Often times we take so much for granted, especially the one parent who rare/ raised you/ us. in most cases its the mother- allow me therefore to pause here and congratulate those men who have done an extremely great job as the same mothers. But what we dont appreciate is the value these parents really have. The passing of my dad has clearly shown me the role my mother played in my life. of course i always respected her, thanked her, go beyond my reach to be there for her but i still never imagine the gravity of my mothers role. Single handed, she raised 6 children ages 1 to10 .to beautiful and handsome young women and men respectfully. All are alive; all very well educated; all married to great spouses; all employed either with good paid jobs or with their own businesses. Modern day parents usually want to give up when they get no help and sometimes its just 2 or 3 children they have to look out for but my mother did all that she could do to cover us. To this day i am applaud at how she got all this done with a few cents after working very hard. She worked in the plantation- cutting cane; loading canes; picking pond grass; weeding the plantation ground; doing maid work; keeping shop; she raised sheep, goats, pigs, chickens(yard fouls), throw meetings, and we never went hungry once, never went naked and was never without shelter though had to pay rent. My mother sent us to Sunday school, sent us to church morning and evening and then in the week. she made sure we looked good and dressed the same. The boys (2) wore the same colour suits and girls (4) the same colour and made. She would stopped home and cook, clean, washed and ironed the clothes- uniforms. We did not have much clothes but were always very cleaned and well mannered. All of learnt to wash and pressed our clothes from an early age because we had to come home wash those clothes hope they dried by the morning. Then she had to leave us to get ready and go to school because she went to work for 7 and took the 5 oclock bus. This caused us to become rather responsible from an early age. Of course we all grew to be men and women with families and because of our up bring in the church we knew how to pray and we would always pray for mummy. Today she is a devout christian, she became a reverend in my church but later went to another church where she is serving very well. I can remember clearly when it was time for the Sumner vacation, she would buy for sure a large tin of biscuits, one gallon of mauby if not the bart, an eighth bag of sugar (because when there is no more mauby then we would have drank sweet water) along with flour because bakes were the order of the day- salt bakes, sweet bakes, muffins, you name it we made them. To date, every Saturday my commitment to my family is that I make bakes for them every Saturday morning. This is countless years now and we still look forward to those bakes. So why do i say we take that one parent for granted? I am glad you ask. allow me to explain. Think about this. That parent has to sweep, clean, wash ,pressed and fold other clothes to put away; help children do home work; go to class level meetings; go to PTA meetings; help them with home work and projects for school; this has nothing to do with projects for lessons; brownies; take them to the library; dancing/ swimming. Still have to go to Church; find time to spend with them to talk and still work, and this is not all, yet we dont see all this. There are some children who would tell their Parents I NEVER ASKED YOU TO BRING ME INTO THIS WORLD. THEN THE ONLY TIME WE CAN FIND TO HONOUR THEM IS MOTHERS DAY OR A BIRTHDAY. obviously if the parent is not very well educated then they have to forget about themselves to help the children which is another sacrifice. Mummy i know I have always say and show you how much I appreciate you and love you but in this season i have grown to respect you more for what you did for me. On the contrary to what other children believe, I am glad you took good care of me and brought me into this world..Thank you mummy. Guess what at 75 years she still leaves home every morning at 5 am taking a bus from St James to go to work in Christ Church at one of her daughters Day Care. She Just love children and to work. Do you know the countless times we say to her mummy you dont need to work now we take care of you... She just love to work and we let her do it. This is % years now every year is her last.lol My suggestion is that we have a day in our family as Parents appreciation day and do it as often as you wish. I am going to do mine once every month. And those that are influential in that persons live next door encourage them to appreciate their parents. — with Jamal A Cummins and Antoine Cummins.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 03:44:58 +0000
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