Sweetmother, What’s Up?

I Will Never Forget You

If there was a day for everything you have given to me as a mother, it would be Mother’s Day every day. Thanks for always helping me to remember what is important in life… and today it is you! You’re the best! Thanks for all you do.

I am close to tears, as I sat behind my computer to once again express my deepest gratitude and joy for another Mother’s Day.

I am fortunate to be born by a loving and caring mother who sacrificed her nights to make sure I had a good night sleep, but I am more than delighted that I was a son to thousands of mothers I came across growing up as a child, and even today as a man.

I bet if I asked anybody to, in one word, describe his or her mother, it would take the world of eternity to be able to do that, so if I am alive today to see another Mother’s Day, all I could say is Happy Mother’s Day to all women out there, who have made it possible for us to have life, and for me apart from my mother giving me love, she showed me how to love.

Growing up, I never saw my mother sleep, as I was in and out of the hospital, thankfully apart from the fact that I had more than one woman in the house I called ‘mum’, I was part of the society where as a child belonged to everybody in the society.

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers—Jewish proverb If ever you doubt and or ever contemplated how God is, just look at your mother. God epitomizes himself in our mothers, their compassion, forgiveness, caring, ever-loving nature, are but some of the attributes of God, and these attributes can be found in our mothers. The Jewish proverb could not have put it better.

The fact that we are all alive and strong today is because our mothers never forgot to pray and protect us. My father never raised his finger on me, he never scolded me, as a child I thought he loved me more than my mother, who would never overlook any bad thing I did. She would first of all report me to my dad, knowing he would not do anything to me; she would wait until I am sound asleep, and she would wake me up and give me what I deserve.

The good news is that I am sure to have all I need the next day. A testament that she did not beat me, because she took fun in it, but even more than that she still loved me.

I can never be thankful enough for what my mother did for me, all I could say is that I love you mum. Even though I cannot be what she wants me to be but I promise to make her proud.

I have never said thank you for bringing me into the world I’d like to do that now. Every year we have the opportunity to observe mother’s day, as well as days such as Valentine’s Day, Father’s Day etc.

Of all these days Mother’s Day to me is the most important day of all, but the question I ask is how many of us really observe that day with our mothers? Does it generate the kind of interest in terms of promotions from institutions and the media? How many people really wake up that day and call their mothers and say “Mum, I want to take you out”? yet when it is Valentine’s Day the world would come to a standstill.

Our wives and girlfriends, especially those who get all the goodies, the text messages and the outings, during valentine’s Day, should remember they are also mothers in the making. And so, I would wish that they would be the ones to want to remind us to be conscious of our responsibilities to our mothers.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. If my father had ever thought me anything, it was that he loved my mother unconditionally, although he had three wives he loved and lived with them and you could hardly tell that they were rivals. I wonder how he managed to do it but it was a lesson I have lived with till day and hope to pass it on to my children, when I also become a father. So fathers if you have any gift for us, love our mothers as if there is no tomorrow.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. Ronald Reagan

We have witnessed wars, uprisings, rebel insurgencies, coup d’états, and all the ills in society that have claimed human lives since creation. I am yet to read anywhere that, these atrocities have ever been led by women. It is always the men. Yet our mothers suffer the consequences of our actions. This year is another election year, and our fathers have started throwing salvos at each other, declaring wars and threatening fire and brimstone, if the elections do not go their way.

My appeal to our mothers is to talk our fathers in the bedrooms and advise them not to tear this country apart with their ambitions, and again as they go to bed, every night, they would pray for all of us so that as they have done over the years, these elections sould be free and fair.

I have always watched our mothers when they gather to pray for us and the nation through ‘AGLOW FOR JESUS’, the passion that drives them is enough for God to bless this country. Have our fathers ever thought of such a thing, all they care about is power, power and power to mismanage us and lead us into a perpetual abyss.

our mothers deserve the best, they deserve a little of the love they gave us, a little appreciation for what they have done for us, while our fathers are asleep or out there chasing small girls who are old enough to be their daughters. Yet when someone asks a mother, how is the family, she always answers, everything is okay. She would never wash her dirty linen in public.

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie—Tenneva Jordan

A mother would not eat until her children have eaten, she would not sleep until her children are asleep. If our mothers were to tell us how much our fathers give them as housekeeping money, we would asked them how they managed to put food on the table.

This is my letter to all mothers

Dear Mother Motherhood is a tough 24 hour job, no pay, no day off, sometimes it is unappreciated, but yet resignation is impossible. A mother is a woman who is created by God to bring love, joy, happiness and caring into his world. I am so glad God has created a woman to be a mother, even though motherhood is a full time job, a mother’s work is never done. Happy Mother’s Day.