Happy Mother's Day 2019

 

Wishing all the mothers in my life a happy day,

With the hope our rotten children won't forget to say

"Thank you Mom, for all the many things you've done for me

Because, without mothers, where would any of us be?"

"Mother" isn't just a word for women who gave birth,

She's the one who loves you more than anyone on Earth.

Mom's the one who props you up when you aren't feeling strong,

She's the one who has your back when everything goes wrong,

I know that I'm very lucky...  My Mom's still alive:

Healthy, active, social, and alert enough to drive.

Her son and her daughters count our blessings every day,

Not just on some random Sunday in the month of May.

Goodbye Adam

 (The McCarthy Middle School talent contest version, Adam in a kilt, was better.)

I spent this year's Mother's Day at Adam Gregoire's wake.

It felt like a nightmare and I thought my heart would break

At the pictures of the boy who used to hang around...

Ate and slept here.  Yet, today, they'll lay him in the ground.

He was such a lovely boy; so funny but so sweet.

Taught our son to play guitar and how to keep a beat.

I can still remember them - in triumph on the stage.

Such a talent gone from us at far too young an age.

Both my sons attended with me and they made me proud

As we stood in line and waited with the massive crowd

Come to say goodbye and offer useless sympathy

And, like all but Adam's mom, thank God she wasn't me.

The World's Best Mom

 

I know many people think their mother is the best,

Standing head and shoulders higher - above all the rest.

Hate to be the one to tell you this...  It isn't true,

Not unless my perfect mother is your mother, too.

True that my mom cannot cook a meal to save her life,

That she made a better mother than she did a wife,

But she taught us loyalty, compassion, how to share,

Honesty, determination, love (she's lots to spare)

Courage in a crisis, taking time to hold a hand,

Making do when things aren't working out the way you'd planned.

My mom does all that and more and thus, by any test,

I feel confident in claiming, my mom is the best.

Dear Future Daughters-in-Law...

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Sunday will be Mothers Day; I'm breakfasting in bed.

Pop-Tarts and some orange juice is what I'm, likely, fed.

I'm the mom of teen-age boys who don't know how to cook.

Hope my future daughters-in-law let me off the hook.

My 2 don't know how to clean...  Their rooms?  Disaster sites.

Any modern woman will be well within her rights

If she should decide that she's not all that fond of me.

It will be my fault my sons don't help - Just wait and see.

Good thing they're both handsome, tall, and charming, loving guys.

(Future wives will have to give me credit for those eyes.)

Sorry, 'though they never learned the concept of a chore,

I still think they're wonderful and couldn't love them more.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mother's Day to my mom; Laurel.

Wishing Happy Mothers' Day to those of us with kids...
Even those, like me, who wish (at times) to open bids;
Sell the rotten child who's talking back to me... And then,
I remember why I love the stinker once again.

May be something simple like an extra hug or kiss...
Thank yous you do not expect; the fact they didn't miss
Telling you, on Mothers' Day, how special that you are.
Little things like that (with mothers) get you pretty far.

Hope your children don't forget... And, for the rest of you;
'though I'm not your mother and can't tell you what to do,
Still, I'd strongly recommend that you take my advice;
Call your mothers Sunday... And, some flowers would be nice.