What a wonderful Mother's Day!

To enjoy the day, I'd like to share some timeless humor and wisdom from Erma Bombeck, American humorist, and newspaper columnist for three decades.

--All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with white carpet is one of them.


--Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.


--Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?"


--Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

--Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-rearing, they are unemployed.

--Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on."


--Kids have little computer bodies with disks that store information. They remember who had to do the dishes the last time you had spaghetti, who lost the knob off the Tv set six years ago, who got punished for teasing the dog when he wasn't teasing the dog and who had to wear girls boots the last time it snowed.


--Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.


--No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there's a wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.


--When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.


--Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.


--I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years."


--It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.


--One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.


--Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.


--Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.


--Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids.


--A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.


--When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."


And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands."


--He who laughs...lasts.


--When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".

"He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young." Isaiah 40:11 (emphasis mine)

"Her children arise and call her blessed;
    her husband also, and he praises her:"  Proverbs 31:28

I once heard that the meaning of blessing was: to truly see someone.

When we bless others, we see them, and we honor them for who they are, for what they have endured, for their service, or their sacrifice.

I am Blessed.

I am blessed to be a mom and to have a mom. I am blessed that God gently leads me. I am blessed that God sees me.

Mothers, stepmothers, grandmothers, aunts, god-mothers, best friends, and caregivers:  Enjoy this Mother's Day!

You are seen.  You are blessed .

Beyond compare~