Living in... Mother's Day

How could I not post today!

I am my own woman and my mother.

My mom, Sharlene was a talented, strong independent woman

who taught me all the good characteristics that I possess.

She left this earth with a great legacy of determination to

be successful in living with health obstacles that

we may encounter with our imperfect bodies.

I still and will always cherish her.

I found this quote that says exactly how I view my mother;

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally

in the family confederacy, an extension of her self.

And mothers are their daughters' role model,

their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.

~Victoria Secunda

Me and mom in 1978

(the day of my first marriage)

Mom and me celebrating my 40th birthday

(1998)

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Here are my "BONUS" Mother's.....

Left to right: Juana (Dalton) Terry & Margie(Smith) Swenson

Thanks for your example and love!

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come

by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds.

Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters,

aunts and cousins, comrades and friends

- but only one mother in the whole world.

~Kate Douglas Wiggin