Today's Happy Thing Sunday, 10 May 2009 – Thanks, Mom (the best, woman, kids)

[MidwesternBookWorm]

My happy thing today is stubbornness.

Sounds like kind of an odd thing to be happy about, I suppose. But it's the greatest legacy I received from my mother, who was unquestionably the most powerfully stubborn person I have ever known.

My mother's stubbornness carried her from a dairy farm in upstate New York to nursing school.

It brought her to Detroit, where she met and married my dad.

It got her through the sorrow and sense of loss over nearly a dozen miscarriages, to the two pregnancies she managed to carry to term.

It gave her the gumption to go back to graduate school for her Master's degree after she and my dad divorced, and from there back into a whole new career.

And when she learned that she had Stage III breast cancer, a few months after her sixtieth birthday, her stubbornness let her confound the doctors by living fully, intentionally, and with great joy for another seven and a half years, which was about four years longer than any of her doctors had told her she'd live.

Thanks, Mom.

So what is your happy thing on this or any other subject on this fine Mother's Day?

[stacieberry]

Originally Posted by MidwesternBookWorm

My happy thing today is stubbornness.

Sounds like kind of an odd thing to be happy about, I suppose. But it's the greatest legacy I received from my mother, who was unquestionably the most powerfully stubborn person I have ever known.

My mother's stubbornness carried her from a dairy farm in upstate New York to nursing school.

It brought her to Detroit, where she met and married my dad.

It got her through the sorrow and sense of loss over nearly a dozen miscarriages, to the two pregnancies she managed to carry to term.

It gave her the gumption to go back to graduate school for her Master's degree after she and my dad divorced, and from there back into a whole new career.

And when she learned that she had Stage III breast cancer, a few months after her sixtieth birthday, her stubbornness let her confound the doctors by living fully, intentionally, and with great joy for another seven and a half years, which was about four years longer than any of her doctors had told her she'd live.

Thanks, Mom.

So what is your happy thing on this or any other subject on this fine Mother's Day?

Wow your mom sounds like a amazing wonderful woman! I am sorry to hear about her passing!


I am happy for my mom too! She did so much for me. She lived with a hateful mean, cheating, beating man. She stayed and prayed and loved and he turned his life over to God and now is a preacher! She loved me when I was horrible to her. She took me back in after I ran away and loved me and helped me get over my fears. She gave so much for me to be better and wiser and she deserves the best. She even put her school on hold to help me when I got divorced my my first husband. To help me get on my feet and take care of my son. She is my hero and I love my mom. I see now why she did do things she did and I think she is the smartest person I know and the most loving!



To all mom, step moms and dads who have to be mom and dad oh yes and grannies and aunts or sisters happy mother's day! Thanks for doing it!

[bjh]

Wow, your moms showed great persistence! Good for them!

And thank heaven for all the parents who give so much for their kids! I wish all children had such parents.