Mother's Day is Coming! Let's Laugh!!!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I don't know about all of you, but I am ready for a lighthearted discussion.  Mother's Day is coming up on Sunday and I would like to hear a funny story or stories about your mother. I have to be careful here because my DD's are on DK, but luckily my mother is not :) My mother will be 85 this May and she has a great sense of humor. She laughs at all my jokes, even when they are about her. I guess growing up she always used to say if someone teases you, they like you, so going by that theory I love her and my family loves me.

My mom is not a big animal person and does not understand why people want pets. She does, however, love Fudge and Vern. Once when my kids were little, I called and told her we were getting a cat. Right away she said if we got a cat then she wasn't coming to stay at our house ever again and when I told that to my DH, we started laughing and yelled to the kids to get dressed, and to please hurry because we were on our way to get a cat that day. She was still on the phone and that cracked her up.

A couple of years ago, she announced to us that she was coming out to our house for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.  According to her, her financial guy said she can afford to come for both holidays.  We told her we thought she should be thinking about getting a new financial guy and that sent her into waves of laughter.

When President Obama was newly elected, she could not stop talking about his possible Health Care plan. My mom still has all her marbles and can get pretty wound up about a subject and kept going on and on about his plan and said it could mean euthanasia for the elderly.   The last time she brought it up, one of us asked her if she knew how to get someone on the list and did it help if more than one family member submitted a name and then we all laughed.

She is beyond competitive and at 85, is in a Wii bowling league and plays every week. If you beat her, you have to keep playing until she beats you. I got her a Mother's Day card this year that says something like They say the Nut doesn't fall to far from the tree and then you open it and it says that scares the hell out of me. Truer words were never spoken. Both my mom and I like to laugh and I see my future before my eyes when I look at her. I think laughter is a pretty great thing to pass on to your children. So, Happy Mother's Day to my funny mom and I would love to hear some funny stories about what makes your mom special.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Nicky, Your mom is beautiful and I liked her already from your Sunday Musings, but now I really like her!! She moved a bus stop....who says one person can't change the world.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Nicky, I forgot to say I think you look like your mom! What a lovely picture!

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

Nicky, your mom sounds like she was a force to be reckoned with!! And she is beautiful! I think she looks like royalty!!

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Nicky I am so sorry your mom isn't here any longer, but it sounds like you have wonderful memories of her and that she was chock full of personality.

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

So sorry to hear about your mom but you have wonderful memories, love the bus stop story-wow!!

I learned something from your mom today...always look busy when the husband comes home! If he walks in and I'm on the computer...especially DK he cops the attitude like I've been on here all day! YEAH RIGHT(very right!!)

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

Laurie!!! I got that card for my mom for Mother's DAY!!!!  Love it!  Your mother sounds awesome by the way!

My mom is young - a year shy of 60.  She is hilarious.  Quite the life of the party. One of her traits that just about sums her up is her dancing ability (or, errr, love of dancing, maybe not talent)!  In college, she and her friends started "gatoring". They discovered this after their trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras - saw some girls from LSU doing it.  I wish I could photograph/video her doing this for you. She will still get a wild hair after some wine and just boogy down, arms slinging and crouching low to the floor.  This infectious love for life has gotten her through some terrible times. 

My parents have a relationship that I can only hope for.  After 36 years of marriage, she has coped with him being an alcoholic, becoming sober and remaining so for 20 years (yay dad), the family business (dad's) going under, dad's 1-22-02 wreck when he should have died (had hangman's break of the neck), living with dad's brain injury and changed personality ever since, dad's various bouts with cancer, dealing with an out-of-control teenage daughter (sister, not me), losing her best friend to ALS this year, finding out her sister has MS this year, another best friend (and my dad's childhood best friend) taking a turn for the worst in a 7-year battle with breast cancer, the list goes on (as yours do as well, that's life I am figuring out). 

Through it all, she is a force to be reckoned with.  I remember in January 2002 when I was called to come home from college to "say goodbye to dad" (remember, he lived!).  The first night, my aunt and sis stayed at the hospital (he was there for 2 months total).  Mom took me home and we proceeded to polish off some of Napa's finest.  I cried and told her dad and her were perfect and that if I could ever find a relationship like theirs, I would be so lucky.  The words she said to me, as her husband was "dying" were (picture her smiling and laughing a little) "honey, no one is perfect. Life is not perfect.  Look at where we are now.  I work daily on my relationship with your father and if he lives through this, it will not be a walk in the park. Remember that life is hard, but don't let ANYONE tell you that you cannot make your own hapiness in the face of despair."  I swear her attitude saved my dad, brought him out of the coma, etc....later that week we had a dancing party. With all of that going on!!!!!!

That's my mama!

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

Just realizing mine's not very funny.  But picture wine and hilarious dancing - because this is a frequent activity on a family Sunday at home!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Allyson, Any mom story is great. I amend my discussion to say Tell any special story about your mom!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Allyson, Well, you made me cry. What a beautiful story about your mom and dad. Tell her to keep on dancing :)

[Nicky, Riley & Boris]

Wow, what a mama you have and what a great attitude to life she has.  Now if we could only bottle that ?

[Carol and Banjo]

We should all learn to dance like your Mom Allyson.  Wonderful, wonderful woman.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Allyson what a role model your mother is. She is a model of, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!"