tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post1506417887541656258..comments2009-10-18T14:08:50.940-06:00c janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17480875440863002634noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-86935226305848483252009-10-18T14:08:51.623-06:002009-10-18T14:08:51.623-06:00I may have quoted this in my RS lesson today. Just may have.Ruth Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07174414593104191478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-56986339478093884502009-10-15T08:01:18.504-06:002009-10-15T08:01:18.504-06:00I love her! She&#39;s the kind of mom I want to be.<br />Fun is where it&#39;s at, baby!Wandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04301736341975637446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-17975251765064313492009-10-13T14:46:03.255-06:002009-10-13T14:46:03.255-06:00One of my favorite posts. I hope one day my daughter will have those types of sentiments for me.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01303061954118267562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-16699087136572188322009-10-13T07:56:57.251-06:002009-10-13T07:56:57.251-06:00I like this and I understand. My mother is also not what I would call sweet, but she&#39;s amazing and funny and my personal favorite.Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10258060786685150002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-58042556990235720512009-10-12T19:00:18.497-06:002009-10-12T19:00:18.497-06:00That is so sweet and beautiful! I adore my mom too!Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465934365123564513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-78451585884089934232009-10-12T15:28:50.395-06:002009-10-12T15:28:50.395-06:00&quot;She is so good to me. She never gives up on me. She always hopes for the better part of me.&quot;<br /><br />man, i so needed to read this post this week. having a mother that is like a mother/best friend/etc, sometimes it keeps me in a childlike moodiness at times, and she is so patient, and somehow that makes me feel inadequate and not the best daughter in the world....i sometimes leave feeling like i should be better. anyway, this post and what you thought while you waited in the car, just struck a chord. anyway, thanks. :)you silly goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11082808259867258178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-24666280524908101742009-10-12T05:46:10.119-06:002009-10-12T05:46:10.119-06:00See, that is so fundamental. I clicked on your link to read about your mother&#39;s secret and smiled to myself. The hardest thing is actually to do exactly what she did. So often you come upon the &quot;self-sacrificing&quot; saintly mother type and people think, &quot;wow, that&#39;s such a difficult way to live&quot;. I think it&#39;s much more difficult to retain yourself within the circle of mother-children-wife-husband and come out the other end blemish-free. Kudos to the person who can be that mother and wife while retaining qualities belonging solely to herself. She will be the mother whose children can proudly acclaim, &quot;I know who my mom really is a person&quot;.musicianmommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980745356760247530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-19818215998520446692009-10-11T21:27:03.307-06:002009-10-11T21:27:03.307-06:00humm okay... soo.. I don&#39;t have T.V. (I know, I know - what is wrong with me?) and I missed the whole Oprah thing!!!! ARG! Do you know where I can go to on line to watch it? I hear it was GREAT! <br /><br />Thanks!<br />cat ~cat designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08406468142579997051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-51336256282078946762009-10-11T20:42:16.875-06:002009-10-11T20:42:16.875-06:00Okay, in this post your really nailed. You could have been discribing my mother, who by the way, would never want to be described as sweet.michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01222973139176415369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-39970591013493104072009-10-11T17:59:15.210-06:002009-10-11T17:59:15.210-06:00Nothing is better than a post about mothers/motherhood. Thank you for this. Enjoyed every word.Emzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12802735566381095035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-24061364184881151392009-10-11T17:15:02.497-06:002009-10-11T17:15:02.497-06:00Yes, but you&#39;ve all got *sweet* Utah voices, which surprised me, for sure. In the spirit kingdom, voices like yours will be soothing the weak and nurturing the lonely, while voices like mine will be bringing down mountains and raising brimstone. Sigh, alas...<br /><br />Do you say &#39;alwezs&#39;? I bet you do, you sweet but salty Cjane.rebekahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599286202033243810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-82896949930447504382009-10-11T15:13:13.860-06:002009-10-11T15:13:13.860-06:00My mother is kind. And today when I was perhaps at my snarkiest (or my worst, as she would agree) she spent the day ignoring my foul mood and acting as if I was enjoyable. (I was so not enjoyable.) My mother is smart. She long since learned to play off of my mood as if I was her best friend, which usually induces my change for better. In our relationship she is patient.<br /><br />---love that . . . i will tuck those words away in my heart. :)mamabear228http://mamabear228.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-61762973268915161732009-10-11T14:23:37.491-06:002009-10-11T14:23:37.491-06:00This post makes me very happy. I am more this kind of mother than the kind I see around me and I worry that I have no business raising children. However, I think you turned out pretty amazing - so I&#39;m feeling pretty good right now. Thanks.Gerbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13103247512887532095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-62986582063270639152009-10-10T21:05:58.241-06:002009-10-10T21:05:58.241-06:00My mom wasn&#39;t &quot;traditionally&quot; but she was always there for us no matter what. I think you are quite blessed to have the mom you, and I enjoyed this post very much. :)Sallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02865722713732049339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-45249370624729868692009-10-10T18:18:32.777-06:002009-10-10T18:18:32.777-06:00I love that your mom digs Freddy Mercury. Sweet, IMHO, is not an appropriate adjective for human beings. My spaniel is sweet, but the genius of Freddy Mercury is lost on her.6p00d834650a6e53efhttp://profile.typepad.com/6p00d834650a6e53efnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-25871332960535463722009-10-10T16:52:49.038-06:002009-10-10T16:52:49.038-06:00I love your blog and this post about your mother. I&#39;ve only been blogging for several months and was going to quit until I started reading your blog. I can tell through your writing how much you enjoy blogging and enjoy reading your experiences about life in general.H.K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10555156176113515138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-9621906445905664522009-10-10T16:04:02.842-06:002009-10-10T16:04:02.842-06:00I love this post. this is the kind of mother I want to be. I want to enjoy my children (well, child at this point). My mom rarely enjoyed me, and she only seems to enjoy me now when I can be the catalyst for her to get attention from her friends. (Such is the perk of having a daughter living in another country with a major birth injury.) I have moods like you described too. If only my mom would enjoy me despite them and bring me cookies dripping with icing (preferably chocolate), she would see her enjoyment factor increase exponentially.<br /><br />I wish your mom could somehow replicate herself so we could all have moms like her. You are blessed.Inklinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02775312085301951675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-91187409797890775742009-10-10T15:44:56.756-06:002009-10-10T15:44:56.756-06:00I love this part in The Art of Self-Centeredness in Motherhood<br />&quot;My mom didn’t sign us up for every lesson, team or passing whim. She didn’t want to spend her life drifting here and there in our suburban. When we expressed real interest in a particular past time she saw to it that we had the training we needed, but it was never obsessive.&quot;<br /><br />I am that way and it&#39;s always worried me, b/c so many mothers are, it sometimes second guess my thoughts on it. Hearing other (successful) mom&#39;s do the same validates it for me. :)I am LoWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143055801646733494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-30331565683884657872009-10-10T11:14:38.241-06:002009-10-10T11:14:38.241-06:00I don&#39;t know, but I would classify all that she does as pretty darn sweet!!!!! I would say she is pretty AWESOME!!!! YOu are so blessed!<br />tarapakostahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844321396555037225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-116581215563985282009-10-10T08:52:56.595-06:002009-10-10T08:52:56.595-06:00I had the extreme good fortune to sit by your mom at an opening night at Communal. (I am really not as cool as that sentence makes me sound.) She is one fun lady! I was so glad to have the chance to tell her in person how much I am inspired by her daughters - her family. Her response was precious and gracious. Her life&#39;s greatest work is something to be proud of. I hope my girls turn out half so well. I need some more lessons from your mom. Do you think she&#39;d meet me for dinner again sometime?amy smarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01247531873412471264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-79072973458395740692009-10-10T08:03:41.194-06:002009-10-10T08:03:41.194-06:00I&#39;ve always thought the SAME thing on SWEET. I would never describe myself as sweet, but dang it I&#39;m nice. :) For me it is the same thing between Katie and Kate...I&#39;m a Kate...not a Katie.katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04228419794512492809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-84305075246583644212009-10-10T05:59:20.968-06:002009-10-10T05:59:20.968-06:00Love this post! And your essay. Thank you!Gift of Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13843779880769352257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-8477600116114000812009-10-09T23:32:13.089-06:002009-10-09T23:32:13.089-06:00I&#39;m thinking that since she has so many children, nieces, grandchildren, etc. all around she won&#39;t notice if someone else wants to adopt her...? Cause really, she is stellar. And this from thousands of miles--I can&#39;t even imagine your luck. Good mothers really do change the world. I am trying my best to be one.<br /><br />Also: you have her eyes, I think. One of my daughters has mine and it kills me dead. In the best way.Annagracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021075458930062771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-89381449642752543842009-10-09T21:02:09.831-06:002009-10-09T21:02:09.831-06:00You know you just sent Muse a couple thousand new new fans right? The fact that you Mom likes them tells me a lot about her, not to mention all of the wonderful things that she does for you. <br /><br /> I pray I can be that &quot;sweet&quot; when my children are grown!Chachie32http://www.blogger.com/profile/05561853715410504043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12947560.post-34527287908583036642009-10-09T19:54:38.827-06:002009-10-09T19:54:38.827-06:00I so enjoyed reading that. Thank you. Best post ever.Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04953764061091454844noreply@blogger.com