Happy Mother's Day 2011

 John, Nancy, Sarah, Mom, Bill and Susan

A great mom and always there for her children and grandchildren.

WE LOVE YOU, MOM

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Two Mothers

(anonymous)

I had two mothers...

Two mothers I claim

Two different people

Yet with the same name.

Two separate women

Diverse by design

But I loved them both

Because they were both mine.

The first was the mother

Who carried me here

Gave birth and nurtured

And launched my career.

She was the one

Whose features I bear

Complete with the facial

Expression I wear.

She gave me some music

Which follows me yet

Along with examples

In life that she set.

Then as I got older

She some younger grew

And we'd laugh as just mothers

And daughters do.

But then came the year

that her mind clouded so

And I sensed that the mother

I'd known would soon go.

So quickly she changed

And turned into the other

A stranger who dressed

In the clothes of my mother.

Oh, she looked the same

At least at arm's length

But she was the child now

And I was her strength.

We'd come full circle

We women three

My mother the first

The second and me.

And if my own children

Should come to a day

When a new mother comes

And the old goes away.

I'd ask of them nothing

that I didn't do.

Love both of your mothers

As both have loved you.