OTHER MOTHERS IN MY LIFE

My Granny Bea

Beatrice Elizabeth for whom many future children are named

She looks a little surrounded

can you say Thobi Ohoyo(white woman)?

She meant the world to me and I think about her kindness every single day of my life!

I miss her like crazy..she was my rock!

M

my sister who is married to my oldest brother

she's been in my life since I was 12 and his since he was 13

She tried to teach me and her aunt..(yes her aunt is 2 years younger than her) to smoke

I think she was trying to flirt with my brother

This is how she looks on the inside too!

My sister Tracy

she is younger than me and is one of the best mom's in

tarnation!  She mothers us all!

She's a knock out!

Kimberly

My sister married to my middle brother

I adore her...she is cool, fun and spunky and she has snackipoos 

at will

She is so gosh darn pretty and did I say I adore her?

our children

Charles who will make Jena a mother someday

Mattie Beatrice who will be a mother someday

Grace...my favorite young mother and my daily inspiration with her 

patience and incredible love

she is a hippy gypsy soul of my soul

they all are

I am their mother, but now we are friends

 Betty Beatrice who I'm sure will be the mother of all mothers

she kind of already is taking the place of Tracy

My baby brother Ross created two mothers but he's the best "boy" mother I know! 

I attended a wedding this January where the Father Priest told the bride this,

"your number one goal in your life is to see to it that your husband and children go to heaven"

I have thought a great deal about that statement and the huge responsibility we mothers have in the

molding, shaping and creating of those who are put in our arms straight from heaven

and

there are other mothers who may not have children born from their womb, but are just as instrumental in filling a jar of clay with life giving water

It is a holy place

 this heart that loves a child

 and then children and more children and 

on an on 

goes the potter's wheel