puppetmaker | Happy Birthday to My Mother 2011 Edition

Today is my Mother’s Birthday.

She is an amazing woman who raised four children who turned out well. She has many other achievements in her profession as a Professor at the Emory University Nursing School which she retired from a couple of years ago and finally stopped altogether this past year.

She enjoys teaching. Whether it is roomful of students or one of her children, she would always seem to be teaching us something. I learned so many skills from her, some consciously and other subconsciously

She is a great believer in leading by example. She didn’t swear so we didn’t swear. She would say please and thank you to us and expected the same courtesy. She raised us right and we became polite productive members of society.

Since she has retired she had received her Master Gardener certification from the Georgia Extension service, gone on trips around the world including a recent safari to Africa, and finally finish those mystery novels that she always wanted to get around to reading. She may have retired from the job but she is still active in the world.

She is also active in the lives of her granddaughters. Because of iChat and Facetime, she can spend time talking to them and getting to know them better than just letters and telephone calls. She reads this web log to hear about Caroline’s adventures and later asks her about them. From a young age Caroline knew what her grandparents looked like because she saw them on the computer, so when we got together there was no hesitation for hugs and kisses because these faces were not strange to her.

She has always been there for me no matter what the circumstance. I know I have her in my corner in both good times and bad and that has helped me through some pretty tough times. I know she loves me unconditionally and I love her the same. She is my Mom and she is wonderful.

Happy Birthday Mom! Hope it is a good one and we’ll try for an iChat this afternoon.

I am so so grateful that my Mother is my Mother.