mom's philosophy

I had just finished talking to my mom and getting ready for work when this overwhelming feeling hit me. It was one of those in the gut panic feelings that you know something is really wrong, ...

Laurie Walt from Silvis, IL

My mother is one of the most amazing people I know. She is always thinking of her family first. She often neglects her own needs, so she can take care of her family. This was most evident when ...

Barb from Waldorf, MD

Over 40 years ago my mother sat across the desk from a doctor who told her, "Mrs. Wingo, you just need to face the facts, neither one of your daughters will ever walk." My mother, a reserved ...

Sara Wingo from Hogansville, GA

God has blessed me with a mother who is strong and selfless. Since my sisters and I were little, my mother has been telling us to "do what's right, not what easy". As we all know, that's ...

Joan Seabury from Morris, CT

Every year my mom gives the women in her life an inspirational day-by-day calendar as the new year approaches. Though we live in different parts of the country, as family and friends, we ...

Mary Keyes from Aurora, Illinois

Mothers are what makes us who we are. All through my life my mom has alway been there for me, taking me to all my sport practices, music lessons, waiting for me in pouring down rain during ...

Linda Maples from Eureka CA

My mother, young and struggling, did not wear an apron or adorn her daily pearls. She was not in the kitchen baking cookies after school nor was she president of the PTA. June Cleaver she was not. ...

Rebecca DeGroot from Burlington, WI

My Mom is Such a Special person. She was sixteen when her mother got sick with cancer. She took care of her, until she passed away. I remember her stories about how, when she was growing ...

Shirley Junot from Addis, La.

My parents got married when they were 19 years old, after only knowing one another for six months. Both of my parents were in college, but quit when they had me two years later.Without ...

Mary Padget from Springfield, Ill

My mother is a fierce woman. Fierce meaning brave, strong-she is a force to be reckoned with. She is the oldest daughter in a family of 7 children. She played a part in raising her ...

Catherine Quinn from Fresno, California

My mom always bought up 6 kids with prayer at the supper table before we ate her home cooked meal. I have bought that tradition to my family and we always pray before we eat supper. We ...

Ruth Marhevka from Millington, Tn

From the time that I was a little girl my mother always told me to do what makes me happy. As I got a little older I always worried about everyone else. Worried more about making other ...

Carla Gibson from Louisville, KY

When we were little, my mom used to say me and my sister, "You know, you can always tell me anything, even when you get older and think you know everything." There were certainly times ...

Joyce Cox from Long Beach, CA

I have been so blessed to have my mother. She is my mother and my closest friend. In the Spring of her life, she raised me and my brothers in a good Christian home and sacrificed many things ...

Donna Sandoval from Kingsland, AR

On Easter Sunday of this year, my family and I sat around the dinner table together to celebrate. This may not be uncommon in most families. My family is not like most families. Our ...

Marsha Jones from Scottdale, PA

The littlest gestures of love a Mother shares comes from those "strange philosophical" words they communicate to us. Many a times do we never fully grasp their meaning until life throws its challenges ...

Joanne Caparoso from Kapolei, HI

My mothers philosophy, has to be one of the top ten most important things on that list- where ever it is, if it exists!???Mom always says, and believes and lives, by the facts that ...

Kathy Chapman from Washington Court House, Ohio

My mother taught me how to be compassionate, simply by her example. When we were growing up we lived across the street from the railroad tracks. There was a train depot where the train ...

Elaine Rodriguez from Fullerton, CA

My mom was just an ordinary mom. There was nothing "special" or heroic about her. She was just a woman who did her best to raise her children to be responsible, honest, and productive adults. A single ...

Kathleen from Wisconsin

We lost our beautiful Mom in November at just 60 years old. Though we will always miss her, we are so blessed to have had such a proud, wise and loving mother. One of the things that we ...

Patti Hunter from Harbor City, CA