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| "Yet here's a kiss for my mother dear." From "The Golden Staircase" illustrated by M. Dibden Spooner, 1906 |
“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
As a child, Mother’s Day sometimes meant a
double celebration in my family because every seven years it would fall on my
mother’s birthday, May 10. This made it an extra special day! Patricia was a woman filled
with contradictions, one day a bundle of insecurities, the next sharing her hard won
wisdom. She carried with her the "lilt of Irish laughter" but also the fiery temper that went with her brilliant red hair.
Born during the Great Depression, raised in a family of twelve children, I never fully appreciated her journey of resilience and strength until I was grown with a family of my own. Whenever she came to visit she would lightly tap on the door, fling it open and cheerfully shout, “Hello to the house!” She has been gone for 16 years and I miss her every day, but her voice continues to echo through my life and heart.
Born during the Great Depression, raised in a family of twelve children, I never fully appreciated her journey of resilience and strength until I was grown with a family of my own. Whenever she came to visit she would lightly tap on the door, fling it open and cheerfully shout, “Hello to the house!” She has been gone for 16 years and I miss her every day, but her voice continues to echo through my life and heart.
Happy Mother’s Day to every woman
who has opened their hearts to the children in their lives.
STORIES
The Aged Mother – Germany
The Bad Mother – Romania
The Disobedient Frog – Korea
The Dragon Prince and the Step-Mother –
Turkey
How the Kangaroo Got Its Pouch -
Australia
Native American Mother Stories
The Magic Brocade – China
Mother Holle - Germany
Mother’s Darling Jack – Romania
The Mother’s Child – European Folktales
http://tinyurl.com/gocs9w4
The Poor Sick Mother – France
The Story of the Aged Mother – Japan
The Story of a Mother – Hans Christian
Andersen
Better Homes and Gardens – Twenty cute and clever crafts.
BOOKS
Collections of mother and daughter tales:
- Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters by Kathleen Ragan
- Fiesta Femenina: Celebrating Woman in Mexican Folktales by Mary-Joan Gersen
- Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folktales for Mothers and Daughters to Share edited by Jane Yolen
- Mother and Daughter Tales by Josephine Evetts-Secker
CRAFTS
Better Homes and Gardens – Twenty cute and clever crafts.
DaniellesPlace.com – Flowers, frames,
bookmarks and more will keep the little one’s busy making a cute craft for
their Mom.
Karen Chace 2013 ©
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