So many mothers:
mine with her great gardening gams
independent and active, just like always,
and I with my empty nest
working, writing, studying and more.
Busyness channeled in different directions,
but independent.
I always said, “I’m raising independent children,”
like my mom
I did my job.
Far away my children lead their independent lives
and only rarely feel the need to call home to update us
on the latest news.
Other mothers,
keep their chicks under their skirts,
want to be involved in every aspect of their lives,
with weekly dinners, frequent phone calls,
dependent interconnectiveness whatever their ages.
‘Not better,
not worse,
Just different’
like the exchange student mantra.
Family is the place you begin.
Family is where they have to take you in.
Family is many things
and there are many mothers.
Shawn L. Bird 
Happy Mother’s Day
Thank you.
Love it! I share the same philosophy… Teaching my children to be independent! I’m raising adults, not children 😉
I think it is a good philosophy, but wonder if we shouldn’t have inserted a “at least text home once a week” clause in there! 😉
Yes! That would be nice 🙂
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My Mom is one of those who enjoys a call on Mother’s Day, her birthday and Christmas. The rest of the time, she is content in knowing I am okay.
Yup, that’s about it for us. Every once in a while a call that runs an hour or two to catch up does suffice.
This is wonderful, Shawn! My mom is in Minnesota (I got my call in).
🙂 Calls are good.
Thank you, these cell phones are actually good for something 😉
Do you have iBooks downloaded?
I sell 3:1 copies of my ebooks to iPhone users over Kindle users. 🙂 Reading is good!
I don’t have iBooks. I don’t have an iPad or iPhone. I will have to look Into this. Yes, reading is good 🙂
If you have an android phone there is FreeBooks. You can get a Kindle app for your phone. I see for sure it’s available for iPhone, but I’d expect there’s an android version.
(Whenever I type android, I’m envisioning Data from Star Trek).
I will look for FreeBooks, thank Shawn. I like your help better, Data would have overwhelmed me (information overload), you know how those androids can be 🙂
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Beautiful!