TOP 10 WAYS TO KNOW YOU’RE A MOM:
10. You count the sprinkles on each kid’s cupcake to make sure they’re equal.
9. You want to take out a contract on the kid who broke your son’s favorite toy car and made him cry.
8. You read that the average five-year-old asks 437 questions a day and feel proud that your kid is “above average.”
7. You hire a babysitter because you haven’t been out with your husband in ages, then spend half the night checking on the kids.
6. You can place any amount of food on a plate without anything touching.
5. You cling to the high moral ground on not allowing your child to play with toy weapons, so your son bites his toast into the shape of a gun and shoots his brother.
4. You use your own saliva to clean your child’s face.
3. You stop criticizing the way your mother raised you.
2. You don’t think twice about cleaning up after your child is sick.
1. You can continue eating at a birthday party when someone else’s child gets sick.
A cartoon
showed a psychologist talking to his patient: “Let’s see,” he said, “You spend 50 percent of your
energy on your job, 50 percent on your husband and 50 percent on your
children. I think I see your problem.”
Mothers are
tenacious. Line moms up against a foe, and you almost feel sorry for
their foe! The battles against abolition,
temperance, and suffrage were won by mothers!
In the face of injustice or wickedness, mothers don’t know when to quit. They succeed where others
have failed.
Generations of individuals have looked to their
mothers’ examples. They have drawn
strength from them to face adversity. A mother knows
that! A mother knows
she is at her best when she perseveres.
I read this somewhere recently:
Grandma, on a winter’s day, milked the cows and fed them
hay, hitched the mule, drove kids to school, did a washing, mopped the floors, washed the windows and
did some chores, cooked a dish of home-dried fruit, pressed her husband’s
Sunday suit, swept the parlor, made the bed, baked a dozen loaves of
bread, split some firewood and lugged it in, enough to fill the
kitchen bin, cleaned the lamps and put in oil, stewed some apples
before they spoiled, churned the butter, baked a cake, then exclaimed, “For
goodness sake” when the calves ran from the pen, and chased them all back in
again, gathered eggs and locked the stable, back to the house
and set the table, ooked a supper that was delicious, then washed and dried
all dirty dishes, fed the cat and sprinkled clothes, mended a basketful of
hose, then opened the organ and began to play, “When You Come
to the End of a Perfect Day.”
One woman prayed...
(A Mother’s Prayer):
Please let me keep on going, Lord, from dawn to setting
sun, ‘till I’m no longer needed, and all my work is done. Please let me be around to see my little ones grow
strong, and deep my shoulder handy for their tears when things go wrong. Please let me make our home a place they’re happy to be
in – and help me by example to keep them free from sin. For not until
they’re all prepared to face life’s rocky road, does any mother dare to drop
her burden and her load. It’s only then
that she can feel she’s truly earned her rest, as thankfully she whispers, “Lord,
I’ve done my very best!”
Today,
moms, take a rest. Stop and savor the greatest
success in your life: becoming a MOM!
Today the want ads read: MOM WANTED! But we realize that every MOM was a child first, and, like
every child, Moms need a Mother, too, because
they (like the rest of us) need
healing!
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
