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May 11, 2008

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY......

I consider being a mother the most important thing I have ever done.
And to put the frosting on the cake my husband and I have three wonderful sons to show for it....and wonderful memories. Like the time my middle son [who looked just like Charlie Brown when he was little] at age 8 decided that I
probably didn't mean him when I told all the kids to stay out of the barn because the rams were in the milking barn. Yep...couldn't have been talking to him when I specifically said "DO NOT PLAY IN THE MILKING BARN".....
But boys will be boys and he and his friend not only went in, they were going to practice their "mutton busting" skills out on the Navajo Four Horned rams. Have you ever seen what the wild mountain sheep do to each other? Well...that's what they did to middle son. And his little friend came screaming out of the barn to the house screaming "he's dead...he's dead" after a ram got a little sick of their play and reared up and slammed my "baby's" head into the cement wall.
He has a very large scar to show for his trouble and mom got several wrinkles that day that have since shown up......
Or the time I was canning peaches and it was 105 degrees outside [and I was already crabby and tired] and I'm sure the kitchen was hotter when all of a sudden there was a huge boom and all the windows in the 1932 ranch house rattled. It startled me so much that I dropped the boiling hot jar of peaches that I had just taken out of the canning bath on the floor. ...where of course it smashed and boiling hot syrup went all over me.
Before I could even run outside all three sons ....and several of their closest friends ... came roaring to the kitchen, and with great glee, asked me if I had heard the boom. Heard it? Heard it? As I pointed out... before grilling them....the nearest neighbors at the next ranch two miles away heard it for cripes sake. They told me I didn't have to get sore at which, according to the youngest son [the illustrated one...pre-illustration] my eyes narrowed down like a cobras and some "friends" started inching their way towards the door to escape.
It seems their dad ...the Ph.D chemist [who should know better] and the dad of one of the friends that lived on the next ranch [who did avalanche control...ditto about knowing better] had been giving the little creeps ....oops ,I mean my sweet little boys....some pointers on how to blow things up.So hey had made a potato gun. A very large one.
Oh swell......
The very next week the circa 1850 catholic church had one of it's beautiful stained glass windows blown out by, you guessed it, a potato gun. The very Irish priest was so upset he was beside himself and said "Can you imagine? The window was destroyed by a potato....A POTATO! " Imagine him saying this with a heavy Irish accent...it makes it better, trust me.
That's what really got him....he took it as a personal insult.........as he put it later, after a shot of "spirits"..... " That a window in my church, the church of an Irish priest should be taken out by a potato of all things."
You have to admit the irony is delicious.........
And the best part? All of my sons were at home when this happened.........
Whew.......
I discovered that day why a little old lady of about 85 had stopped me in the store and said "You have three little boys?" and when I answered yes, she said "Oh ,god bless you dear...you'll need it"
And that falls in the no sh*t sherlock category.
But, you know what? I wouldn't change a moment of it...........
So for all of the other mothers out there....Happy Mother's Day...you deserve it.
And remember...some day soon, you really will laugh about it all....................and besides, you do eventually get to pay them back, and that is the best part.............

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