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And a happy Mother's Day to all!(The Last Laugh)
For a day created by a huckster at Hallmark just trying to sell more greeting cards, Mother's Day never fails to turn on the tear glands in the eyes of those who celebrate it all over the world.
Each of us had a mother and many of us are or have been mothers, so we are all affected by this motherhood thing in some way or another.
Those prone to academic analysis might put it under their microscope or try to deconstruct it, but with all the emotions attached to this particular holiday, it would be easier to stop an avalanche.
Motherhood is forever
Somehow when I chose to become a mother, I had the impression that it was an 18-year gig, which ended when the child reached adulthood. It seems that is not the case. That was reinforced recently for me personally and explained in a newspaper article reporting that the magic age of actual independence and adulthood was now 26!
As a daughter, I've found that mothers have a way of talking to you, even from the grave. You hear their words and tone come out of your own mouth. You think of them when you see their favorite flower or catch a whiff of their best perfume or hear their special song.
There's a time in your life--about 35--when your worst fear is that you're turning into your mother. You watch your face for the same look, and are surprised when your hands look just like hers.
- Mothers at center of observance of Mother's Day.(Main News)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin May 8, 2005 700+ words
...campaign for a Mothers Day celebration in memory of her own mother two years after...their lapels on Mothers Day. She wanted to honor her mother for taking the...to the Blessed Mother. Celebrating Mothers Day on the second...
- Mothers Doing Time Reunited With Children They Left Behind
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Jill Nelson May 11, 1987 700+ words
...festival would end, the mothers abruptly transformed...softball game, a mother-daughter dance...women were serving 30 days or life. All that...was that they were mothers and their babies...to Alderson this Mother's Day, life has been irreparably...
- Mothers and Illicit Drugs: Transcending the Myths.
- Magazine article from: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology Hayford, Alison May 1, 2002 700+ words
SUSAN C. BOYD, Mothers and Illicit Drugs: Transcending...the spectre of the Bad Mother. In spite of all the...our social ills on Bad Mothers, and many politicians...the products of devoted mothers who have never spared...the spectre of the Bad Mother continues to loom large...
- Mother Boards provide guidance to churches.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Gray, Helen T. May 15, 2002 700+ words
...she would help her mother and mother-in-law, both church mothers, bake the communion...not think that one day she would be where...third Sundays and on Mother's Day. And when the congregation...service, many of the mothers are there. The mothers...
- Mothers, but not fathers, follow their own moms' parenting practices.
- Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health August 30, 2009 700+ words
...comes to how they raise their children, mothers today tend to follow the same practices their own mothers did, according to a new study that looked...these parents were treated by their own mothers. "We were surprised that mothers seem...
- MOTHERS.(appreciation of mothers)
- Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post May 1, 1999 700+ words
...make it well? My mother. Of the many tributes paid to mothers from the time of...their own cherished mothers. When I was eight...often worked seven days a week. My mother had us bathed and...every Sunday. One day I told my mother...
- Mothers Are Never Only Mothers.(Review)
- Magazine article from: off our backs Weinbaum, Batya December 1, 1999 700+ words
...and stereotypes of mothers. "Mothers are never only mothers," they write, "Simultaneously...point out that in any given day mothers typically negotiate between...the cultural image of the good mother, a stereotype that the authors...
- Mothers' Pap screening and STD history associated With daughters' uptake,...
- Magazine article from: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Thomas, J. September 1, 2009 700+ words
...vaccine if their mothers had had a Pap test...according to a study of mother-daughter pairs...comprised 148,350 mother-daughter pairs...the vaccine, and mothers had to have been...1.5-1.6). Mothers' abnormal Pap test...Among the 18,275 mother-daughter pairs...
