Life sentence...

It is so easy to take my mother for granted.  She is always there, quietly supporting me, no matter what the circumstances. Even as she has gotten older and less physically strong, she continues to listen and inspire with her wealth of life experience and her calm assurance that all will eventually be well.  I could not imagine anyone better suited to be my mother than the one I have.

It was not an easy path for her to become my mother.  Most women have a nine month pregnancy, and viola, they are a mother.  But my mother took a much harder journey, one which built strength and character, along with the blows life dealt her.  Because she lost three babies along the way, and I came as the rainbow after the storms.