Happy Birthday to My Mother 2019 edition
Today is my mother’s birthday.
My mother had a lot to do with shaping the person I am today. Starting with carrying me for nine months for which I will be forever grateful.
My mother leads by example. She knew/knows we watch her behavior and that becomes our methods of behavior.
One of the many things she taught me from an early age that I learned from observation is to treat everyone the way you like to be treated. Be polite and respectful of the other person. Everyone who is doing a job, no matter how menial you might think it, deserves respect and civility.
I watched her fight battles so that women that came after her didn’t have to. She is still doing it in her own way.
Last night I made hollandaise from scratch from a recipe she has in a cookbook she made for her children. It tasted just like hers. I feel so good every time I use one of her tried and true recipes and it turns out just like what she would cook.
She knows a lot about gardening. She can identify plants just by looking at them. She has done her research on the topic and used that knowledge in her gardens. This year might not look as nice as previous years due to the temperature fluctuations causing some things to bloom too soon. But it will still look amazing. I did not inherit her green thumb but having managed to keep a houseplant alive for over six years now, which is a record for me.
I learned a number of parenting tricks from her that I used during my stage management career and even at Del Rey books. The biggest probably being to make sure you listen to the other person and make sure they know that you did hear them.
Happy Birthday Mom, hope the day brings you lots of lovely things.
I am so very grateful that my mother is my mother.
My mother had a lot to do with shaping the person I am today. Starting with carrying me for nine months for which I will be forever grateful.
My mother leads by example. She knew/knows we watch her behavior and that becomes our methods of behavior.
One of the many things she taught me from an early age that I learned from observation is to treat everyone the way you like to be treated. Be polite and respectful of the other person. Everyone who is doing a job, no matter how menial you might think it, deserves respect and civility.
I watched her fight battles so that women that came after her didn’t have to. She is still doing it in her own way.
Last night I made hollandaise from scratch from a recipe she has in a cookbook she made for her children. It tasted just like hers. I feel so good every time I use one of her tried and true recipes and it turns out just like what she would cook.
She knows a lot about gardening. She can identify plants just by looking at them. She has done her research on the topic and used that knowledge in her gardens. This year might not look as nice as previous years due to the temperature fluctuations causing some things to bloom too soon. But it will still look amazing. I did not inherit her green thumb but having managed to keep a houseplant alive for over six years now, which is a record for me.
I learned a number of parenting tricks from her that I used during my stage management career and even at Del Rey books. The biggest probably being to make sure you listen to the other person and make sure they know that you did hear them.
Happy Birthday Mom, hope the day brings you lots of lovely things.
I am so very grateful that my mother is my mother.