Mom

A thousand definitions pop up when the word MOM comes to mind.

In honor of our mother's 51st birthday today, we thought we'd do a little research into the word.

"Mother": a female parent, a woman in authority...maternal tenderness or affection...something that is an extreme or ultimate example of its kind... -Webster's



"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos or threes, by dozens or hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole word." -Wiggins

"She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along." -Banning

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." -Jordan

"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best,

but his mother the longest." -Irish Proverb

"Sweater, n: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly". - Bierce

"Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries." -Talmage

"Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life." -Hawkins

"The best thing my mother ever did for her children was to love Daddy." -anonymous

Happy, happy birthday, Mom! We love you!