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jlf1961 -> Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 4:14:12 PM)
I thought it would be nice for someone to start a thread about the fond memories of mothers. They took care of us when we were sick, made us wear those stupid clothes on Easter, and who can forget the "you want me to kiss it and make it better" when we got hurt and always managed to find the most embarrassing photos of our child hood when we brought a date home. But each of our mothers had those little quirks that made them special to us. For example, my mom was not your typical mom. In 1967, she bought a used '66 dodge charger that had belonged to the APD vice department. A few weeks after she made this purchase, we were coming off the base after a trip to the commissary. She was at a traffic light when a young airman in camaro pulled up next to us, he sat there revving his engine, so when the light changed, mom dropped the clutch and stomped it. The airman was left at the light, and mom got pulled by a local cop for speeding. He was nice about it, gave her a warning after informing her that he estimated she was doing 90 when she passed him. Mom smiled, and said, "thank you officer, but I have had this car over 130 twice since I bought it." The car pegged at 150. The morning after my 18th birthday, my first legal drunk, she walked into my room banging a sauce pan with a hammer announcing we were going to mass. She was at my graduation from jump training in the army, she even put the wings on my uniform, and pressed those nice sharp pins into my chest drawing blood.

shiftyw -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 5:30:48 PM)
My mom rocks! She's just so awesome. I've been afraid of needles for a long time so after vaccinations she would always take me out to get doughnuts (which has actually translated unfortunately into my adulthood- only now I buy my own doughnuts). She went above and beyond to help me with my horse my whole life. She taught me how to work and how to make money and save money and so many things some of my peers seemed to have missed out on growing up. I love her. My mom is now one of my best friends.

Lynnxz -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 8:29:25 PM)
My mother is 100% positive she has the best/brightest children on the planet. You should hear her go on about us. She has an open, loving heart, to the point where I never know who's going to be at the house for holidays, because she invites people who have just immigrated and have no families here, people who just have no families for the holidays, and any one else she can squeeze in the door. She is the head of the special ed program at her school. Often, she tutors children on the side, trying to get them up to grade level. Normally the cost for something like this is exorbitant, and the families can't afford it. I think she has one family that pays just 5$ a session, and the kid has made ridiculous improvement. Awe Mom <3 [:)][:)][:)][:)][:)][:)]

jlf1961 -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 8:31:18 PM)
But did your mamas know how to rebuild a short block chevy? Huh? Huh? I am joking of course, your mothers sound terrific, I thought the world of mine, and she passed in 2008.

ExiledTyrant -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 8:31:42 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lynnxz My mother is 100% positive she has the best/brightest children on the planet. You should hear her go on about us. I trust you agree with that, right?

Lynnxz -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 8:31:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: jlf1961 But did your mamas know how to rebuild a short block chevy? Huh? Huh? Nah, she'd just bat her eyes at Dad until he did it. quote: I trust you agree with that, right? I'm pretty sure she thinks I am a world class neurosurgeon, my brother will be the next top engineer for Tesla, and my sister will be the prima ballerina for [insert ballerina job here]. She's adorably delusional, in a mom sort of way.

ExiledTyrant -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 8:35:36 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lynnxz quote: I trust you agree with that, right? I'm pretty sure she thinks I am a world class neurosurgeon. She's delusional, in a mom sort of way. Well Lynn, I have yet to see you say or do anything that would make me disagree with it. I was just curious how you felt about it. Pop out the humble cork and tell me what you really think. Jus sayin Exiled

Lynnxz -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 8:41:56 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ExiledTyrant quote: ORIGINAL: Lynnxz quote: I trust you agree with that, right? I'm pretty sure she thinks I am a world class neurosurgeon. She's delusional, in a mom sort of way. Well Lynn, I have yet to see you say or do anything that would make me disagree with it. I was just curious how you felt about it. Pop out the humble cork and tell me what you really think. Jus sayin Exiled It's easy to edit your stupidity out on the internet, most people just choose to let it ride. OH. We should include grandmothers. My grandma calls me every year on my birthday, and sings me 'Happy Birthday'. It's mindnumbingly adorable; I save all of the voicemails. Last year she forgot and I was unreasonably sad about it, until she called a week later. She was a nurse as well. When I had my first run in with an angry surgeon, (sweet jesus, the man had no social skills), she told me some of her angry MD stories. She had a cranky surgeon throw a pair of scissors at her head in the OR. In an age where nurses were supposed to hop up from their chairs and open doors for doctors, she snatched them out of the air and threw them back. Apparently, that was the last issue she had from him. She also warns me about dying my hair blonde. Apparently, I "might look like a whore!" Thanks Grandma. Love you too.

jlf1961 -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 8:43:21 PM)
My mom, like I said, was not like other moms. She was one of four daughters in a family of 13 children. Grew up on a farm, if she wasnt helping her mom with house work, she was helping her dad either milk cows, work on the tractor just like the boys. She also had a strange quirk, if she told you to do something off the wall, you really need to do it. Once when I was driving a truck and laid over in Reno NV, I called her to wish her a happy mother's day. She told me I needed to play poker. Got into a game of Texas Hold em, went in with 3 grand, left the table with 13,500. After I moved back home, and Tami was her care giver, we rescued a white chow mix. Mom named him lucky. We asked why, and she said you'll see. When the mail ran, she got a retirement check from social security for back pay they had shorted her for 3 years, it came to just over 1700 bucks. We got the letter notifying her about it 3 days later. Of course, the one thing I really remember is one night we were driving home from having coffee with her co workers and some friends of mine (her kids) and I had done pretty good playing poker that night, won about 300 bucks. I said "I love seven card stud." Her reply was, "I prefer 9 inch stud myself." I didnt say a word, and she asked, "Did you hear me?" I said, "Yes mom, but I chose to ignore it." My mom was Catholic, and this was years after her and dad got divorced.

ExiledTyrant -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 8:45:34 PM)
I'm not busting your chops. Some mothers are the antithesis of yours, and I was curious how well you carried that confidence she instilled (or attempted to) in you on through your life.

Lynnxz -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 8:53:41 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ExiledTyrant I'm not busting your chops. Some mothers are the antithesis of yours, and I was curious how well you carried that confidence she instilled (or attempted to) in you on through your life. She gave me the confidence to roll into a interview for a top university- so much so that I told the faculty interviewing me that I didn't think the program would be, "that hard". (wut.) It worked, apparently, I got in. I was 100% full of shit for that interview, but she had pumped me up so much that I did really well. She pushed me to go to a 3rd world country to work in a roving medical clinic. She came too, working in the 'pharmacy', and I spotted her trying to brag about me to some lady who spoke only French. Wild gesturing, and super loud, "THAT'S MY DAUGHTER!! MY BABY!! SHE'S A DOCTOR!!" No, jesus christ mom, no I'm not. Stahp. Despite all of this, she's never been a 'helicopter' parent. She will push and cheer for days, but when it comes down to it, everything is up to you. I ended up with pretty awesome parents.

ExiledTyrant -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 8:56:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lynnxz quote: ORIGINAL: ExiledTyrant I'm not busting your chops. Some mothers are the antithesis of yours, and I was curious how well you carried that confidence she instilled (or attempted to) in you on through your life. She gave me the confidence to roll into a interview for a top university- so much so that I told the faculty interviewing me that I didn't think the program would be, "that hard". (wut.) It worked, apparently, I got in. She pushed me to go to a 3rd world country to work in a roving medical clinic. She came too, working in the 'pharmacy', and I spotted her trying to brag about me to some lady who spoke only French. Wild gesturing, and super loud, "THAT'S MY DAUGHTER!! MY BABY!! SHE'S A DOCTOR!!" No, jesus christ mom, no I'm not. Stahp. Despite all of this, she's never been a 'helicopter' parent. She will push and cheer for days, but when it comes down to it, everything is up to you. I ended up with pretty awesome parents. Ya know, that sounds suspiciously like your mom is 100% right. Jus sayin Exiled P.S. You better give her some extra special loving on mothers day. I HAZ SPOKEN!

smileforme50 -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 9:55:50 PM)
My mom is....well....to me full of surprises. She was always the very quiet unassuming one in the group. You never know what she is thinking. When I was growing up, I would tell you that her "talents" were cooking, knitting and crocheting....very traditional, feminine things....not surprising or remarkable at all. But when she got older, it was like she blossomed, and I LOVED it. She got into making stained glass crafts.....I knew she could knit and crochet, but I never really considered her very "artistic". But wow....she totally took off with the stained glass. I have a kaleidoscope that she made me and I look at it all the time. It's a shame she had to stop doing it. She also amazed me at how she figured out how to do things on her own. She never had any qualms about putting things together or trying to fix things on her own. I remember when we got our first computer back in 1995. I got it secondhand from a relative. It was a little compact thing with the monitor and CPU all in the same unit. 14.4 modem (remember those???) and had Windows 3.1. We had it for a couple of months and she decided it needed more memory, so she found out what she needed, went out and bought it, got a few tools and had that unit apart and was putting the memory cards in the slots. Most people I know didn't even know what memory cards were back then. I still wouldn't have any idea where to ever START doing something lke that, plus I would be too afraid that I would totally damange it beyone repair. She's become quite a computer whiz.....and 90% of it has been self taught. Not bad for someone who didn't graduate high school. But it breaks me heart to think about all of this and see her now with her health severly declining. My grandmother.....she was a rocket. She was in her 80s and was sharp as a tack. She was always very aware of what was going on in the world...in the news, politics, progress in technology....and she didn't get past 8th grade, but you would have never known it. While she was the supportive wife and homemaker, she had very progressive political beliefs.....especially women's rights. She supported abortion rights before Roe v Wade, she stood up against domestic violence even before the phrase "domestic violence" became common, and she loved the idea that it was now acceptable to live with a partner before (or even without) marrying them. She always told her grandchildren that what they needed to do.

Blonderfluff -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/14/2014 10:04:07 PM)
My mommy. (Yes, I still call her "mommy") is a one of a kind, goofball. She raised all of us to think for ourselves, while she RARELY ever thought of herself. She made sure we always knew what her beliefs, values and morals were, without imposing them on us. She faced crisis after crisis, and yet I always felt safe. She reacted to the revelations that 2 of her 4 children were gay with grace, love and acceptance. She has never judged us for our choices, condemned us for our mistakes, or blamed us for our failures. She loves her grandchildren with the fiercest love I have ever witnessed. Now that my children are almost grown, I can only hope that I have given them a modicum of the love and peace that my mommy still gives me.

ShaharThorne -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/15/2014 5:14:57 AM)
I live with my Mom because we are both disabled...we take care of each other. We both got crushes on the Property Brothers. She thinks I don't know about the bottle of spiced rum in the pantry. We both have back problems (right hip on me as well) so we see the same pain doctor. I tell her dirty jokes to make her laugh. I screen phone calls so she won't get scammed. We are both celebrating that my eldest (middle) brother is no longer in Afghanistan but has a job where he does do spot checks in other countries. She loves her grandkids to death. One got a nose piercing while she was visiting her mom in Florida for Christmas. Lizard got a MM piercing...I loved it, Mom rolled her eyes. Lizard has it out now since she is job hunting and donating plasma (okay, selling). If there is a Coke in the house, you can bet she is going to make a float.

smileforme50 -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/15/2014 7:29:57 AM)
quote: We both got crushes on the Property Brothers. That reminds me of a time a couple of years ago Mom and I were on I-495 coming home from an appointment and the weather was pretty warm. She wasn't feeling her best and her breathing was getting to her, when we got a flat tire. She pulled over and called AAA and they said it would probably be about an hour and a half before anyone got there. She begged them to try to send someone sooner because she was really getting short of breath and it was getting worse and she needed to get home quickly. The AAA operator said they would do the best they could. About 20 minutes later as Mom was starting to have a bit of a panic attack and I was trying to keep her calm and tell her not to worry, a white truck pulled over and stopped in front of us. It wasn't a tow truck, but it was some kind of specially equipped pickup, and it had some business logo on the side of it that neither one of us caught. Out of the driver's side stepped the HOTTEST, BEST-LOOKING guy I have EVER seen in real life. I mean....I've seen pics of hot looking actors and male models....but I've never seen a guy this good looking in real life up close. ESPECIALLY in Delaware. We BOTH looked at him, and then looked at each other as our mouths dropped open. I, of course, had to get out of the car to explain the problem and "show" him where the spare and jack were (I'm always helpful that way). But I was shocked when I looked up and saw my mother getting out of the car....in spite of how exerting it was for her. We both stood there while he fixed the tire, looking him up one side and down the other....as she was fighting to keep her breathing under control. When he finally finished....which didn't take nearly as long as we wanted it to....she went to give him her AAA card, and he said "Oh....were you expecting someone from AAA?" She (of course) had to take that opportunity to touch his hand... When he pulled away we both just sat there watching that truck get smaller and smaller, then looked at each other again with out mouths open. Then she said to me "Damn Kath....you should have yanked a couple of wires and then asked him to look under the hood...then we could have had him longer..." And that little bit also reminds me of the time she took me to see a gynocologist for the first time when I was 12 or 13. HE was REALLY nice looking too. On the drive home we were talking about him too. I was telling her how during the exam he showed me how to do a self-exam of my breasts. And she said..... "You know Kath....with a guy that good looking you should have said "Doc I'm not really sure I understood all of that....could you go over it again?"

theshytype -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/15/2014 7:10:51 PM)
quote: My mother is 100% positive she has the best/brightest children on the planet. You should hear her go on about us That's my mom, also. She is definitely the reason behind my confidence. My mom is a little neurotic. Really, who isn't anyway. When I was young, I really didn't get along with her at all. She was prim and proper, an English major that seemed more concerned with my grammar than anything. She oohed and awed at everything I did and I mistook it for pressuring me to be perfect. I took her, and what she taught me, for granted. Then I grew up and now fully appreciate everything she taught me against my will. And now, I'm driving my own kids crazy the same way she did to me. Now, my mother and I will talk about everything, which usually includes a lot of laughing. I also believe my insanely dirty mind and sense of humor came from her, though she denies it and says it came from my dad. I know this is a thread about mothers, but I also have to give props to my father. I feel blessed to have two wonderful parents. They're complete opposites, down to the way they grew up, and I feel as though I have been given each of their positive attributes. Really, it seemed the only way they were alike was how they both wanted their children to feel more loved than they had. I really could go on and on and on about how much I love and appreciate them but I'll spare you all the gushiness.

shiftyw -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/15/2014 7:49:20 PM)
Yah, I second the idea of thanking my father too. I'm spoiled rotten by him. We have really similar personalities and senses of humor. We poke fun at ourselves and each other together and he is always so concerned and worried I'm not doing what I really want to or that I could do better. I love turtles and I remember he had found one living in our pond and we waited for hours for it to come out...and he just taught me a lot about them while we waited- and if he didn't know something he would take me to the library to learn with me. He's always taught me to learn and just constantly remember to follow my own interests even if they don't really lead anywhere.

GoddessManko -> RE: Things we remember about... our mothers. (3/15/2014 8:13:09 PM)
Both of my parents were the oldest of seven kids, both of them raised their siblings. When my mom got tired of living in my dad's shadow, she left her new house and car, came to the US with nothing (sleeping in a hallway and making $5 an hour while paying half the rent at my aunt's) and built herself a real estate empire. I was much closer to my dad (we're so similar personality wise I think it scares my mom, LOL), but I learned a lot from my mom about strength. My dad had the intellect, my mom was business savvy. My dad was the nurturing parent, she was the one who forced you to go it alone. Having everything wasn't enough for her, unless it was something she earned through hard work and grit. She has an unbreakable spirit and she made me tough as nails. :)

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