MOTHER'S DAY MEANS SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO EVERYONE

Like Christmas, Mother's Day 2011 has come and gone.  While some felt it was a good day, others could not bear the wait to get over it. What seems to have been most people's idea of the perfect day?  A Mother' day wherein all her children contacted her by one way or another to let her know what she means to them?  She may still be the same mother, though one who is mourning her own mother taken by the Grim Reaper.

There really are mothers who do not deserve the love and respect of their children.  And we must not forget that even women who did not bear their own children may be 'mothers' to someone else's. We may or not be mothers ourselves, but we certainly had mothers or envied others who seemed to have better ones, more loving, kinder...better,  like all that grass that grows greener on the other side of the fence.

With luck, a mother has gone through the day happily even though the mothers without their parenting partner may not succeed to that level of happiness to know they are loved by spouse and children.  Like everything else in our lives, context is everything in deciding who shall have a day of happiness or sadness.

I can only wish that everyone's was as happy as mine.  Not one element of making the day successful was missed.  May all mothers have such good fortune.