Today, I am going to switch gears. I want to honor good mothers everywhere.
Mother’s Day Letter
Mothers, thank you so much for feeling honored to have your children. They are priceless, and our future. You give your entire life to growing these mold-able minds to lead us as we age. When their time comes, they will be the great leaders, scientists, and smart workers that you raised them to be.
Thank you for showing affection.
Thank you for the hugs.
Thank you for wiping away the tears, soothing the booboo’s, and giving copious kisses.
Thank you for reading them books at night.
Thank you for fighting to get the homework done.
Thank you for keeping them safe.
Thank you for creating safe social environments for your children.
Thank you for teaching them values, honesty, and confidence.
Thank you for making the decision to raise your children above all. We are now in a situation where some of us can finally choose to stay home full-time with our children, and I am so glad that the fighting between corporate women and stay-at-home moms is over.
Thank you for the peeping in on the kids at night, looking at them lovingly, and knowing that you would do anything, anything, to protect your child.
Thank you for telling your children often that you love them.
Your children are MY future. I want you to know that I realize this. I will be managing your children someday at work, and you are providing well-balanced children that will make my life a whole lot easier. When I am in AARP, your children will have our best interest at heart, they will be making massive changes in the world for the good. It is your children’s generation upon which I have the most hope.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Mr. Fabulous // May 8, 2008 at 8:35 am
You think you’ll make it to 50?
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2 Finn // May 8, 2008 at 8:44 am
I hope I live up to your expectations… that’s a lot of pressure!
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3 Tug // May 8, 2008 at 9:57 am
I’ve been reading your Mother’s Day posts…I wish this one could have been written to your mom (for your sake).
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4 Penelope // May 8, 2008 at 10:16 am
You’re in real danger of making me cry…don’t do that! ;o)
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5 Robin // May 8, 2008 at 10:43 am
Beautiful and so true. It’s seeing the truly disgusting and horrible mothers that makes you appreciate the really wonderful ones. I think I may do a post about Mother’s Day now
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6 Absurdist // May 8, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Fab:
Probably not. The way I piss people off these days, I will get capped before I am forty.
Finn:
You probably already do. Just by actually LOVING your child, that’s good enough for me.
Tug:
Thanks. but you know what? It felt really good to write this, because I felt like so many of you are such good moms, and cared genuinely for my situation and helped me to feel better.
Penelope:
Lay off the wine girl. ;-) I hugs you too.
Robin:
You are absolutely right on that one. what I can say is that, in my life, I have learned a lot about what NOT to do from people who do it wrong than what TO do from people who do it right.
7 Nat // May 8, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Thank you for this. I’ll take it but I am of the firm belief that it does take a village to raise a child. So if we all make kids a priority, the world would be a better place. (And that includes anyone who works with kids, helps my child, helps me… ) We don’t do it alone (except when it comes to cleaning up barf, then everyone scatters.)
(Your reply to my last comment got me all choked up.)
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8 whall // May 9, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I thank them too.
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Come on man. You know you want to say something!