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Poll | 05/08/2009 12:00 am

Aside from your own, of course, who is your favorite 'Mother'?

Read more about: Children, Jewelry, Mother Goose, Mother's Day, Mother's Day 09, Parenting, Relationships

43 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Pat Myrvold
Mother Teresa
By Pat Myrvold on 05/08/2009 6:05 am
My Kids Rock N
Amen girl! She is the epitomy of what a selfless person is and a role model! Happy Mother’s Day!
By My Kids Rock N on 05/10/2009 6:44 am
Momo Henson
GOOD answer! She was a wonderful human being. Very quotable in everyday life.
By Momo Henson on 05/10/2009 8:11 pm
Lucy Puniwai

My deceased mother-in-law was a dear friend and confidant. She remained my friend after her son and I divorced. She loved us both
and she loved our children. I miss her so much!

 

By Lucy Puniwai on 05/08/2009 6:54 am
caren gittleman
Lucy I have to say the exact same answer as you. I married my 2nd husband in my 40s and only knew my mother-in-law for 4 years. In 4 years she gave me more unconditional love, understanding and nurturing than my own mother did my entire life. Unfortunately my birth mother has mental issues (which have been undiagnosed) but are serious mental issues just the same. All 3 of us were verbally and physically abused as children (beatings with her fist and she was NOT a tiny woman) As an adult her verbal abuse never ceased. I tried many, many times to have a relationship with her but it has always proved to be more toxic than beneficial hence I haven’t spoken to her in over a year. I remember at 5 laying in bed at night wondering when my "real" mother would come to take me away from my birth mother. I always felt that my birth mother couldn’t be my real mother. My mother-in-law was my dear friend and confidant as well and she is dearly missed!
By caren gittleman on 05/08/2009 7:15 am
Patsy Jones

My two favourite other mothers are my daugters who are incredible mothers.  They each parent their two children differently from each other and yet are rearing four polite, intelligent, loving children who will make the world a better place.  These two mothers set examples of nurturning, boundaries, community service, and involvement in school activities.  My admiration for them is boundless.

By patsy jones on 5/08/09

By Patsy Jones on 05/08/2009 7:23 am
JJ GB
My Grandmother.  Yes, I had 2, but only one of them ever was a part of my life growing up.  She was "my mother" from age 6 when my own mother died, until she died at the age of 100.
By JJ GB on 05/08/2009 9:04 am
Patrice Baldwin

Ahhh, there ya go, JJGB. My grandmother is still in my dreams… not my mother. Gramma taught me to sew, to read, to play cards, to go to the library, to garden, … and didn’t kill me when, at age 4, I opened the door to the aviary and let out all her lovely birds. eeeek. I woulda killed me. But she was my baby sitter when my folks were soicalizing. She’d let me over turn all the chairs in the dining room and would bring me 3 or 4 blankets to put over them for a hidey hole… then bring me lunch in there. She always wanted me to work hard and learn about things by reading books forever. I’m sure she would be approving if she could see me tapping away on the ‘puter in the internet all day trying to help unemployed people who need a plan to survive. My grandmother came across the plains from Wisconsin in a conestoga wagon, fighting Indians, and that’s the way she went out while she was in the hospital for the last time… fighting Indians. What a lady!

By Patrice Baldwin on 05/08/2009 11:20 pm
Nancy Cleveland
It would be so easy to say "every mother" but I, too, have to choose my maternal grandmother (my father’s mother died when he was 13 ).  After all, were it not for her…..!  :)  That aside, she was widowed in WW1, left to raise four little girls on her own (her mother died when she was 14yrs. old, leaving her orphaned, to fend for herself).  Gran raised her girls while she worked as a spinner twelve hours a day, six days a week in a jute mill; kept a spotless home, faced and overcome many challenges throughout her life .  Her daughters each grew into strong, wonderful women, hard workers in and out of the home, also raising their own families and Gran was the glue keeping us all a very close, loving family.  The greatest honour in my life is having been named for my grandmother, the second being likened to her by my mother and sister as I get older…LOL.  She was a tough lady in her resilience.  Gran died seven weeks shy of her 100th. birthday in 1982.  If I have or can live up to Gran’s legacy I will consider myself not only a lucky woman but a successful human being.
By Nancy Cleveland on 05/08/2009 9:39 am
Deena B.
I’ve got to go with Mother Nature.  Without her, we have nothing.  All of the other mothers are pretty special, too, though.
By Deena B. on 05/08/2009 10:47 am
EKA -
Good Answer !
By EKA - on 05/08/2009 11:09 am
EKA -

I never knew my Grandmothers, one died before I was born, the other was a Grandmother to 35 grandchildren and died when I was young. My Mother has been gone for 27 years and I wish every moment of my life that I could have her back for just a day … 

But I am so fortunate to have an older sister who has become a mother figure to the whole family. She is the "keeper of the stories", the unconditional lover of everyone in the family, the one to hold us all together as "mother" would have done. She is a gem.

…. and as a coincidence, we spoke just this morning and she has made a decision to give her daughter, the only girl of the next generation, our mother’s diamond on Mother’s day, and called us ( my other sister & I ) to make sure we approve . Which of course, we do !

By EKA - on 05/08/2009 11:23 am
Elizabeth Roy

Nothing can take the place of my Mom and my  Grandmother, but I would have to go with Mother Nature.  Who else can give you the change of seasons.  A different day everyday.  New opportunities the chance for growth, and ever changing life.  Wow, with both you have everything.

By Elizabeth Roy on 05/08/2009 11:44 am
Suzanne de Cornelia
Inspiring and consoling Mother Nature.
By Suzanne de Cornelia on 05/08/2009 11:44 am
Maggie W

I adored my mother in law.  When I was teaching, I would use part of my summer vacation to go "up the country"  to stay with her and my father in law.  My father in law always joked that she would give him all the broken cookies and save the pretty ones for me. We had so much fun going to roadside vegetable/fruit stands and sitting outside watching the hummingbirds battle one another.   As soon as I walked in the door, a coconut cream pie was waiting for me.  When I’d leave, there was always a tiny gift….a  little coin purse, an embroidered hanky, a favorite recipe written on a card.   She left this world for a far better one six years ago. She will always be my heroine, along with my own mom , of course.

I also want to give a thumbs up to Mother Nature.  What is more majestic than watching that lady put on one of her dazzling lightning displays on a summer night?  But if she wanted to hold off on another hurricane this season, that would be most appreciated.

By Maggie W on 05/08/2009 12:33 pm
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