In honour of Mothers Day here in Canada and the United States, I am re-posting a poem written five years ago since I have a new group of readers. For the last few years I can honestly say I have been celebrating Mothers Day
everyday! I am very blessed so this Sunday we will enjoyed a day
of rest for our family to do whatever is easiest and makes them happy!!
everyday! I am very blessed so this Sunday we will enjoyed a day
of rest for our family to do whatever is easiest and makes them happy!!
Everyday Super Hero, Birth of her day
With a cloth in hand
She births her day
Throwing laundry
In baskets
Chopping food in her way
She folds, makes beds
She folds, makes beds
Runs up and down stairs
Answering questions
Gets breakfast,
makes lunches
Braids hair,
Inspects Homework
She showers, shaves
Throws makeup to face
Runs out the door
At a phenomenal pace
Drives children to school
Rushes to work
it doesn’t end there.
Dashing home late
with dinner to prepare
Children’s lessons to attend
Their practices to police
Fights to deter
Relatives to see
Stories to be read
Talks to be had
Exhausted she longs
For the comfort of bed
More laundry
more dishes
The phone
Rings again
Dog needs
A walk
Kitty needs fed
Ongoing obligations
Stir in her head
Along with
The guilt of
Things unattended
Like bills, the garden
Pants needing mended
On and on she
spins like a top
No time to get ill
Or grieve
Thing she’s not
It’s a luxury
Her day
Simple won’t afford
With all that she does
She deserves
A reward
Yet she’s
often Misjudged
Not Pampered
Not praised
Pitied by those
Expecting her to date
Still she conquers her list
Feeling overwhelmed
Yet rarely complains
As Critics peer on
Examining what’s missed
Heroic, honorable
Single moms of our times
Giving up evenings
to spend with her kids
An epic woman
In her effort to please
Yet so often treated
Like a contagious disease
Although this was written with all the single moms in mind, I dearly
respect all women who manage to pull off working a job,
while raising a family....... you are also my superheroes!!!
It's sometimes just a little harder with no partner to confer with
about finances, household mishaps and raising children.
No one to carry part of the load during the daily drudgery. Of
course their are extenuating circumstances where women have
the burden of elderly parents, a mentally ill spouse, or disabled
partner. Also very burdensome situations with little time
allotted to self preservation!! Cheers to all of you! Single or not you
can all relate to the many things women do in a day!
You all deserve a holiday on a deserted island....or should I say
a yummy Dessert-ed Island!!!
Raspberry Delight
2 cups of graham cracker crumbs
3 tablespoons of margarine
3 tablespoons of sugar
Mix those three ingredients together
pack down into a 9x13 pan
place in a 350 degree oven for 8-10 minutes
Prepare 2 cups boiling water add 2 packages of raspberry Jello stir well
then add a 600 g package of Frozen raspberries to the hot jello and stir
Place the mixture in the fridge for a bit then stir half way through ...
so it's a thickened but not solid
Beat one cup of white icing sugar with one package of cream cheese 8oz Then fold in the 500 g tub of Cool whip
After the graham cracker base cools, put a thin layer of the cool whip mixture over the whole base
then spread all the raspberry mixture,
finish off with the rest of the cool whip mixture.....
sprinkle some loose graham cracker crumbs for eye appeal
Store in the fridge.....can be doubled and frozen too!
So yummy my brothers favorite dessert!
Mother or not, I hope all women will take this time to honour who they are and do one special thing just for yourself! Love you ALL!!
What is one thing you can do to honour yourself?
2 cups of graham cracker crumbs
3 tablespoons of margarine
3 tablespoons of sugar
Mix those three ingredients together
pack down into a 9x13 pan
place in a 350 degree oven for 8-10 minutes
Prepare 2 cups boiling water add 2 packages of raspberry Jello stir well
then add a 600 g package of Frozen raspberries to the hot jello and stir
Place the mixture in the fridge for a bit then stir half way through ...
so it's a thickened but not solid
Beat one cup of white icing sugar with one package of cream cheese 8oz Then fold in the 500 g tub of Cool whip
After the graham cracker base cools, put a thin layer of the cool whip mixture over the whole base
then spread all the raspberry mixture,
finish off with the rest of the cool whip mixture.....
sprinkle some loose graham cracker crumbs for eye appeal
Store in the fridge.....can be doubled and frozen too!
So yummy my brothers favorite dessert!
Mother or not, I hope all women will take this time to honour who they are and do one special thing just for yourself! Love you ALL!!
What is one thing you can do to honour yourself?
