Happy Mother's Day

This is my Mother. She was a wonderful woman who is now an angel in Heaven. Mom was a quiet person who had gentle ways. She was an excellent cook and nobody could cook like my Mom!

She had a hard life really. She never worked outside the home and she never learned to drive. She worked alongside my Dad in the fields many times hoeing corn (yep, they used to do that back in the older days!), and then later hoeing tobacco, and helping to do all the other things that went along with being a farmer's wife and a mother to 3 boys and a girl. She worked in the garden and canned so much good stuff that tasted wonderful during the winter months. She cooked for the tobacco crews that came in to help cut tobacco. She gave birth to all of her children at home except one, and that was my brother next to me.

She was the one we went crying to when things didn't go right or we got hurt. She used to put turpentine and sugar on a cut and it always seemed like whatever she did was just right. She took a switch to us when we needed it, which wasn't too often thankfully!

Mom was a Christian woman who prayed fervently for her children, husband, family members, friends, and neighbors.

She loved flowers and the simple things in life. She took time to smell the roses. She had no enemies. When I hear that song, "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again," I always think of Mom. I have so often seen her on her knees praying out loud.

She was a saint on earth and I know she's a saint up in Heaven!!

Happy Mother's Day Mom. You were the very best of the best. I love you and I miss you still.