I am my Mother's daughter. I hug tightly, I kiss lovingly, I show love and I genuinely care. I am not afraid to show my love to people I care about and I am an open book of emotions: what's on my face, is in my heart.
Like her, I don't keep grudges, and I bring a small something when I come to visit your home. She loves a work well done, hates to leave something for tomorrow if it could be done today and she is the ultimate NON-procrastinator (that, we don't really have in common). She has cookies to offer guests everytime they visit and will ask how everyone in your family is doing. I sometimes call her the "Duracell bunny" as she always has something to accomplish, a project to finish, a meal to make.
My Mom is an elementary school teacher. In Romania, an elementary school teacher will take a class of kids from the first grade all the way through fourth grade, teaching them all the basic subjects, like Math, Reading, Geography, Social Sciences. So, the teachers really get to know their kids very well. I've seen my Mom mold ten generations of kids since she started her career, that's roughly around 300 kids... She's not just my Mom, but a second Mom to many others... That, will testify her true love for kids, for education, for meaningful teaching, and for ground rules that would last a lifetime. I've shared my Mom with all these kiddos and I watched some of them grow through the years, while always making time to send her a postcard from their trips or during holidays or calling her after many years of not seeing her. I always felt that all the cards she would collect over Christmas showed how much her kids appreciated her and loved her. She still has older former students call her just to catch up. I think that's fantastic!
Like in her classroom where she'd form a tight family bond with her kids and their parents, at home, she is the most caring Mom one could ask for. I think she'd still cook for us and would be completely ok if my brother and I would move back home.
OMG, don't ask...
Both my Mom and Dad provided us with everything we ever wanted during our childhood: we never lacked the coolest toys during a strict Communist regime, we always had food on the table even if it meant one of them sitting in a huge line to get a restricted amount of sugar, oil or flour... We never felt the strain the regime had on our family or in society. We were given a strong family sense and we grew up sheltered by love, protection, and family ties. Ties that are still standing strong today and that helped immensely in my search for a lifetime partner. I am so grateful that my parents made Adrian a part of my family, welcoming him into our family!
This year, it's a coincidence that Mother's Day falls a day before my Birthday. I feel blessed to have a Mom like I do, and wish everyone had such loving parents like my brother and I do. I wish her and both of them a lifetime of health and best wishes. Happy Mother's Day Mom, thank you for bringing me singing into the world 31 years ago and thank you, Dad, for looking just like me the day I was born so the nurse could easily recognize my Daddy... Hahahaha...
I hope and pray we celebrate my 32nd Birthday together!!!
Like her, I don't keep grudges, and I bring a small something when I come to visit your home. She loves a work well done, hates to leave something for tomorrow if it could be done today and she is the ultimate NON-procrastinator (that, we don't really have in common). She has cookies to offer guests everytime they visit and will ask how everyone in your family is doing. I sometimes call her the "Duracell bunny" as she always has something to accomplish, a project to finish, a meal to make.
My Mom is an elementary school teacher. In Romania, an elementary school teacher will take a class of kids from the first grade all the way through fourth grade, teaching them all the basic subjects, like Math, Reading, Geography, Social Sciences. So, the teachers really get to know their kids very well. I've seen my Mom mold ten generations of kids since she started her career, that's roughly around 300 kids... She's not just my Mom, but a second Mom to many others... That, will testify her true love for kids, for education, for meaningful teaching, and for ground rules that would last a lifetime. I've shared my Mom with all these kiddos and I watched some of them grow through the years, while always making time to send her a postcard from their trips or during holidays or calling her after many years of not seeing her. I always felt that all the cards she would collect over Christmas showed how much her kids appreciated her and loved her. She still has older former students call her just to catch up. I think that's fantastic!
Like in her classroom where she'd form a tight family bond with her kids and their parents, at home, she is the most caring Mom one could ask for. I think she'd still cook for us and would be completely ok if my brother and I would move back home.
OMG, don't ask...
Both my Mom and Dad provided us with everything we ever wanted during our childhood: we never lacked the coolest toys during a strict Communist regime, we always had food on the table even if it meant one of them sitting in a huge line to get a restricted amount of sugar, oil or flour... We never felt the strain the regime had on our family or in society. We were given a strong family sense and we grew up sheltered by love, protection, and family ties. Ties that are still standing strong today and that helped immensely in my search for a lifetime partner. I am so grateful that my parents made Adrian a part of my family, welcoming him into our family!
This year, it's a coincidence that Mother's Day falls a day before my Birthday. I feel blessed to have a Mom like I do, and wish everyone had such loving parents like my brother and I do. I wish her and both of them a lifetime of health and best wishes. Happy Mother's Day Mom, thank you for bringing me singing into the world 31 years ago and thank you, Dad, for looking just like me the day I was born so the nurse could easily recognize my Daddy... Hahahaha...
I hope and pray we celebrate my 32nd Birthday together!!!
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