So my mom had a birthday last week Thursday and turned 54! Between having to work that day and then coming home and working late into the night so our basement was ready for the carpet guys (who didn't even show UP by the way) I neglected posting a blog about her.
So now it just seems like a lame attempt. Oh well I decided to do it anyways...
I can't really think of my mom without thinking friend. We're different but we share the same values in life. I think my mom taught all of us how to be good, hardworking, honest, loyal and faithful.
She taught me to be strong. My dad was enlisted into compulsory army service when they had three small children at home. He was gone for a month or more at a time for a two years. To make matters extra difficult they had to survive on a meager South African army income. I often think about her strength of character when I'm having a hard day or feeling sorry for myself and think "I can do it my mom did."
She is smart. I really think she could have made one of the best CPA around. She is brilliant with math and taught extra math for many years. This brings me to another reason I admire her...she has such a good heart. Her and my dad really compliment one another this way. She would teach extra math to many children and sometimes for free or at a very low cost.
She loves the gospel and learning all she can about it. She spends hours each week studying the scriptures and manuals for her weekly institute class which she loves. She loves going so much that we tease her for having a crush on the institute teacher. The truth is she loves learning. She has been a gospel doctrine teacher twice (this is a calling that terrifies me;)
She is loyal to the bone. She has always been a beautiful women and still is. She always tries to eat healthy and organic. She is also very generous. When Dan and I were struggling students she helped us out all the time. I can't tell you how much money her and my dad have spent on their children and grandchildren to make sure our needs are met.
Probably the thing I love the most about her and my sister Sam would agree: she is an AMAZING OUMA! My friends tell me all the time that they can't believe my mom actually wants to be around my children for two weeks at a time. She honestly loves her grandchildren and treats each of them like little princesses and now a prince. She is super protective of them too. That's why I really don't have a problem sending my daughters down there for a long time because I know they are in loving hands;)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM...we all are lucky to have you in our lives.
8 comments:
Happy Belated birthday Aunty Sharon!!! like melissa i neglected your birthday, and for that i apologise! i hope that you had a wonderful day, and got spoilt rotten! Thankyou Melissa for the lovely post! i remember your mom giving me those extra math tutoring after school! inbetween the learning we had some fun to! Love you lots and lots! Miss you all! X
Sweet tribute, everything you said about mom is true... except she does have a crush on the institute teacher. We're lucky to have her and I'm luckier to live close to the best ouma around. Have fun this week.
Samantha, I have eyes for one man only and that is your father. I adore him! No man can match up to his oldest tackies. I love the scriptures though, in fact I delight in them. That is the only reason why I will not miss an institute lesson. I feel like the luckiest person alive. I have four wonderful children, their four amazing spouses, four cutest grandchildren with a fifth on the way. My problems are small and insignificant when compared to all that I have to be grateful for.
Happy birthday Sister Sharon!
A beautiful tribute Lissy - Happy Birthday Aunty Sharon, everything that she says about you is true. I remember you sitting in bed on a Saturday morning with Maths textbooks - now that is truly dedication to learning.
A beautiful tribute to your mother Melissa! I'm sure your kids will be saying the same things about you! You are so sweet!
Melissa, your blog about your mom gave me goosebumps. I will always remember all the nights I spent at your place in Nigel as a child. There was nothing your mom (and dad) wouldnt do for us!
Arent we so lucky to have such great rolemodels to look up to when we feel like we cant go on anymore!
Hopefully our children will have such nice things to say about us in years to come.
Love and miss you all and hope the preggy belly is doing well
It's great to read about how wonderful your mother was/is. She truly is one of the most AMAZING women I have ever met! Love the antique picture of them.
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