Something great about your mom...

My mom and I don't always get along. She can have a sharp tongue and criticize till I'm in tears, but when the dust settles I can recognize her humanity. She's had it rough, has worked hard like a man her whole life, and always did her best to provide for us. She wasn't a single mom, but she might as well have been. My stepfather was more worried about appearances and how well HE was dressed than if we had food in the fridge or if she had a safe car to drive. I love her strength, her resilience and her ability to face adversity. She's a survivor.

Best thing about my Mom is me...lol
Without Mom's we wouldn't be here.
Like all the other comment on here....she is the best.
I put her through heck when I was young and 49 yrs later she still loves me. That's a Mom.
Happy Mother's Day ladies!!

I lost my Mom when I was 7. This is my 40th Mother's day without her. Although, I don't have many of "my own" memories of her. I know how much she loved my sister and I. I treasure memories shared by my mom's family. I think I'm alot like her....very goal-oriented. She was a Calculus/Trig teacher. I'm a teacher. She was an excellent athlete...as was I (back in the day). She was a very nurturing person....

I still miss her, but am SO grateful for the many good traits/characteristics she shared with me.

I love you, Mama!

My mom is the most compassionate, giving person that I know. I am especially grateful for all she does for my son. There really aren't words to describe how much she has done for me, especially since I became a mother myself 10 years ago.

I love my mom!
She`s hard working, smart, creative, and practical.
We`ve got along like peas in a pod since I can remember
and I can tell her anything. She`s the best

My mom never ceases to amaze me with her commitment to try new things. She delights in everyone and everywhere she travels. I have never met another person in the world who has as many friends and who loves life so much. She is so busy and yet she always makes me feel important.

Once I was moving and I was pregnant with my 3rd baby and my two boys were 4 and 1 and I was totally overwhelmed. She called to check up on me and I just cried on the phone. 10 minutes after we hung up she called back and said she got a plane ticket and she'll be at my house to help that night (I live in Oregon and she lives in Rhode Island.) I will never forget how she came so fast when I needed her. I was so surprised and grateful.

I had a wonderful mother in law who was a mother to me. She died 6 years ago and I miss her dearly. Here's to wonderful mother's in law!:)

My mother...hmmmm....she is one of the kindest women you will ever meet...unless you p!ss her off! My MIL has a heart of gold! I love them both dearly!!!

My mom is awesome!! When my dad died (I was 14, my bro 11) she raised us and showed us strength when I know she was not strong enough. She never let that show. She has fought her demons and through it all she has loved us the best way she could. Even if I didn't always understand her I have always loved her. She continues to love me unconditionally.

My biological grandmother and father abused me and my biological mom didn't want to acknowledge me as being her daughter. Therefore, the woman I call my mom has been the only - and best - mother I could have ever asked for. She knows all my little secrets. But, she still loves me unconditionally. Although she came into my life when I was an adult she has loved and treated me just like her own children for the last 24 years. Sometimes I feel as if we are even closer than her biological kids because we have a chosen bond - I'm actually more like her than her other children. Furthermore, she never judges and is always willing to be there for me - and others - no matter what. I never really knew a real mother's love until she became my "mom" and I am SO very thankful that God gave her to me. I am blessed and am a better person because of her and her love!

What a touching story. I bet she is as thankful for you as you are for her. Kepp enjoying each other

My mom has been gone for 17 years, she is missed every day. I have 4 sisters and a brother and there was always an extra person in the house when someone needed a little mothering. I always felt special and unique, even with all those people to care for she made time for each of us and and encouraged us told us we were wonderful and can do whatever we set our minds to.
When I was young and life was getting to tough we would cuddle in her bed and talk about all my small woes and worries, when we were done my world was right again. This happened on a regular bases, so with all my vast childish wisdom I thought the bed was the source of the feel good magic. Once when I needed my problems fixed and she wasn't available to meet my childish needs the second I thought she should I crawled into her bed and waited for my world to right. Yup you got it no magic, thats what I love must about my Mom is the mommy magic.
Mom I miss you and your magic, but you are always in my heart.

Despite how much of my past was riddled by innuendos of needing to lose weight, my Mom made me who I am. Ambitious, unique, and a complete package. I love her and no matter how much I get angry at her comments, I know it is from her own insecurity. She does "muscle past" much of the pain brought on by RA and Fibromyalgia, so I try to be as strong as her.

No matter HOW MUCH trouble I'm in as long as I'm telling the truth, she's ALWAYS got my back & will fight tooth & nail for me. I love her!

My mom was debilitated with mental illness. But she was brilliant and had a great sense of humor. She died last fall but I've missed having a mom for as long as I can remember. Lest anyone be confused: mental health care and the ability of families to secure mental health care for the people they love is beyond backwards in the United States. She died of cancer because of her mental illness. Really, more accurately, the cancer was a complication of the mental illness.

But because of her, I have found my mothering where I could. All you women out there who are important in the lives of children/younger people than you, I really feel like Mother's Day is for you too. My campfire girls leader who gardened and cooked anything and everything and had and used a stand mixer back in 1983. My childless aunts on both sides of the family who loved me no matter what. One is an artist and she nurtured that in me. The other looks exactly like my mom but is 10 years younger. She always always always understood me. My mother-in-law who treats me just like her daughters. She gives great advice and says bad words when we talk about asshats. And gives great counsel.

And my son, my firstborn. In mothering him, I found I could give myself the mothering I missed. And my daughter with whom I can have a mother-daughter relationship.

But it would have been nice to have a functioning mother.