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Mothering Sunday
22 Mar 2009 09:27 amWORRY!WORRY!WORRY!
Mothers live in perpetual terror - of fire and flood and lonely roads, of evil men and lunatic drivers, of failing brakes and train derailments and aircraft hitting trees. They only let it show about three o'clock in the morning.
Mothers don't really have premonitions. They have been over every possible eventuality so often - both good and ill - that whatever happens to you, they've rehearsed it.
Hulking great muscle bound heros whose mothers have access to their baggage will find extra socks, vitamin c capsules, snipped out articles on the care of the feet and packes of dental floss tucked in among the pitons and ice axes.
Mothers are inclined to worry. All the time. Thanks, for not letting it show too much.
It's all very well saying, "Mum, don't fuss" - but it is she who discovers you haven't packed your documents.
~Pam Brown
Only when I became a mother did I gain a graphic insight into my own. You can't explain it, motherhood; it has to be felt.
Mothers live in perpetual terror - of fire and flood and lonely roads, of evil men and lunatic drivers, of failing brakes and train derailments and aircraft hitting trees. They only let it show about three o'clock in the morning.
Mothers don't really have premonitions. They have been over every possible eventuality so often - both good and ill - that whatever happens to you, they've rehearsed it.
Hulking great muscle bound heros whose mothers have access to their baggage will find extra socks, vitamin c capsules, snipped out articles on the care of the feet and packes of dental floss tucked in among the pitons and ice axes.
Mothers are inclined to worry. All the time. Thanks, for not letting it show too much.
It's all very well saying, "Mum, don't fuss" - but it is she who discovers you haven't packed your documents.
~Pam Brown
Only when I became a mother did I gain a graphic insight into my own. You can't explain it, motherhood; it has to be felt.