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I Love My Mother!

Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:10:18 PM

My mother is a great lady. She taught me how to:

tell the truth
look at the moon
help others
bake apple pie
plant flowers

care about animals
take care of sick people
work hard
put talcum powder in the pin box to prevent rust
have hope

re-use plastic "everythings"
play fair
bake cakes
have compassion
make mashed potatoes

draw pictures in mashed potatoes
keep my stainless steel shiny and new
remember how much i have rather than that which i lack
try my best
give hugs

blow kisses out of the back windows of cars
offer somebody a jersey if it's cold and they're without one
really look at the natural world
give back to those who've helped me
make something out of nothing with absolutely NO money

keep warm and cosy during thunderstorms
take candy after medicine
be physical
sing while washing dishes
enjoy modern musicians no matter how old i get (and appreciate Freddy Mercury and Mick Jagger)

dance
wear sandals
make jam
wear shorts
grow plants from cuttings

whip excellent egg whites
save..everything..because I might need it later (i always do)
remember tomorrow will be a better day
read
add and subtract

LOVE

Yes, my mother rocks!

I love you mom, and THANK YOU! bigsmile






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Comments

Fatimahzenya Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:18:19 PM

Your mom is a lucky lady smile

It's nice to see that children appreciate their
MOMS smile

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MichelleCapegirl Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:24:39 PM

hey GF, as we get older we begin to most appreciate the things we were taught when we were very young...maybe it takes a lot of years to really learn them or to appreciate them. but i bet mothers know THAT too lol

Fatimahzenya Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:31:35 PM

well I wish my daughters were like you smile

I don't take anything for granted any longer

One never knows sad

MichelleCapegirl Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:42:47 PM

well there's some things my mom forgot to tell me too lol but that was mostly because she didn't know them herself. i chose some while back to remember the good things and to also understand how they have ironically helped me to deal with the bad ones. it's most strange. and it's funny to realise how good she really was, always in the background keeping things together...like ALL moms do, all the time smile

GF, i know they will come around. maybe they must just sort through things in their heads and let things go like i did. where there is life there is hope GF heart heart heart

Jamesunlisted Friday, March 14, 2008 4:35:26 AM

I'm with Michelle on this one, Fati: your daughters just need time to come around. There's comfort in knowing that even though it can't be easy for you.

Honestly, which would you rather have for your children: mindless obedience or appreciation from somebody with a mind of her own?

Becoming your own person takes time, love, but it'll be worthwhile for all of you.

Darkogdare Friday, March 14, 2008 5:50:19 AM

Nice one up

yomeritayomeriux Friday, March 14, 2008 1:42:45 PM

Miiicheelleeee, ma belleeee..la.la la..
la.laa...drunk

Nice post!

What would we do without our mothers?confused

MichelleCapegirl Friday, March 14, 2008 2:18:13 PM

James yep.. up

Darks...thanks! bigsmile

Marina..lol, that song was such a hit! what indeed!? i remember i talked to my mother once on the phone..then i said: "anyway! i'm older now, so i must deal with it"..she said: "i don't stop being your mother, ever" smile lol

yomeritayomeriux Friday, March 14, 2008 2:43:03 PM

haha, that`s true p and we keep coming back to them lol

MichelleCapegirl Friday, March 14, 2008 3:24:50 PM

well i try not to bother my mom too much..i always think she deserves a chance to not have to be taking care of people, after having done it all her life. actually i seldom turn to anybody for advice. iif i really need new input get it online p lol

Jamesunlisted Friday, March 14, 2008 4:13:02 PM

My mother once said, "No matter what, James, you'll always be my little boy."

I've been taller than mom since I was eleven years old. Nice to know that that's only good for so much.

I also think that advice is overrated, regardless of the source. Some folks want advice on EVERYTHING. rolleyes

Then they're all doh when it doesn't pan out.

yomeritayomeriux Friday, March 14, 2008 4:34:21 PM

hehee, I have never really appreciated advice that hasn`t been asked for furious

(well, except in very few occasions p )

Michelle, in my case it`s exactly the opposite p
I mean, she calls me A LOT, sometimes probably too much. I think that we really appreciate our mothers when they give us space.

yomeritayomeriux Friday, March 14, 2008 4:36:47 PM

And yes, I too get some input from other sources as well. I respect my mom`s points of view but we are very different in some things, so... I rather ask somewhere else (normally).
rolleyes

MichelleCapegirl Friday, March 14, 2008 6:18:14 PM

ha ha! i always thought those were the best ones ...the advice you don't really want to hear!!! lol those are the ones we need to listen to.

i guess she just misses you... smile

Nicknickthesurfer Friday, March 14, 2008 6:26:23 PM

nice ....... in a cool way smile

MichelleCapegirl Friday, March 14, 2008 6:31:16 PM

thanks Nick! bigsmile i like to just say basic things sometimes. things as i feel them.

yomeritayomeriux Friday, March 14, 2008 8:56:15 PM

Well, I don`t go to her for advice, only to share stuff , we are good friends!up

Haha! tell me about the advice. SOmetimes when my parents come for vacations, and I go to take a cinnamon bun, (and I have a few kg extra) my Dad will say: you should not be eating that!

scared bomb

so, yeah p

Darkogdare Friday, March 14, 2008 9:26:51 PM

lol
They always know when to say right words p

MichelleCapegirl Friday, March 14, 2008 9:34:07 PM

ha ha! marina, my dad is SO outspoken like that, it's just not true. that is where i get it from. and why i can be very direct-but i can also take it from others.

my mother is a lot less direct in speech. ah ya! but i never worry about anything like that, anymore. if i feel fine then anyone can say whatever and it's mostly ok with me. when we are parents then we'll understand how it feels to have a child and then he/she leaves..but some part still sees you as that child smile

darks, they do and also sometimes the wrong ones..ha! that is family. we are all the same smile

yomeritayomeriux Friday, March 14, 2008 10:32:14 PM

Darko, indeed! ahaha..lol

Michelle... I learned to be direct like that from my Dad too, but at some point I decided to be a bit more polite (casue I know hoe it feels and it`s not nice p) Well, at least not for the stuff that can be very hurtful, otherwise, I say things just like that and sometimes people is like bigeyes

It`s good that you don;t worry about anything like that anymore. I try to do the same, although sometimes I just can`t.

That day, OF COURSE I ate not one but 2 cinnamon buns headbang

Michelle, do you want to be a mom?? and you Darko??

MichelleCapegirl Friday, March 14, 2008 11:01:30 PM

yes, but i haven't quite figured out how to align that with the Dian Fossey in me. lol by which i just mean...i have some pretty serious conservation-slanted goals for the future and i'm not sure if i can/will choose to try to blend them with motherhood. child services might object bigsmile

MichelleCapegirl Friday, March 14, 2008 11:02:53 PM

how about you?

yomeritayomeriux Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:39:19 AM

lol Michelle. That conservation thing sounds great! what did you study?

I don`t know about having babies. Sometimes I think yes, then no, then yes, then no...

What I know for sure is that I have to function alot better than I do right now before thinking seriously about it.

All my life I dreamt about having animals, not really babies rolleyes lol

Darkogdare Saturday, March 15, 2008 6:26:19 AM

Me? Mom? bigeyes
Well, I prefer to be a father p

yomeritayomeriux Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:53:58 PM

LOL, you silly. Would you like to be a father??king

yomeritayomeriux Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:58:33 PM

Look Michelle, you can use something like this, and then you just carry your baby with you everywhere, No problems! you will be a conservationist and a half.

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mysweetdreamsbaby.com/images/cradlecarrier.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mysweetdreamsbaby.com/babygear.htm&h=480&w=319&sz=37&hl=en&start=3&sig2=0kEFA_vuVn2Af-hbIHjRng&um=1&tbnid=qwiM2YcNqWsItM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=86&ei=RcfbR4SEI5fiigGrtfXiBQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbaby%2Bcarriers%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

lol

That`s exactly the way indians carry their babies around. I love it. If I ever have kids, I will get one headbang

Darkogdare Saturday, March 15, 2008 1:30:41 PM

Yes, you can put laptop and baby at the same backpack lol

yomeritayomeriux Saturday, March 15, 2008 4:03:07 PM

hahah! good idea Darko, and the lunch too cheers

Jamesunlisted Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:46:21 PM

Yomerita, those things are cool, but what about the floating ghost babies that they attract? I mean, look at this!

http://www.mysweetdreamsbaby.com/images/suncape.jpg -

Adele BrandSittingFox Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:47:07 PM

That's a lovely poem! up

yomeritayomeriux Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:58:04 PM

lol unlisted! that`s so funny p

MichelleCapegirl Sunday, March 16, 2008 1:14:50 PM

Marina, I studied Nature Conservation for 3 years at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology<http://www.cput.ac.za/>

It focuses on academic and practical, but mostly practical. academics are relatively pointless for this job. i have one more year to do, if i want to qualify with BTECH, which is like a B degree but technical. i'm not up for more study right now, though!

i love baby slings. i don't know why more women don't use them. i like that you can still cradle your baby in your arm if you want to. i also loved that little car seat cosy. smile

James that floating ghost baby is most strange, but i guess it's UV protective? it would be perfect for the southern hemisphere i guess, but i hope it's cool too, otherwise, poor casperbaby!

Darks and also the gun bigsmile

Thanks Adele! bigsmile

yomeritayomeriux Sunday, March 16, 2008 1:50:16 PM

Wow, that sounds like a great career love
do you have lots of chemistry, math and stuff? I would love to do something like that but what I have found so far is full of that and I really suck
awww

MichelleCapegirl Sunday, March 16, 2008 2:19:43 PM

no not really. soil subjects had some but turned out to be a favorite subject and not at ALL difficult. the botanical aspects had some floral formulas and such, but that also wasn't too hard in the end. there are a selection of calculations that you need to do in resource management and some for ecology, but by no means is this intensive. some students didn't enjoy dissection classes, but it was ok all around.

there is a lot of emphasis on practical skill sets, like firearms, using chainsaws, mixing poisons, first aid, problem animal traps etc...things like this :)and also field work in all three years, vegetation sampling, marine sampling, species studies, idenitifications, field guide certificates etc...they are far more interested in if you can handle the day to day aspects of the job technically..but of course you also have to do the academic stuff.and they did rather pile it all in in a limited time frame so that was tough.

yomeritayomeriux Monday, March 17, 2008 1:12:39 PM

It sounds so cool!!!!

I think here the only thing that we have is environmental studies (at least close to where we live).

MichelleCapegirl Monday, March 17, 2008 2:32:21 PM

it IS cool, but you have to be mentally and physically strong,and unemotional, deal with people who are as "unique" as you are, accept that there is not enough money to do the things you want to do. kill animals even if you hate it. -especially CATS sad work 10 hours and then another 10 if need be. accept how little you'll see your family and the impacts this has...at times etc...it is not riding around in a jeep showing tourists elephants and lions (i always say that because most people think this is what it is lol)so these courses come with a few warnings attached! lol

why not do some more research and think about it. smile

Jamesunlisted Monday, March 17, 2008 4:04:25 PM

Yeah, Michelle, unlike you I didn't have the good sense to stop the scientific studies sooner.rolleyes Honestly, though, I wouldn't trade my education for anything.

The thing is, Yom, you love those techie-type jobs or you don't. I got burnt out, but many of my friends still love doing it.

If you really love it, go for it. What do you have to lose?

Jamesunlisted Monday, March 17, 2008 4:08:09 PM

Oh, btw, that white gown thingy is for UV protection, Michelle.

And, Yom, tu puedes llamarme Jaime. bigsmile

MichelleCapegirl Monday, March 17, 2008 4:33:51 PM

well i graduated my course of study. the Btech is an extra year on top of that-optional, so i didn't give anything up really. i just had other things in life that took precedence over Btech at that time. most students i studied with then are only doing it this year or not yet..the job is too taxing! lol

Rhona Kirstenrhona Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:19:08 PM

Hi Michelle smile I want ur Mum, she rocks!! The evidence is in her daughter up

LarryEL-GE Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:47:25 PM

I know I'm late, but I do love this, thank you for shareing it.
Your Mom has got to be one awesome lady. smile

JCLJCL_75 Tuesday, April 8, 2008 4:54:47 PM

That's so sweet smile

I think most people would be able to find something to relate to in your Ode to Mothers yes

Just the other day I was thinking about how kind my mom is - and sometimes I feel like I don't do enough for her. But I guess it's thoughts like that, that stop people from taking their Moms for granted.

thanks, Cape Girl.

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MichelleCapegirl Wednesday, April 9, 2008 9:09:08 PM

JCL, so true...my mother is also phenomenally kind in her way. i think this is the last generation where human kindness and decency was given great importance, don't you? it seems this way to me. poor us generation x-ers too! caught between two worlds occassionally heard to reminisce while admonishing ourselves to move on..ahhhhh so!

JCLJCL_75 Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:56:13 PM

I think maybe once we evolve past our greed and self-servient attitude humankind might actually become a bit more altruistic. Although maybe this will be expressed outside of the nuclear family and more towards a global consciousness. Wow! You would think I just finished reading a new age book?! lol

J.

ja'jga1000 Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:41:41 PM

nice lessions of the mom. i will follow some, yes. its all good. peace and love always..kiss kiss

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