Mothers Day is always the second Sunday in May. I am a mommy watcher. Throughout my life I’ve sought women role models. I empathize with some of the biblical women, especially with Eve in the Garden of Eden. Like her, I am not one to simply take orders. I want to decide for myself rather than simply doing what I’m told. And like Eve, who suffered the pain of childbirth, I suffered three times. Then there is the biblical Sarah. She laughed when God said she would bear a child. She was age 90. I laughed too when my gynecologist told me I was going to bear another child . . . and I was only 40!
Throughout my adult life, I’ve loved witnessing what I consider “good mommying”. Have you noticed that when you are a mom, you are a mommy to more than your own kids? A fourth-grade teacher at Lake Wilderness once confided that she was frequently called “mom” by my ten-year old son. Just as often, he mistakenly called me “Tina”, the name of his soccer coach. We were all sort of patient-but-strong mommy types so he apparently lumped us all together. However, when my dog’s chain got all tangled in a bush, I comforted her with, “Here Pebbles, let mommy help you.” And when I’d go out to feed the chickens, I’d call to them, “Look what Mommy brought you.” These critters don’t even recognize Mothers Day!
Biblical women, professional women, personal friends and family, I’ve had quality role models from many aspects of my life. Perhaps I’ll spend Mothers Day this year by interviewing my mid-life children to see how it all worked out.
Have a great Mothers Day.
