farmdoc's blog post number 385

Today’s Mother’s Day. A day for honouring mothers. Here are some of my thoughts about Mother’s Day 2009:

      This is the 14th Mother’s Day since I’ve been able to honour my mother by personally thanking her for being my Mum. I miss her as much as if she’d died yesterday.

The first Mother’s Day without a mother physically present, is the hardest. I wish I could hug Sweetheart Vivienne today. And comfort her. But we’re 500km from each other.

Sweetheart Vivienne has been, and is, a superb mother to our four darling daughters. I never cease to marvel at how superb.

The proof of the pudding’s in the eating. Take one look at, or spend one moment with, darling Indigo and Jarrah and Pepper; and you’ll know how good a mother darling Kate is. I doubt they come any better. She has wonderful role models, but I think in addition she’s a wonderful mother instinctively.

It’s a delight for me to see darling Meg mothering darling Zephyr. In our family there’s no precedent for what she’s doing, so she’s breaking new ground. Last Friday she wrote: ‘I still feel like his parent for all seven days, just as I'm sure his mum does’.

Darling Emily and her feline housemate D’Angelo? I haven’t yet had the pleasure of meeting him and seeing them together. But I’ll bet a fair bit of mothering’s going on there.

I don’t know why Mother’s Day, like other commemorative days, has to involve gift buying and giving. Materialism and commercialism don’t need to intrude. And shouldn’t.

And I don’t know why it’s Mother’s Day rather than Mothers’ Day. For this is a day to honour all mothers. Today belongs to them all.