http://ankhesena.vox.com/library/posts/tags/mother's+day/page/1/ en Vox Sun, 11 May 2008 20:48:41 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mother's day http://ankhesena.vox.com/library/post/qotd-happy-mothers-day.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Ankhesena) http://ankhesena.vox.com/library/post/qotd-happy-mothers-day.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://ankhesena.vox.com/library/post/qotd-happy-mothers-day.html?_c=feed-rss-full Sun, 11 May 2008 20:48:41 -0700 <blockquote> <p>What&#39;s the best thing about your mom? </p></blockquote><p> My mother had patience and elegance.&#160; She could do anything with nothing, she was amazing!&#160; She passed on when I was 7, and I can remember to this day the parties and decorations she would have for our home.&#160; She would spend weeks baking cookies for christmas, not a batch or two, but dozens of dozens of the most elaborate cookies.&#160; The dinners with china from her home in England, silver she had family in England send.&#160; Linens and wineglasses, the works!&#160; She could do laundry, polish silver, arrange flowers and be ready for a crowd and think nothing of it.&#160; I can remember sitting at the top of the staircase, watching guests arrive, and her just being so elegant.&#160; She threw her very being into being the best mother and wife a woman could be.&#160; Her private letters home to her parents and sister tell the story, and now after she has been gone 40yrs and I&#39;m now a mom, I appreciate her letters all the more.&#160; She was homesick and worried about them, and yet her love and dedication to us was all encompassing.&#160; She was amazing, she was my mother.</p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ankhesena.vox.com/library/post/qotd-happy-mothers-day.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e8d928000500f48d15e5780001?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> qotd mother's day best mom