In honor of Mother's Day...

Cleaning when I'm stressed. She used to say, "We might be poor, but we don't have to be dirty."

 Also cooking. There were many struggle meals, but she always had something for us to eat.

When my kids ask me to make them a sandwich I yell "POOF YOU'RE A SANDWICH".

My mom loves to garden and worked at a botanic garden - I'm similar. She was always a walker and a runner - I'm similar. She loved the fog - I'm similar. She also loves to cook and we always had amazing meals growing up, with at least 2 vegetables and she was aware of how the colors of the plate went together I'm not as good as she is, but I do try She also sewed a lot of our clothes growing up, and knit amazing countless fair isle sweaters, I've only knit a few scarves and beanies but I'm trying!

Absolutely nothing.

I love both my children

The only person I will tell anything to is my husband.

I don’t worship my brother.

I actually like to do things because I like doing them not because I am forced to.

My mom grew up super poor (like, dirt floor poor), and my grandma always said that. They had the nicest, cleanest house they could, and the kids always looked impeccable.

My mom was a lot of things but totally awesome. She just did not have it in her to be a good mother. She loved us and did the best she could by us, but the hugs and cuddle times just were not there. She had a lot going on and was raising four kids by herself with no family support.

But she was an awwesomem women. There was nothing she could not do and she taught us that what ever we wanted to do we could do it whether was build a set of shelves, sew a prom dress, learn to dance in a Filipino folk dance troup, or fry up chicken for 100 people. All of these things I did while in my teens.

I owe her a lot. She taught us to be honest and respnsible. To this day I cannot tell a lie, even a compliment it if is not deserved. She taught us to work hard and do it right the first time - if it is worth doing, it is worth doing right. Yep, that is me. We learned how to make do and not to whine. We learned not to expect people to do for us. But, we also learned how to accept help graciously and how to tell when it was needed and how to ask for it. We learned how to give and give and give of ourselves until nowdays I enjoy giving gifts more than getting them.

I miss my Mother and have dreams where she is still alive often.

I got my mom's big hands and feet, LOL. I look like her, too.

My personality is more like my dad's.

She's an awesome mom

While I'm more like my dad, I have my Mother's ability to visualize things and her visual memory. Our skills are in different areas but we are both have a great design sense. We can see what we want to create.

Oh and we both talk to ourselves. I don't know about her but it is those sometimes outloud conversations with myself where I get my best ideas.

Good for you!!!

Oh how I miss my mom.
She taught me to always be kind and to treat people how I would want to be treated. My mom was a great cook and at her funeral I was touched by all the people who came up to me to talk about her food.
She was always there for me, my sister, my brother and our friends. She was our room Mom at school, our Brownie and Girl Scout leader, my brother's team mom in baseball, she actually won an award from the school for being the best Mom.
And the best Nana to her 3 granddaughters and Nanny to her 4 great grandchildren!