Ode to Grandma Jane
Jun 30th, 2008 by susan
So since I wrote such a lovely (hopefully) post on my in-laws, I didn’t want to leave my own mother out, just because she happened to visit before I started blogging!
I certainly won the “Mother” lottery, too. I have the absolute most amazing mom in the world. My mom raised me on her own since I was 3 (my dad died early of lung cancer although he never smoked), owning her own business and paying for my college education, too! It is only now that my husband and I are struggling with raising two young children together, paying the bills, and trying to save that I can even begin to understand the sacrifices she made for me (I never lacked for anything) and her unbelievable patience and love.
My mom, Grandma Jane, came to visit right after our youngest daughter Malia was born this year. Malia was 4 weeks early, but my mom dropped her entire life on a dime and came out early to help. (Mind you she still owns and runs a successful computer business and has lots of friends and family and her own life to live in Michigan!) For six full weeks she put up with my raging hormones, the crazy initial adjustment of growing from a family of 3 to a family of 4 (it is never easy on the eldest child to welcome a new sibling into the fold), cooked for us, cleaned for us, shopped for us, took my oldest daughter to the playground so that I could rest, and sooo much more.
I can only hope to be the kind of mother that she has always been to me, patient, loving, kind, inspiring, faithful, generous, selfless, strong, and a wonderful family relationship builder. I have a LONG ways to go, but that is my hope!
God Bless you, Mom, always.
