Tell something great about your mom and/or MIL

[Colleens 40]

I saw this post on another board and thought it was a neat idea.

My mom has the biggest heart in the world and has always put others wants and needs before her own. She is the hardest working person I know, and I know that she has sacrificed a lot in her life to give her kids everything that she could. She is a great cook and baker and is always baking what ever her grandkids request. She always keeps (and kept) an immaculate garden and that insured that she was able to feed her family healthy meals. She always had so much in the garden that she would donate a bunch of the extra's to senior's homes so they could have some garden fresh veggies with their meals. I know that she had a very rough life growing up and she did everything possible to ensure that her kids had just the opposite!!

My mother in law is very sweet and does whatever she can to help out her family. She has had a pretty rough go at times, but still manages to stay strong and be there for her family. Many times as she was raising her kids she had to work 2 or 3 jobs to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table and I admire her for that....it counldn't have been easy. She offers to watch Emma whenever she has some time off so DH and I can have a date night. Whenever my DH is being stubborn and thinks he is right about something (when he isn't) she always takes my side!! I am very thankful that I have a good friendship with my MIL. Ohhh...and I can't forget, she raised an awesome son

[Neonred 3,575]

Something great? My MIL is 6000 miles away. That's pretty good.

[Max1gk 68]

Something great? My MIL is 6000 miles away. That's pretty good.

hahahahaha! Hear, hear!

[Neonred 3,575]

hahahahaha! Hear, hear!

She doesn't bother me since I really have no idea what she is saying when she talks, but there is some bad blood between her and my wife.

[Udella&Wiz 325]

In keeping with the original intent of the OP....

My mum was a world traveling babe - something especially rare back in 1958. She got her bachelor's in 2 foreign languages from the U of T and proceeded to find herself a teaching job overseas in 1959 (back when a lot of women only went to university to find a husband). She, along with her BFF, moved over to Germany (which wasn't very popular yet...WWII and all that)to a very small town and started teaching English. She spent a couple years there, travelled to Paris and Italy on holidays and had a grand old time.

She came back home, continued teaching, met my dad and soon after getting married they promptly moved back over to Europe - this time to Spain and France. They finally moved back home to Canada for good in 1968 and started making babies (me plus 2 brothers). She's an excellent cook, regimented housekeeper and organized to the hilt - I'm glad I inherited some of those traits from her.

I've always been proud of my mum for doing something beside the 50's norm and to her it's really not that big a deal - she had high asperations and stuck with them back then. She didn't really talk about 'women's lib' or anything in the 70's when I was growing up, it just went with the territory. Expectations at our house were more assumed then spoken out loud - never once did I think I couldn't do whatever I wanted to or that I wouldn't be going to university.

Wish I hadn't butted heads with her as much as I did, that's a big regret I have - especially now that she's been diagnosed with the beginnings of Altzheimers. I want to keep her memories alive as long as I can.