Mothers are quiet Angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. Then stand by us and give us the strength to try…
Hugs…
There’s something in a simple hug
That always warms the heart;
It welcomes us back home
Makes it easier to part.
A hug’s a way to share the joy,
And sad times we go through,
Or just a way for friends to say
They like you ’cause you’re you.
Hugs are meant for anyone
For whom we really care,
From grandma to your neighbour,
Or a cuddly teddy bear.
A hug is an amazing thing-
It’s just the perfect way
To show the love we’re feeling
But can’t find the words to say.
It’s funny how a little hug
Makes everyone feel good;
In every place and language,
It’s always understood.
No special equipment needed,
No batteries or parts-
Just open up your arms
And open up your hearts.
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It’s Mother’s Day! 24 hours where you get to see what a perfect family would be like.
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If you have young children maybe ORDERING IN is easier than going out!
Plant a flower or tree for mom in the garden. It will always be a reminder for  your mom (and you) about this special Mother’s Day gift.
Family Portrait or Make a Family Album of special moments with Mom.
Do more chores, make your bed.
Get your mom a gift that will give her a night off every week or month,- a course or activity, or club, movie night, etc.
A Massage or Spa Gift Certificate
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50 Inspirational QuotesA collection of inspirational quotes on mothers coming straight from the hearts of some of the most prolific writers and celebrated personalities of our times.
1. If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much. Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
2. Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he’ll end up hating you.
3. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
4. At work, you think of the children you have left at home.
5. Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
6. As is the mother, so is her daughter.
7. Men are what their mothers made them.
8. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
9. We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
10. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
11. The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
12. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
13. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
14. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
15. Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
16. That best academy, a mother’s knee.
17. Making a decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
18. Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother.
19. A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
20. Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
21. The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
22. No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
23. Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
24. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
25. Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
26. All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
27. Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.
28. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
29. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
30. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
31. A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
32. All mothers are working mothers.
33. The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
34. Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand.
35. It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
36. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
37. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
38. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.
39. Nobody knows of the work it makes
40. If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
41. Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
42. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
43. When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
44. No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you – life
45. An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
46. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
47. If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
48. Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
49. Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
50. And remember that behind every successful woman……is a basket of dirty laundry. |
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To Value A Job Well Done
“If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”
Time Travel
“If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”
Logic
“Because I said so, that’s why.”
Foresight
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”
Irony
“Keep crying and I’ll give you something to cry about.”
Osmosis
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”
Stamina
“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”
Weather
“This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.”
Hypocrisy
“If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!”
Circle Of Life
“I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.”
Behavior Modification
“Stop acting like your father!”
Envy
“There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do.”
Anticipation
“Just wait until we get home.”
Receiving
“You are going to get it when you get home!”
Medical Science
“If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way.”
How To Become An Adult
“If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.”
Genetics
“You’re just like your father.”
Wisdom
“When you get to be my age, you’ll understand.”
Justice
“One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you”
“I’d like to be the ideal mother, but I’m too busy raising my kids.”– Unknown
The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she’d have children if she had it to do over again. “Yes,” she replied. “But not the same ones.”– David Finkelstein
A little boy forgot his lines in a Sunday school presentation. His mother was in the front row to prompt him. She gestured and formed the words silently with her lips, but it did not help. Her son’s memory was blank. Finally, she leaned forward and whispered the cue, “I am the light of the world.” The child beamed and with great feeling and a loud clear voice said, “My mother is the light of the world.” – Bits and Pieces, 1989
A teacher gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a written test, she included this question: “My full name has six letters. The first one is M. I pick up things. What am I?” When the test papers were turned in, the teacher was astonished to find that almost 50 percent of the students answered the question with the word Mother– Unknown