for various household chores, hugs and kisses. I never tore out any of the coupons to redeem them although I was tempted when Ace was in high school. No expiration date!

I am glad that I still have that coupon book. I look at it often and  even though it brings a smile to my face, it also brings tears to my eyes, especially on Mother's Day.

I am blessed to have three wonderful and loving sons.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms who read this and enjoy the celebrations of jobs well done in raising your children!

Ace's Mom ~ "There is nothing to be unhappy about" ~ Andy "Ace" Nowacki