Thanks Posie for sharing your life with a wonderful mother. My mother left school after 8th grade to help raise nine other siblings and work on her parents farm. She could sew, bake, budget like a CPA, get on a tractor to help my Dad farm and then look beautiful for church on Sunday. She taught us strict manners, loved on us, cried with our hurts and cried again with our successes, big or small. She taught me more than any teacher or college professor ever could have about life. Even though she isn't with us anymore, I still at age 64 do things and think "Now how did she say I should do this?"

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