It’s Mothers Day and even though I’m a mother, it isn’t about me.  It’s about my mother.  You see, she wanted 6 children but that just wasn’t meant to be for her.  She had a horrible time bringing my younger brother and I into this world.  She (and my father of course) adopted a little girl that was sort of left on our doorstep literally.  These people asked my mother to babysit while they move and they never came back to get her so we adopted her.  She was about 13 months old I believe at the time.  Through the adoption process, my parents were asked if they would consider taking in a foster child.  They did and all of a sudden, I had an older brother.  My mother loved those two just as much as she did the two she gave birth to.

   My mother wasn’t your usual mother either.  Yeah she was a stay at home Mom until we were all in school and then she went to Beauty School and became a beautician.  Yes she kept the house spotless and cooked dinner every night from scratch and not from a box.  Yes she hugged and kissed each of us and welcomed all our friends into our home as an extention of our family.  She gave praise when needed and would bust our rears when needed too but all in the name of love and all with love.

   What was unusual about her was she rode a motorcycle herself instead of only behind my father on his Harley back in 1972.  My friends thought I had the coolest Mom there was when they saw that.  She listened to the same music I did and would even dance around the house to “Horse with no name”.  You should have seen that, I laughed my hiney off.  She even started driving 18 wheelers in 1976 and ended up training other women to do it too back when women just didn’t drive those things.

   Yeah, my Mom was and still is pretty darn cool.  She’s the glue that keeps the family together.  She’s the shoulder I lean on when life knocks me to my knees.  She’s my best friend, the woman I most admire in the world and I’m lucky enough to call her Mom!!!!    HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MOM!!  I LOVE YOU MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY!!!!!!