Sunday, May 13, 2007

Happy Belated Mother's Day!






A mom believes in you before you were even born.
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A mom carries you in prayer before she ever carries you in her arms.
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A mom can disguise a vegetable in a hundred ways to get you to eat it.
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A mom can take a simple bone and make the most fabulous soup with it.
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A mom can sew you a dress for a special occasion and make you feel like a princess when you finally wear it.
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A mom can crochet your first baby a blanket and send it half way across the country reminding you that you are not alone, but years and years of wisdom are behind you.
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A mom is always in your heart, even when you've left her home to start your own.
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A mom will tell you she loves you in the most awkward places, especially when you are a teen.
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A mom will kiss your face off your whole life.
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A mom can make every birthday feel like its your most important birthday -even when you're 45 years old.
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A mom doesn't mind messes as long as you are learning something - and she's always wanting you to learn something, so there's always some sort of mess involved.
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A mom is the first person you look for when you come home and walk through the house.
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A mom may look humble on the outside, but she's really rich on the inside, especially when her children are all home around her table.
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A mom never stops praying for you, even when everyone else does.
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A mom has hands that are busy blessing, and blessing, and blessing...then blessing still more.
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A mom makes a simple shelter into a loving home - apartment, house, hotel, or even a tent.
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A mom can see something delectable in the refrigerator when you see nothing whatsoever.
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A mom makes sweet summer memories at the seashore or the lake.
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A mom can kiss away a "boo boo" better than any doctor with all his training.
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A mom can find pocket change in the most obscure places and then take you out for some fried clams and a ride on your bike on a hot summer evening.
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A mom might weep for a night, but there will be joy in the morning.
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A mom is the first person you think of when it's time for dinner.
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A mom can set a table with a well worn tablecloth and mismatched dishes and leave you longing for the same meal again in the same week.
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A mom can make the most ordinary tasks so pleasurable - like taking a bath full of bubbles with soft, squishy toys and duck shaped facecloths.
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A mom can take four plain walls and cozy them up in the most comforting way possible on the tightest of budgets.
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A mom can make the most arduous task seem a little easier with the promise of tea and toast at the end of it.
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A mom makes you feel secure in a crazy world - especially when you are two or fourteen.
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A mom always seems to be home when you need her.
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A mom smells so good, like a rose or a lavender bloom just freshly picked.
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A mom can make a simple bed so soft and comforting with lots of scraps of cloth sewn tightly together or yarn crocheted into a pleasant pattern.
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A mom can really listen like no other, so when you walk away you feel you've really been heard.
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A mom can take a fistful of flowering weeds and adorn the table with them in the prettiest vase making the little giver smile at supper time.
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A mom will help you with homework no matter how late it is or how hard it is for you to get it.
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A mom will help you to hug your dad when you are so mad at him - and vice versa.
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A mom will help you look your best at her expense.
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A mom is always trying to reorganize something, rearrange something, or repair something.
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A mom can be called on no matter what time of the day or night -she's always on call.
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A mom can laugh and the whole room lights up.
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A mom often has a baby on her hip or a toddler clinging to her leg - even if she's 60 years old.
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A mom's work is so hidden until she is sick or called away to help someone else.
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A mom is there to nurse you back to health and to prevent you from getting sick in the first place.
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A mom is the first person you call when you are sick at school or out of the country.
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A mom teaches you how to make your husband's favorite food bonding you forever.
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A mom will help you to understand your father when he's the least understandable.
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A mom can take four simple ingredients and make the tenderest tortillas.
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A mom can take the worst day and turn it around with a plate of homemade chocolate chip cookies and an old movie.
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A mom can make you want to get up in the morning with the smell of bacon and biscuits wafting through the house from the old kitchen.
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A mom can plant some seeds against the wall of the house, and the most beautiful grapes vines begin to grow because she prayed first over the seeds.
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A mom can say a joke that no one gets, but everyone starts laughing because she's laughing so hard before she's even finished.
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A mom can look so beautiful in your mind's eye out at the clothesline on a windy day.
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A mom can look so ordinary at home, but when it's time to go out, she looks like some sort of beauty queen.
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A mom will put portraits of you all over the house - even in the bathroom.
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A mom will run outside to help a neighbor in need - even when she has a cake in the oven.
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A mom can paint and reupholster the ugliest chair and make it absolutely beautiful - then put it in your room - so that each time you look at it, you remember her transformation.
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A mom always wants to know how your day went and if you missed her as much as she missed you.
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A mom is always up before you are.
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A mom always wants to know if you slept well.
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A mom can make an old kitchen the most memorable room in the house.
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A mom will listen to the doctor, then do a bit of her own doctoring as well, which helps his prescription work even better.
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A mom will teach you things you never knew you learned until you have kids of your own.
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A mom is always snapping your photo and then showing it to anyone who will look, especially strangers in grocery stores standing in line.
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A mom can stretch a tight grocery budget to its limits and leave only the most sweetest memories of comforting foods.
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A mom will write you letter after letter when you are the most lonely in an obscure part of the world.
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A mom will take you blueberry picking for two weeks straight in the hottest of summers, but you'll never forget the blueberry biscuits in the dead of winter on a blizzardy day.
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A mom will teach you how to make peanut brittle when your little brother is out with Dad.
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A mom can play music in the house that you never forget your whole life.
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A mom will read to you as though she has all the time in the world.
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A mom is a resource of recipes, remedies, and diaper rash treatments.
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A mom will teach you God's Word which gives you your first thirst for the Book of Life.
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A mom never fully falls asleep until everyone is home.
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A mom can make an ugly striped rug look better, or a floor full of holes look better just by her special touches here and there.
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A mom will seem so much younger when she's around her friends reminiscing making you realize for the first time that she was indeed a teen once upon a time.
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A mom teaches you your first prayers.
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A mom can make a rainy day so special with chicken soup, hot bread, candles, and a fire going in the fireplace.
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A mom is full of help and hope and honor.
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A mom is a storehouse full of childhood memories - her own and yours.
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A mom will be there when your heart is breaking because someone was mean to you just when you thought he liked you.
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A mom can figure out an answer to a problem because she's always talking to Jesus.
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A mom is found at every ballgame, play, dental appointment, recital, or race.
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A mom can get a stain out, a sliver out, and a sickly cat out...all in one hour.
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A mom is worth fighting for - as any junior high boy finds out at his first summer camp.
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A mom can talk on the phone like no other woman and then call it her "phone ministry."
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A mom will stand outside in the street waving until your car is completely out of sight, and then she'll do it all over again if you've forgotten something.
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A mom can tell something is wrong the minute you say, "hello" on the telephone.
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A mom will cry just when you least expect her to and when you most expect her to.
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A mom is one of the most memorable women on earth.
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Happy Belated Mothers Day!

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