Happy Mother's Day

Mother's Day.....
Different families have different traditions and those traditions evolve as the family dynamics change. Growing up, My 2 grandmothers, my mother, my two sisters and I would go to the mother-daughter banquet or breakfast at either the Palermo, New Haven or Mexico Methodist Church. And we all got carnation corsages. There used to be a significance as to what color your corsage was but I can't remember what it is now. At our church, they would recognize Mom's: youngest, oldest, etc. It was pretty common for Mom to get recognized as the Mom with the most children since there were seven of us.

My mother and mother in law have been very supportive of me, my husband, Jeff and my children. I thank them for all the help they gave us, especially they early years of raising our children.


My first Mother's Day was 22 years ago. The day before, I gave birth to my identical twin boys 6 weeks premature. My husband bought my card before he even knew they were going to let those boys finally see the light of day (I had been hospitalized for 5 days.) I think back fondly of the gifts my three sons made in school for me. You do your best raising your children and hope that they are happy and successful in what ever they do. I can proudly say that I believe that my sons have achieved that.