OT: Mother's Day Question: What did you get from Mom?

Hmmmm.... other than my baby-fine hair (48 years later I'm still not sure whether that's a positive or a negative!), I didn't get much from my mom (other than her love and -- as an adult-- her friendship, of course)! 

I am VERY much my father's daughter... from my dark eyes and my general build to my stubbornness and independence...

Lora

This is a great thread, as I am missing my Mom alot today!  She passed away 6 years ago, and I miss her everyday.  She was my best friend.


Good atributes - Love of God
                           Sense of humor
                           Ability to tell it like it is when asked ( and only when asked!)

Bad atributes -   you know, I am sure she had some, but I honestly cant think of any.
                           Ok, one....I never can tan, ever.  And boy she was dark...every summer!!  lol..

And of course my daughter gets the tanning thing from my mom...sure sure... 

For all the moms out there  "HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!"  It is the hardest , most unappreciated job you will ever LOVE~~

My relationship with my mother has come a long way over the last 10 or so.  I would say the positive things I got from her was my sense of responsibility to work hard and take care of my child, my independent nature, my outspokenness, my love for and knowledge of God, my tendency to take up for others(even though she didn't always take up for me but would go nuts over her siblings),.
The negative things I think I inherited is my tendency to pick loser men for mates, my tendency to walk away from a relationship instead of putting in the effort to make it work, tendency to bully my son because I don't have a lot of patience with explaining why he should do something, I just expect him to do it because I said so, single-motherhood, quick temper, stubborness.

Happy Mother's Day Denise!!! I think you are super adorable...

I am trying NOT to be like my mother, I want to be open and honest with my kids, be there when they need me and never stop being a MOM no matter what age they are. I guess she did the best she could... but I want to be better!!!

Thank you for this post so I can reflect on what kind of Mommy I want to be

I don't look like my mom. At all. She's gorgeous, but I don't look like her.

She and my brother? You can tell they are related. She and I? No go. In fact, people think I look more like babydaddy's mom than my own!

She's dark, I'm light. She has reddish-brown hair, I have black. She has light eyes, I have dark.

BUT

She gave me her tenacity. Her will to survive no matter what. She gave me her fighter's spirit. She gave me an unrelenting belief that I am worth being in this world (even when I didn't consciously recognize it). She gave me a slight temper and a very low tolerance for bull**** She gave me her generous spirit and her desire to help people, just because it feels good. She gave me my unwavering, unbinding and ever growing love of COMMUNITY.

For those things, I am most grateful. So who cares if I look adopted? (lol) She made me the woman I am! The good, bad and the UGLY.

From my good ole "mommadoodles" I got my singing voice, my ability to speak well in front of large groups,my charisma, my love of the Lord, my desire to serve, serve and thenserve some more.

Negatives are weight, humongous boobs and skin tags......

 i am my father's daughter and I got everything from him.  I loved my mother and I would have killed for her and also probably would now if someone said something negative about her, but she was not a strong woman and I am.  If anything I got from my mother it would have to be my ability to speak my mind and not in a nice way either.  Something i am not proud of.