A Correction from Mom

In the comments to the last post. And as anyone whose met her knows, it's best not to argue.  Her response is below:

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Time for me to pipe in. Tony you're under the mistaken impression that my dream in life was to write. I did love to write. And write I did It was calming and peaceful and sometimes exciting. Somewhere there are probably notebooks of poems and short stories I wrote , but God only knows where.

And I loved story telling and fantasy , you kids suffered the brunt of that.

My only real dream was to be a wife and mother and raise great kids. It was what I always wanted. That probably sounds lame in this day and age, But I'm from a different generation. I wanted to be a stay at home mom, not very practicle because financially a 2 income family made much more sense. But every time I tried to work away from home I couldn't stand the thought of missing one of you kids taking your 1st step or saying you're 1st word or using the potty chair for the 1st time or get stung by a bee. Selfish I know but I couldn't give those spectacular events up to a babysitter.

Making up stories or poems never had to go to the wayside for me, I told you guys stories all the time, and there were always potty time songs and dittys to make up to keep you sitting there, of supper time stories and songs to keep you waiting till the food was done,car riding stories and bed time stories, stories to stop the fights, and stories to dry the tears and anger and storeis just because I loved to hear you laugh.

As you each grew up and left home you took a part of me with you, it was hard but now as I watch you all as adults I know it was worth the time and effort, my mistakes and anguish sometimes because each of you became individually amazing adults. It was hard sometimes to hold back and let you each become you're own person, but I'm so glad I found a way to do that.

My dream now is that you be happy, learn to see the hard times and mistakes you make as learning experiences, break them down if you need to and decide how important they really are in affecting the rest of your life and then let them go or let them become a part of your own future stories and ditties. All our lives are full of comedy, drama, action, and adventure.

Being there, watching my kids grow, learn new things, experience life and now watching them and my grand children continue to life life has and still is fulfilling the only dream I ever really had. You guys gave me more than enough pleasure to contermine anything that could have possibly been missing in my life through someone elses eye's.

Maybe ,They'll find the cure for cancer using me as a guinea pig or maybe I'll just end up being one of the lucky ones or maybe not. But regardless my dream's have been fullfilled and still are by , not through my kids .Your happiness and seeing you living your lives to the fullest you can make me happy.

Now I'm going to go sprinkle a l'l hot sauce on my scrambled and slightly scorched brains and put them away in dreamland for awhile. It's exhausting being brilliant all the time not to mention the radiation is starting to make me glow and glare off my bald head hurts my eyes Þ

Love you
Mom