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May 8, 2005
Happy Mother's Day
This weekend was gorgeous, so today (tonite actually) is the first I have turned on my computer in DAYS. Spent Saturday at a market in the nearby town of Caltigirone and today at something called an "agriturismo" which is like a Sicilian bed and breakfast. Fantastic food that is served in at least five courses over about two hours. NOT fast food. It was also in Caltigirone but it was in a rural part that I had not yet been to.
Anyway, so on to Mother's Day. I got up this morning and found my kitchen doors shut (odd). When I tried to open one, I got screams of "get out, get out!". Jake and Eli were trying to fix me breakfast in bed. They did a great job with waffles, cut apples and onion bagel with cream cheese. The coffee, errmm. Let's just say that a new pot was made as tactfully as possible.
Here is a bit from a little book called "The Best of Oprah's What I Know for Sure".
The World can only value mothering to the extent that women everywhere stand and declare that it must be so. In our hands, we hold the power to transform the perception of motherhood. Whether we decide to work full-time while raising children, stay home with our kids, or bear no children at all, we need to understand that any put-down of the decision to mother is a threat to women's choices everywhere. We should no longer allow a mother to be defined as "just a mom". It is on her back that great nations are built. We should no longer allow any woman's voice to be drowned out or disregarded. As we affirm other women, and as we teach our sons, husbands, and friends to hold them in the highest regard, we honor both the mothers whose shoulders we've stood on and the daughters who will one day stand tall on ours.(this little book is a supplement to "O Magazine" which I normally don't read but this booklet was worth it.
So to all of us mothers - WE ROCK!
Posted by DebC at May 8, 2005 10:44 PM