Happy Mother's Day

Today is Mother's Day. No better day was every created for you. I think that when you look back on your life that being a mother - and more importantly the kind of mother you are - will be your proudest memory. The kind of mother you are is so special. It is the one thing you can never lose, never regret and always be certain is the right way. Our children have not only learned to be the people they are from you, but hopefully have learned to be the kind of mothers they will be from you.

I too have learned from you. I have learned what really unconditional love can mean. I have learned what it means to completely put someone else before myself. I watch you do it with them all the time. It isn't always easy. It does necessarily come naturally. But you seem to do it with them so effortlessly.

You are a perfect mother. The kind that will leave such lasting memories for your children, your husband and every one who you come across in life.

The other night I was searching for some kind of verse on what motherhood really means. I found a poem by Edgar Alan Poe of all people on Mother's Day. While I know it isn't my text I am sharing, it really seems appropriate for you. I hope you enjoy it.

"Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of “Mother,”

Therefore by that dear name I long have called you—
You who are more than mother unto me,
And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you,
In setting my Virginia’s spirit free.

My mother—my own mother, who died early,
Was but the mother of myself; but you
Are mother to the one I loved so dearly,
And thus are dearer than the mother I knew

By that infinity with which my wife
Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life. "

While it may bother you that I incorrectly say "mommy" all the time. You are the mother that I think of when I think of the word mother. The three of us (me and the girls) are blessed that you are the mother in our family.

You're the world to me. I Love you more than anything in the world.