janeinbama
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,174
Location: Alabama
Jan 29, 2015 16:24:49 GMT
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Post by janeinbama on Sept 28, 2017 19:48:53 GMT
I did and sadly they are both gone. My Dad was an only child and my mom's siblings lived hundreds of miles away. You can just never have too many people to love you. Our DDs also have some special "aunts" in their lives. I like to think there are some women (girls) who feel the same about me.
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Post by MadamG2U on Sept 28, 2017 20:05:42 GMT
I am truly blessed. I have a number of moms and aunts. I have childhood friends and we seem to share our parents and extended family. My dad always jokes I have one daughter then the next thing I knew I had 5 more. My mom says and he did it without me!
MadamG2U
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Post by lbp on Sept 28, 2017 20:14:33 GMT
Yes! And I thank my mom for letting them spend an inordinate amount of time with me before she died. My mother died when she was 37. I was 16 and my sister was 11 and my paternal Grandmother and my maternal Great Aunt swooped right in to help us mentally, physically, with housework, schoolwork, etc.. Whenever there was mother/daughter things at church or school I took both of them! My Dad was there too but it was nice to have them there to help us through things we might be uncomfortable asking our Dad.
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Post by vspindler on Sept 28, 2017 20:16:26 GMT
I don’t know that I do too much. But I have a cool mom who is still around and several cool aunts. My mom was the “other mom” for a number of kids though. In fact, where she worked once the busboys/girls would come in “hi mom, hey mom, hi S, hi mom” and the one who called her first name (S) would be her own kid. We had a couple “strays” that kind of lived with us, at least part time: a boy who was a friend of my brother’s and a girl whose mom was a nurse and often worked nights.
I guess I do kind of have an extra mom and Dad now that I think of it, in the context of my re-enactment group. They are the heads of the household I am a part of, and I am apprenticed to the one.
I do have a awful lot of honorary relatives though.
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Post by meriannj on Sept 28, 2017 22:10:28 GMT
Yes. My first second mom will forever be a mom to me. Walking in her house is so comforting. She and her deceased husband treated me like one of their own. If their son were a daughter, they would have taken me on vacation with them. LOL! My second second mom I call mamma. Again, she took me in as one of her own. She made an effort to understand what was going on with my food issues. She Gave me a safe space to try new foods. My third second mom is my MIL. She is my mom. She is my best friend. She & Dad have given me a family. I do not have a relationship with my actual mother. She could never accept the adult me who made decisions that weren’t from her. Except for the food issues, I could have written this word for word. Along with those I have a tribe if "extra" moms who are mothers of my dear HS friends, my BFF's mom, and a co-worker/oncology nurse who mothered me while I was getting chemo since my own birth person couldn't even be bothered to call once during my year of treatments.
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