Thank God for moms!

I know it’s been a looooooooooooong time. Sorry, all my dear friends. I’ve just been busy … really busy. And in all that busyness I came across a nugget I wanted to share with all of you.

One morning, a colleague offered our team some candies. One of the brats in the team said ‘If I was a woman I’d wrap it up and take it home to my kids.’ That statement hit me like a bolt out of the blue for my memories were awakened to this very real fact in the lives of moms around the world. I remember the 100s of times my brother and I eagerly waited to dig into my mom’s pockets for sweets that seemed to always be there – thanks to the fact that she was a nurse and in a human-resource rich nation like ours, beaming fathers celebrated the arrival of their newborns with sweets to everyone at the hospital almost every other day.

I always assumed momma did not like sweets. She’s 60 today and with tears in my eyes I discovered only a few years ago that she enjoyed sweets just as mush as her sweet-toothed kids! So now you know who happily gives up her share of sweets so that a warm, huggable lady who sacrificed her fondness for sweets in her younger days gets to enjoy a lot of it in her retired days!

Thanks mom! You’ve taught me a lot without a word.

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