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March 12, 2007
Motherhood -- Sometimes the pressure is devastating. Sometimes the joys are overwhelming.
Lessons I Learned from My Own Mother
Happiness is not a place.
Be frugal – not cheap.
You can do anything you want to do. (Just do it with dignity and class.)
Enjoy life now – don’t wait until the kids are grown, or you retire, or you have enough money.
Believe in yourself (even if no one else, except your mother, will).
Give people the benefit of the doubt – most people do not set out to deliberately hurt you.
Don’t play the victim role (it’s very unbecoming).
Don’t wear blue eye shadow (you look like a “streetwalker”).
Focus on your good health while you have it – you may lose it without notice.
As a mother, do the best you can. But remember you will make mistakes and some of those mistakes will be huge.
Love your own mother now with all her faults because all too soon she’ll be gone.
If your own mother has already passed away, remember her, faults and all, with love and understanding and forgiveness.
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