QotD: Happy Mother's Day

What's the best thing about your mom?

My mother had patience and elegance.  She could do anything with nothing, she was amazing!  She passed on when I was 7, and I can remember to this day the parties and decorations she would have for our home.  She would spend weeks baking cookies for christmas, not a batch or two, but dozens of dozens of the most elaborate cookies.  The dinners with china from her home in England, silver she had family in England send.  Linens and wineglasses, the works!  She could do laundry, polish silver, arrange flowers and be ready for a crowd and think nothing of it.  I can remember sitting at the top of the staircase, watching guests arrive, and her just being so elegant.  She threw her very being into being the best mother and wife a woman could be.  Her private letters home to her parents and sister tell the story, and now after she has been gone 40yrs and I'm now a mom, I appreciate her letters all the more.  She was homesick and worried about them, and yet her love and dedication to us was all encompassing.  She was amazing, she was my mother.