Mothers

Questions answered by six year old kids:
What's the difference between Moms and dads?
…. Dads are taller and stronger, but Moms have all the real power 'cause that's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.
…. Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your Mom do in her spare time?
…..Mothers don't do spare time.

If you could change one thing about your Mom, what would it be?
…. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
…..I'd make my Mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.

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The world would be much better if everyone had been blessed with a good mother. The position of mother has changed over the years.  I see mothers on the daily mug shots. 
                  BUT NOT THIS ONE!!!

Mothers can teach, love and protect her brood. Give instructions for the right roads to take, but when we take the wrong one, she grieves but knows she did her best. She can teach us to have clean hands and a pure heart. But some of us are like the old country song that says:
“I should have done what mama told me, but I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream”

(Mama and my brother Jr. Just before he went to War, WWII) 

But this is about my mother on Mother’s Day. In my entire life with mother I NEVER ONCE SAW HER ANGRY. She was the picture of calm. 

                       (Mama and me)

She was the perfect mother and pastor’s wife.  She juggled both with love. In my youth families had family drop in and every bed was used and pallets on the floor. WE had the normal plus evangelists who would stay with us, Mama seemed no different with them as us, but I know it doubled her work.

She always had time for a bedtime story or to stop and kiss a scratch to make it better. When I decided to catch snakes and put them in her canning jars, she only said, “Jackie, take them outside and turn them loose.”
When I was raising Quail and my dog killed them all, she showed me how to clean them and we had a big quail supper.
When I brought a baby crow home to ‘learn it to talk’ (My friends said it would work), she showed me how to feed it corn bread and water until it could fly on its own (without learning to talk!). She made sort of a ceremony to let it fly away. Then we sang the song, “I’ll Fly Away”.

(Me and mama in the back of Jim & Shirl's Studebaker p/u truck)

She was bedfast for the last years of her life. My wife Sherry and Sister Shirl took care of mama, treating her like a queen. Once from her bed she could see some men working on the road. She told Sherry to see if they wanted some water or something to eat.

That was mama!

Nite Shipslog
PS: I did a tribute to Sherry's mom awhile back, She was a wonderful mother. She was also the best Mother in law in the world.

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 1904 Susie was born.

The 1905 Vauxhall, built when mama was born.