“I Could Never Sleep When You Were Sick.”

“I could never sleep when you were sick.”

When we were young and fell ill, my mom became sick too, with worry.  She’d stay by our side, watching our chests rise and fall.  She’d explain this scenario with fresh fear in her eyes as if she were again watching chicken pox spread across our torsos and our temperatures rise at an alarming rate.

At the time, I didn’t respect it.  I thought she was extreme, Type A and all those other things you might label someone who’s anxious, fearful and a little crazy.   

Then our first daughter was born.  And I was the one who couldn’t take my eyes off her because I was so in awe of her every breath.  I’d worry when she napped "longer than usual,” ran a fever or didn’t gain weight.  My worry was there, not because I was extreme, Type A or crazy, but because I loved my baby soooo much….

Let’s just say, I shamefully didn’t appreciate my mom nearly enough before I had children.

We at SixSeeds would like to say Happy Mother’s Day to all our own moms and to all mom’s who worry much, but love, care and sacrifice so much more.   

A Few Words About Moms:

We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.  (Henry Ward Beecher)

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.  (Honoré de Balzac)

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.  (Sophia Loren)

Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  (Elizabeth Stone)

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.  (Anonymous)

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Author Unknown)

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother.  A child is a child.  They get bigger, older, but grown?  What's that suppose to mean?  In my heart it don't mean a thing.  (Toni Morrison)

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.  (George Herbert)

I cannot forget my mother.  She is my bridge.  When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.  (Renita Weems
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Mother's love grows by giving.  (Charles Lamb)