What a beautiful sunny day, Mother Nature's way of paying tribute to all the mothers out there who give so much of themselves to their families. A mother is one who loves her family and works hard to make her children feel loved, safe and secure and making sure the family needs are all looked after.
It's funny how certain smells can trigger a memory that is simply "Mom". One of my memories as a young child is the smell of floor wax, crazy I know but when I was a child I remember coming in the house during winter and smelling the floor wax and the windows are all steamed up from Mom cooking and it is a comforting memory that all is right within my world at that time. When you think about it, back then the floor polish had to be applied to the hardwood floors on hands and knees and allowed to dry before the buffer was brought out. I know all eight of us kids would run for the socks when we realized mom was polishing the floors as that meant hours of fun running and sliding on the floors. I am sure mom didn't mind as one, it kept us busy and out of her hair for a good hour or more and two it added an extra sparkle to those floors. I laugh when I think about it and quite honestly I don't know how my Mom did it with eight kids to look after and my dad worked away from home for a lot of the time when we were young.
I do know that as a mother and grandmother it brings tears to my eyes to think about how overwhelming it must have been at times for my mom to look after eight children and run a household basically on her own with no car and living in rural areas. I do know that I always felt safe and happy and never questioned that there would be food on the table at mealtimes and a hug if I needed it.
So I take off my apron to you Mom as you were and are an incredibly strong woman to have raised eight children when I am sure at times you wanted to run screaming from the house.
Thank you.
Love your "Middle Child" or brat some of my siblings may say. :)
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