OK, I know it’s JANUARY, but I just realized this was still in Draft form. From May! So, here’s the thing… I love my Mother so very much, and think that TODAY should be Mother’s Day. So I added a more recent photo and I’m posting it today! It’s my blog, and I can do that 
Cool Mom quotes: These people said it better than I can…
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. ~Author Unknown
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren
A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Author Unknown
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill. ~John Erskine
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~John Wilmot
You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back. ~William D. Tammeus
Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too. ~Lionel Kauffman Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
Here’s what I can say. I love you, Mom, with all of my heart and am so proud to be your daughter.
