Happy Mothers Day! Thinking of and wishing all of my Facebook friends and family a wonderful Mothers Day today! Congratulations to those celebrating their first Mothers Day today including Lisa Olsem Clark, Erin Kellogg Watson and Elise Poplawski! My thoughts and prayers are especially with those who are missing their mothers on this day, Lois Goulet Federau and so many others, as well as those mothers who are celebrating this day without being able to share it with their children who left this world much too early, Christine Shea Christensen, Eric Lederman, Jenny Tickel, and Jeannie Paschali Walsh among others. To my own mother, Roberta Brown, who has always been and continues to be there for me in so many ways, whos energy never ceases to amaze me and who I love and appreciate more than she will ever, ever know, to my wonderful aunts, Betty Brown and all of the rest, who I love and respect and am so grateful for having your influence in my life and who have always loved me like I was their own, to my sisters-in-law, Amy Mitchell Brown, who are raising my niece and nephews and who love my kids like their own (sometimes even more than I do), and to my first friends, my cousins, Norma Brown Ryan, Marilyn Brix, Diane Brown Lehn, Denise Brown Hagele, Beverly Brown Bollhorst, Cindy Brown Jizmagian, Linda Brown Price, Barb Thiele, Patricia Dunaway and the others who have always been my foundation and are still my rock! To the women of Zion Chapel, Sally Brown, Beth Wooters Calvert, Arlene Lichtenberger, Rea Boggs Virt, Diana Ritter, Teresa Phillips, Sally Hamon and so many others for providing me with wonderful examples of what it truly means to be a nurturing and caring mother, to my Boody Grade School friends, Diana Lynn Poor, Mindy McKay, Sally Pocklington, Rita Chapman-Hagenbruch, to my classmates from the BMHS Class of 78, Renee Damery Bailey, Evelyn Weybright, Lori Gorden Lohrberg, Diane Clark Mueggler, to my Dallas and St. Andrew mom friends, Jane Denton Jones, Juli Mccready, Jennifer Arnold, Devra Williams Helffrich, Trudy Vernon and the others who became my family and who provided such great role models to me as I began my own journey to motherhood, to my Arkansas mom friends, among them, Susan Young Bradberry, Dana Renken Curtis, Misti Coker and Kim Johnson Selig who were there to help nurture me when William, Faith and Brice were born, to my neighborhood mom friends, Ann Cole Pisha, Shirley Pearson Milner, Shelly Markusic Penrod, Laura Reiser, Lori Janeri Watts, Sarah Watts Wisniewski, Kerry Briegel Wasielewski, Hope Catura and Beth Harris Boss, to my Bunco friends, Lynn Disparte-Waite, Pat John Graff, Vicki Martin Janusz, Mary Murphy, Audra Reavley, Kathy Koller, Katerri Walters and the rest of the group who I share one Thursday a month with, to FB friends whom I have never even met, Lisa Elfstrum and Debbie Loughlin, but still cherish your friendships, to my teacher friends, Jen Kern, Julie Kreitzer, Melody Nelson Watson, Lisa Olsem Clark, Kristin Anne and all of the others who so lovingly care for all of our children each and every day, to my East View, Kim Kiley Adorjan, Prairie Point, Beth Jackson Lewis, Carol Meagher Guist, Pam Erickson, Traughber, Christine Westphal Johnson, Leigh Hatch, Terri Orr and OHS mom friends, Patti Twohig Marcinko, Missy Cook Niedert, Susan Stangland, Mary Doerr, Maryanne Clark, Emily Olson-Wiencek, Wendy RomanoMonn, Kathleen Murphy Sharp, Donna Mason, Kim Goodall, to my soccer mom friends, Laurie Montgomery, Jennifer Fell, Jennifer Benson OReilly, Amy Peters Frazer, Tami Miller Engler, Elizabeth Ann Lawinger, Emily Bess Swanigan, Jean Avino Baumann, David Maureen Strange, Laura Stransky, Beverly Olson Totsch, Kim Keene Kingto my Hustle, Panther and OPB basketball moms, Carrie Henry Niesman, Rebecca Pawlowski Kidd, Gina Conley Hennessy, Mary Brown, Dawn Owens-Clayton, to my Panther football moms, Vikki Wiitanen-Frank, Cindy Johnson Marsh, Kim Williams Mac Donald, Lisa Hegseth, Rebecca Roark CavinsCavins, Julie Anna, To those of you have never given birth but love and care so much for the children of others, Robbie Twohig and Anne Deloria, and to my nurse mom and CDH friends, Susan Turnholt, Daphne Werner, Nancy Stell, Rita Cannella, Lynn Marie, Kira Lynne, Kate Karwowski Best, Jenn Cortez, Julie Kluempers McGuire, Laura Hedrick Wernke, Bonnie Whetzal Pajor, to my Club Chemo moms, Amy Donnelly, Carolyn Silva, Cassandra Scarbeck Forpanek , Kathy Hagedorn De Feo, Kim Kimberley Garrett-Pierzchalski, Nicole Curtis Clarke, Theresa Calgaro OGrady, Yvonne Selle, Shawna Garrett and all of the others. . .Each one of you mentioned and so many others who I failed to tag or who arent on FB, have influenced me and have helped mold me into the person and the mom I am today and I thank you. Never a day goes by that although you dont know it, I think of you and wonder what you would do in a particular situation. Each and every single day you encourage me, inspire me, enable me, motivate me, support me and love me and for that I am and will always be thankful. On this Mothers Day 2014, I am thankful for your friendship and truly blessed to have the gift of having each of you wonderful moms in my life. Today, forever and always. Happy Mothers Day my dear friends!
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 18:48:11 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015