Mother's Day

Theodore Roosevelt said, “When all is said, it is the mother, and the mother only, who is a better citizen than the soldier who fights for his country. The successful mother, the mother who does her part in rearing and training aright the boys and girls, who are to be the men and women of the next generation, is of greater use to the community, and occupies, if she only would realize it, a more honorable as well as more important position than any man in it. The mother is the one supreme asset of the national life. She is more important, by far, than the successful statesman, or businessman, or artist, or scientist.”

I owe so much to my mother. The seeds that she planted in my life are still blooming today. She cast over me an influence which has lasted all my life. The good effects of her training in my early life have stayed with me, and if I am honest play a part in most decisions that I make. Thomas Edison said it like this, "I was a careless boy, and with a mother of different mental caliber, I should have turned out badly. But her firmness, her sweetness, her goodness, were potent powers to keep me in the right path...My mother was the making of me." I agree with Edison. Special Honor to my mother, she has done and is doing a great job at rearing her boys.

In a turn of events that I had absolutely no control over, God completely and overwhelmingly blessed me by sending me a wife and a friend, who is a truly great mother. There is no one (understanding I might be a little biased) who takes their role as mother as serious as Jen does. I can't begin to describe the hours of thoughts, prayers and conversations that she logs while being our children's best advocate. She really has their best interests at heart at all times. The way she loves her kids is really a thing of beauty. I married a mother (a hot one at that!) and my life and the lives of my children are enriched all because of her. Special honor to her, she is smack in the middle of her job as a mother, and by all accounts she seems to enjoy it.

Other mothers in my life, especially my mother-in-law, grandmothers, and aunts all occupy very important and influential roles in my life. I am thankful for all of them.