from the May 6, 2010 issue of the County Journal...
A few different thoughts on motherhood...
It happens every day, but it’s no less important because of how often it happens. Every day, someone starts a life-long journey of being called Mom.
The first day, I’m told, is kind of rough. But the last time my wife became a mom, she had a big grin on her face for most of the procedure and told me (over and over again) that they gave her Demerol. It was nice to see her relaxed and calm. She even sang some Broadway show tunes to pass the time. “Anything Goes,” I think. The operation was pretty simple, at least from my perspective. El Doctor (we were in a foreign land) got our son out the escape hatch he created and sent him off to be cleaned and de-briefed. He and his sister are currently investigating how many different reasons they can think of to not go to bed on time. I think they are up to 10,765.
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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Besides the Mighty Quinn, few people have been immortalized in song as greatly as Mom.
According to a wide-array of songwriters, Mom sang tenor, tried to steer her boy right, stood by her man, said what “would be would be” and that “there’d be days like these,” just to name a few.
Mom got free advice on not letting her babies become cowboys and in her spare time, sewed a coat of many colors.
And although she was seen kissing Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, we have reason to believe it was a case of mistaken identity.
The fact that she didn’t dance was exacerbated by the problem that Daddy didn’t Rock and Roll.
All in all, Mom is the shoulder to cry on, has the wisdom of Solomon, and even though “one of them is a toddlin’ and one is a crawlin’ one needs a spankin’ and one needs a huggin’ and one’s on the way,” she still has the respect of us all. Maybe even more so because of all of that.
She even owns an accordion.
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The way I see it, being Mom is hard, but for the Moms in my life, not being Mom would be utterly impossible.
Happy Mother’s Day.
Darrell Teubner, Editor
