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My family has a front row seat to the worst of me…. the “mean mom”, curfews and chores, yelling and grounding, saying “NO” more than I needed to. I threw Thanksgiving Dinner in the garbage one year in a fit of anger over something stupid. I still feel bad about that. They have loved me in spite of me. They still love me! That is the only Mother’s Day present I will ever need. My children and their children … scattered all over the country … . are my diamonds. Watching them live happy, successful lives are the flowers in my life. The memories are the “sweets” that are as satisfying as chocolate!/JanTri, Brand X Ranch. More here.
Question: How much do you measure your success in life by the way your kids turned out?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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JeanieSpokane on May 06 at 12:35 p.m.
>Question: How much do you measure your success in life by the way your kids turned out?<
I am the sum of my children; it is because of them that I am who I am today. They make me. They are the air I breathe. They are my life. Every day is Mother’s Day. Every single day! I am so totally blessed.
Frum Helen Back on May 06 at 3:10 p.m.
I don’t want to think about it.