Mothering Heights

For those of you who are called "Mom, Mother, Mama, etc" on a daily basis, sometimes rather repeatedly, I salute you as the day in which we honor all mothers, is close at hand. It does not matter whether children are born of your womb, or of someone else, in which this child, to you has been given. What truly earns you that coveted title, is the unconditional love and acceptance as well as the devotion to providing a safe and stable (as possible) environment for which this person for whom you are responsible can grow to become a positive addition to the human race.

I would be remiss in not stating there are those who produce biological offspring who should never bear the fruit of humanity. For every wonderful loving mother, there is an abusive and despicable excuse for what the term "motherhood" represents. I prefer to honor the deserving , instead of chastising the never should have beens.

I loved my mother but we had our moments. There are things I have had to forgive and perhaps she had to do the same of me. She was a storybook perfect grandmother who left nothing but kind and loving memories for my children to look back on. I was the one who held her hand as she uttered her very last breath and it is a moment I will always be grateful for. She knew I loved her and I knew she loved me.

I am now the grandmother of four lovely children who give me such great joy. I am so very proud of my daughter who has experienced some good times and difficult times, which can be motherhood and life but no matter what, she always will love and guide her children while they continue to grow up all too quickly. I aspire to be half the Grandmother that my mother was. I am and have always been strongly opinionated, artsy and compassionate toward others. My thoughts may not always resonate with my children's but I respect them and they respect me.

I wish all of you Mothers or those who are thought of lovingly as such, a wonderful day with those you have loved and nurtured in this world and as angels in the next.