{"id":10823,"date":"2021-05-09T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/?p=10823"},"modified":"2022-11-30T01:08:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T06:08:48","slug":"many-mothers-in-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2021\/05\/many-mothers-in-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Mothers in my Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The big day arrived- Mark Steven decided to make his appearance a month early. He was due Feb. 26th. Went to the hospital about 2:30 pm and he arrived at 3:53 PM. His cord was unusual it measured about 4 feet long. Was so surprised to hear that we had a boy. Louise Wilson\u2019s Diary<\/strong>\u20131\/27\/71<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It was almost a year ago that I put up my first post on the Catholic Bard. It was on Mother\u2019s Day 2020. I chose Mother\u2019s Day on purpose to officially start posting so that I could remember the day I got this wonderful opportunity to contribute my thoughts and writing to the world in such a unique and creative way. Mother\u2019s Day is the day Patheos Catholic gave birth to the Catholic Bard.<\/p>\n
And here we are Mother\u2019s Day 2021 one year later.<\/p>\n
And here I am still writing and posting.<\/p>\n
Time to remember our mothers once more with their own special day.<\/p>\n
My mother was my best friend growing up.<\/p>\n
$\"\"$ <\/p>\n
She bent over backwards to provide me with a happy childhood.<\/p>\n
She got a job driving a bus just so that I could be with her.<\/p>\n
She would help my creative endeavors by drawing whatever pictures I asked her to draw for me.<\/p>\n
She drew pictures on my lunch bag. I called this my drawing lessons even though it was her who did the drawing.<\/p>\n
Mark will not let me alone. He wants me to write about him so he can know what he did when he was small. He wants to be sure I put in that Laurie stepped on his toe. He wants also to have me put in about his \u201c Sean & Marky\u201d comic books that he makes. He gets the ideas and dictates his ideas to me each night so I can draw them. He calls them Our \u201cDrawing Lessons\u201d. But I have to do all the drawing.\u00a0Louise Wilson\u2019s Diary-July 2nd, 1977<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In one particular video I made for my 8th grade history class on Lewis and Clark, she dressed up as a charging elk wearing a fur coat and an Alf mask.<\/p>\n
My mother is the reason I don\u2019t swear or drink alcohol. There was a time I didn\u2019t listen to rock music, cause my mother didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Her all-time favorite musical artist is Merle Haggard and this is the song we danced to at our wedding.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\nThere was the time my father wanted to take me to an R rated movie called the Eye of the Needle.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t go because my mother wouldn\u2019t have liked it.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10828 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2021\/05\/eyeof-the-needle-158x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"393\"><\/p>\nWhen I was older and I visited her she would have the meatloaf that I loved frozen in the freezer waiting for me whenever I came to visit.<\/p>\n<blockquote>Before I forget- One day Mark insisted on eating a cookie just before lunch. I told him \u201cno\u2019. Then Patty tried to explain to him that sweets would give him \u201ccavities\u201d I then asked him if he wanted soup, baloney or waffles. He replied \u201cI want cavities\u201d. Louise Wilson\u2019s Diary\u00a0<\/strong>November 7th, 1974<\/p><\/blockquote>\nShe would also whip out a chair and grab some scissors and insist she cut my hair.<\/p>\nMark had his first haircut. They were long in back with some snarlies- off they came. Now our boy looks like a boy. (he now weighs 81\/2 lbs) Louise Wilson\u2019s Diary<\/strong>\u00a0March 28th, 1971<\/p>\nOn a trip back from Ohio one year I called her on mother\u2019s day just to tell her I didn\u2019t have time to talk to her that day. Then I rang the doorbell a few minutes later.<\/p>\nWhenever I called her she was never sure I was down the street or across the country.<\/p>\nShe wasn\u2019t Catholic but she did help install in me a reverence for God and other people. I saw her prepare her communion for her Methodist church service and saw her reading her Upper Room Meditation on a\u00a0 regular basis. She, combined with my father, helped instill in me a religious faith that was real and grounded in loving God by\u00a0 serving others.<\/p>\nShe always put up with my many interesting and quirky friends that I brought by the house.\u00a0 She always put up with me and was constantly amazed by me.<\/p>\n<blockquote>Today is a fabulous day- Mark asked to go to the potty & did #2. I almost dropped from shock. He is now \u201ctrained\u201d and I didn\u2019t think the day would ever arrive. He is no anxious to make his mother \u201cproud & happy\u201d. I now have to go out and by two pair of zipper pants and a \u201czoom shirt\u201d (stupid). Everyone kept telling me this day would arrive but I didn\u2019t believe them. \nLouise Wilson\u2019s Diary<\/strong>\u00a0June 20th, 1974 2 mounts before Kristin was Born.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMy mom has been gone from this earth since October 2016 and at times I still miss her.<\/p>\nBut I have other moms in my life to help support, encourage and discipline me. Mother\u2019s do all these things.<\/p>\nMy mother in-law Kathy Nealon looks out for me and my wife. I don\u2019t give her enough appreciation and I want to take this Mother\u2019s Day to say I love you and thank you for treating me like a son.\u00a0 I appreciate and am amazed still you remember everyone who came to our wedding and when everybody\u2019s birthday is. Thanks for being kind enough to give me my wonderful wife who acts like a mother to our daughter, never giving up on her despite the fact that she gave up on us. My own daughter is a mother as well, but we have yet to see the baby, cause she\u2019s not talking to us.<\/p>\nBack to Kathy. Here is a quick little quip of a story the illustrates her in full mother mode.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10834 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2021\/05\/towel-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\nNow I\u2019m telling this first part of the story, so I can tell the second part that comes afterwards.<\/p>\nThere was one time when visiting our house my Mother and Father-in-Law were somewhat displeased that our house wasn\u2019t as exactly clean as it should be. She comes out of the bathroom and says<\/p>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s This\u201d.<\/p>\nMy wife gave the obvious answer. \u201cA Towel. \u201d It had the word Harry on it. Harry was my dad.<\/p>\nShe said something like \u201cIt\u2019s Dirty\u201d.\u00a0My wife asked if she wanted a new one and she said \u201cNo I\u2019ll let my hands Drip Dry\u201d.<\/p>\nMy mother got mad at me once when she was trying to explain to me how to fold pants and I didn\u2019t take her seriously. I mean she got really mad. Sometimes you can\u2019t fool mothers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>Mark will soon be 8 and hasn\u2019t changed drastically. He is \u201callergic\u201d to work. He was told if he wet his bed because he wouldn\u2019t get up, that there would no Sat TV programs. When I came down at 7:30 AM he told me he was going to keep his pajamas as on all day. Knowing he was \u201cfooling me\u201d I wasn\u2019t surprised to see him all dressed, wrapped in his blanket, laying on a made bed. I asked if the bed was wet & he replied \u201c don\u2019t think so\u201d. When I uncovered the bed- it was. I then got mad because he lied to me. He said he thought it would be dry by the time I looked & he was \u201cafraid\u201d. I pointed out that it was the lie I was mad at and TV was off. We sat through a silent breakfast & he didn\u2019t cry or complain as I got the wheels rolling to see how I could get out of that one. I sat him down & we discussed what a lie was (he knew) & I told him if he would clean the pile of leaves up in the backyard by himself he could come in & watch TV. He stated off on his big job. First he scattered the leaves all he could so there would be less to carry away. Then I brought a rake. Then he got a big barrel which he filled so he wouldn\u2019t\u2019 have to make more then one trip. He finally found out he couldn\u2019t\u2019 carry it- there upon I emptied it out & he continued with the smaller barrel. He tried dumping the leaves out the back gate as it was closer- but I saw him & squashed that venture. Back he went to the grind of work. He kept calling to see if that \u201c was all\u201d, but I hung in until it was all done I hope he has learned something today- Louise Wilson\u2019s Diary<\/strong>-Nov 11th, 1978<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMy friend Marshall\u2019s mother, Merilyn Myers, whom I lived with her and Marshall for a while, when I was chit chatting with Marshall one night came in the room and said \u201cShouldn\u2019t you go to sleep\u201d?<\/p>\nMother\u2019s get concerned about these types of things. No matter what age, Mother\u2019s will point out these activities of daily living to their kids. Kristin does it too.<\/p>\nOne time when my parents went on vacation, when I was maybe a teen or in my early 20\u2019s living at home,\u00a0 my father said to me before they left with his finger pointing at me\u00a0 \u201cAnd NO Hanky Panky\u201d.<\/p>\nWhen I would go outside without shoes he would say \u201cDon\u2019t Be a Hero.\u201d<\/p>\nFather\u2019s always try to bestow on their kids piffy bits of wisdom. I\u2019m sure I have also.<\/p>\nMy father-in-law John on this occasion with the Harry towel tried to do the same thing. He said<\/p>\n\u201cWhat would you do if Jesus walked through the door?\u201d<\/p>\nThis was supposed to invoke a sense of reflection and contemplation about the errors of our ways. Instead it invoked from my wife,\u00a0 laughter.<\/p>\nNo, you don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbs.gfycat.com\/FlamboyantBlackBlackbuck-size_restricted.gif\" alt=\"Top 30 [hysterical Laughing] GIFs | Find the best GIF on Gfycat\"><\/p>\nI mean fall down on the floor, face red, not being able to breath, uncontrollable laughter that lasts several several minutes. When something strikes my wife as funny, She laughs. I have had to pause TV shows when this happens so we don\u2019t miss any of the show were watching. I had to tell her to keep quiet once when we were in court for something to stop laughing so we wouldn\u2019t get in trouble from the judge. Just where did she get this non-stop laughter? From her mother of course. When Kristin started laughing, it spread. Tension broken; my mother in-law burst out laughing. Long and hard she laughed up storm. And of course, John ended up laughing a lot also. Mother\u2019s may be full of toughness at times but their full of joy just as much.<\/p>\n<blockquote>Mark finally lets me go through the night. I have fooled him- I put an empty bottle in his bed during the night and I in the morning he finds it and sucks away on it. He is a little peach of an imp. Has taken 2 or 3 steps alone but still won\u2019t walk off on his own. Needs a finger or some assurance he won\u2019t fall. Now bites (my poor shoulder) screams when he gets mad, laughs at everything and in general is getting a personality. Louise Wilson\u2019s Diary<\/strong>\u00a0April 5th, 1972<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMy mother also had me fooled thinking butter and margarine were the same thing.<\/p>\nAs for other mother\u2019s there is\u00a0My Grandmother in Law Elaine who is the grandmother I never had.<\/p>\n<blockquote>Mark said today that he had no grandma or grandpa as they were in heaven. Then he said. \u201cSomeday I\u2019ll see them there? \u201c I said yes. And he in return said. \u201cWill I see Walt Disney too?\u201d \nLouise Wilson\u2019s Diary<\/strong>\u00a0July 10th, 1977<\/p><\/blockquote>\nOf course, there is also the blessed mother who prays for us Now and at the Hour of our Death. She can be both tough and loving as well.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2273 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2020\/08\/Our-LAdy-of-Emmitsburg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"257\"><\/p>\nToday thank the mothers in your life for loving you and helping you to be the person you are today.<\/p>\nKathy, Louise, Elaine, Merilyn, Kristin, Princess and Mary, I love you all.<\/p>\nThank you for being a mother and the love you have and are giving to your children.<\/p>\nThis goes out to all moms everywhere.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7_rBidCkJxo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The big day arrived- Mark Steven decided to make his appearance a month early. He was due Feb. 26th. 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