I LOVE my Mom!!!!!
My Mom is the GREATEST!!!!! I don't think a more wonderful, caring, nuturing woman in the world exists! Let me explain:
Yesterday morning I noticed that my bathroom sink was a little slow to drain. (probably all my hair) I make some small comment about going to buy some of that liquid drain cleaner and then I'm off on another topic. I see my Mom look at the sink for a few minutes, but think nothing of it. When I get home I notice that it's fixed! I call my Mom, just knowing she's the culprit. She calmly informs me that she pulled out the stopper and cleaned what she could but needs to go home to get my father's wrench and is going to dismantle the U-joint underneath to clean that out as well. WHAT? Oh and by the way she cleaned the other sink and the bathtub drain too. She showed up this morning with the mega wrench in hand! I tried to convince her that it was really unnecessary for her to go to all that effort and it was draining just fine now. She oh-so-calmly told me to go to work, she needed something to do with the baby today and this was the project she has decided on. Is she a crazy woman or what? Can you just picture my Mom and my 2-year-old under the sink cabinet? Then I just got a message from her at work saying that she had just finished cleaning the U-joints under both sinks and now she's off to the hardware store to replace one of the stoppers because she decided she didn't like the setup. She liked the other sink's stopper much better and she off to find a duplicate of one of those. And I am sure that will be done before I step in the door at 5:30 tonight!
Isn't she amazing? My mom doesn't quilt, rarely bakes, and is quite NON frou-frou. But she's a home repair WIZ! And she honestly thinks nothing of things like this - caring for her children is like breathing air for my mother, to NOT do these things would be painful for her.
I love her to pieces and I am so very lucky and grateful to have her in my life. I don't want to be a teacher, an astronaut, a firefighter......I want to be like my Mom when I grow up!
Yesterday morning I noticed that my bathroom sink was a little slow to drain. (probably all my hair) I make some small comment about going to buy some of that liquid drain cleaner and then I'm off on another topic. I see my Mom look at the sink for a few minutes, but think nothing of it. When I get home I notice that it's fixed! I call my Mom, just knowing she's the culprit. She calmly informs me that she pulled out the stopper and cleaned what she could but needs to go home to get my father's wrench and is going to dismantle the U-joint underneath to clean that out as well. WHAT? Oh and by the way she cleaned the other sink and the bathtub drain too. She showed up this morning with the mega wrench in hand! I tried to convince her that it was really unnecessary for her to go to all that effort and it was draining just fine now. She oh-so-calmly told me to go to work, she needed something to do with the baby today and this was the project she has decided on. Is she a crazy woman or what? Can you just picture my Mom and my 2-year-old under the sink cabinet? Then I just got a message from her at work saying that she had just finished cleaning the U-joints under both sinks and now she's off to the hardware store to replace one of the stoppers because she decided she didn't like the setup. She liked the other sink's stopper much better and she off to find a duplicate of one of those. And I am sure that will be done before I step in the door at 5:30 tonight!
Isn't she amazing? My mom doesn't quilt, rarely bakes, and is quite NON frou-frou. But she's a home repair WIZ! And she honestly thinks nothing of things like this - caring for her children is like breathing air for my mother, to NOT do these things would be painful for her.
I love her to pieces and I am so very lucky and grateful to have her in my life. I don't want to be a teacher, an astronaut, a firefighter......I want to be like my Mom when I grow up!
posted by EB @ 7:14 AM
2 Comments:
At 5:03 PM,
Anonymous said…
From the mom who installed the lighting along her front walk with her younger sister!!! I'd say you are well on your way and she's way better than any astronaut or firefighter!!!
Isn't it amazing how much we appreciate our moms now???? I hope they know that we do...we should probably tell them more often!!!
Try to remember this the next time she drives you crazy with something, too.
At 9:03 AM,
EB said…
oh yeah - I forgot about that!
Go me! LOL!!!!
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