It’s Mother’s Day and today we celebrate mothers everywhere and their contribution to the world. I looked for a picture of my mother in the stacks that desperately needed attention and came up with this one.  She was young, maybe unmarried, I don’t have a date on it.  She married Dad right after WWII and they had my oldest sister a few years later. Eventually they had 3 daughters. I resisted using the one of her in a bathing suit.  She might have come up from the grave to chase me with a stick!  She was a piece of work.

    The second picture is my daughter who is now a mother too.  This adorable photo was taken when she was about two years old.  She has been my lifelong friend as well as my daughter. I had her with I was barely 20 and I had to practice motherhood on her.  But when her brother came along was when I really became a mother.  Women with one child are mothers, but women with multiple children should be canonized before death.  I have a niece with 8, my grandmother also had 8, and I have a friend who raised 5 on her own.  I only thought I was stressed.  Stressed, but blessed.  I couldn’t have survived without them.

This morning, I received this handmade pottery for Mother’s Day.  The Lotus Potter in the Oklahoma City area (www.thelotuspotter.com ) makes beautiful pottery and she even threw in a necklace to go with the bowl and tumbler.  Check her out!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there and to the people who made them mothers!