Mother’s Day Wild Card — 5.8.10

My wife and I took my mother to a wedding Saturday afternoon of a girl who grew up in our church, the daughter of a close friend. Mom’s still healthy although a bit slower as she approaches birthday No. 85 in June. She’s lived in the Northwest for decades after raising us 6 kids in a small town in northern California in the 1940s through the 1970s. We lost Dad in a vehicle accident in 1976. She never remarried, telling us often that she couldn’t find another man who measured up. We’ll take us to church this morning, as we usually do, and share a steak dinner with her and my mother-in-law, who also lives in Coeur d’Alene. The kids are miles away. But it’s nice to have our mothers near. How about you? Are you mothers still living? Nearby? Do you plan to spend the day with them? You can answer any of those questions or start your own threads with this Wild Card …