First Mothers Day without Mom

How about passing along a hug for mothers day?

Have you hugged your mother today? Truth of the matter is that for the first mothers day of my life, there won’t be a hug from mom. Only in spirit this time around.

Growing up, I was a complete shit and gave mom a hard time. You could say I was a trouble maker, a brat, or any other name you want to put on it. Guess you could say that boys will be boys, growing up I was the only one. All sisters and me, I’ll leave the number of sisters to your imagination. Lets just say that I get looks of shock, some pity and a great many awe you poor thing, when I say just how many sisters I have.

It used to make my sisters mad when I would tell them that they were a great conversation piece. It was true though, tell people the number of sisters with no brothers and you never knew where the conversation would take you. It gave me an out for being such a brat, people would understand when they found out about all the sisters with no brothers.

Lets get back to mom, shall we

Mom was always there with encouragement, despite the fact that I was such a shit and gave her hell growing up. Forgive the blunt language here, but having a kid like me would make you think twice about having more. That didn’t stop my parents though, they kept trying to have another son. Another son for mom was not in the cards, each new child was another daughter for her and sister for me.

Every mothers day without exception mom would get a personal visit. Even though mom is not here this year, she still got a personal visit. This year was different for mothers day. Instead of handing mom a flowering plant and taking her out to her favorite restaurant. My wife and I paid her a visit and planted flowers instead. We still got a hug for the effort, thanks mom.

Take the time to hug mom

Mom didn’t fully understand all this Internet marketing stuff that I would talk about. She would ask why I would want to leave a good job. We had many conversations about life, careers, and my quest for success in Internet marketing. She would always have some words of wisdom and advice to share. After being such a brat as a kid, mom and I became good friends in the end. In fact, we were good friends for many years.

When growing up, we think our parents and grand parents are out of touch. This is simply not true. Sadly, we find out just how wise they were after we grow up and have kids and grand kids of our own.

Then in times when all the generations would get together, I would look over at mom and see that smile. At that point you know that the smile was her knowing that we get it now. We finally get the fact that our moms and grandmas were very wise indeed, they knew it all along. That smile would speak volumes.

We all get busy in life, but life is really quite short and goes by in a flicker. In relation to time, none of us are here very long at all. Be sure to take a little time out and give mom a hug, grandma too. And if you don’t mind, give mom and grandma an extra hug from me, since I can’t do it for real any more. Thanks, that makes my day.

Give mom and grandma a hug, do it for them, do it for you, hug them for me too.

Happy Mothers Day!

John Stiles

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