As a young child, I loved going to late drive-in movies with my father as we waited for my mother to get off her third shift job.
For himself, as my sainted mother used to say, he was smart.
For as singularly as important as my mother has been in my life, there are so many other women who have also played significant roles in my development.
As a mother my concern is for the children.
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My father became a pharmacy technician while studying for his US equivalency exam, and my mother worked as a grocery store cashier while attending nursing school.
"As soon as Paul saw my mother in 1969, he thanked her for saving his life, " said Louis, from Wilrijk, near Antwerp.
This year I am looking forward to celebrating Mother's Day with my mother and will try to make it as special for her as possible.
It is the basic inequity that retirees living in the USA, for instance - about 30 minutes as the crow flies from where my mother lives in Ontario - do receive the cost of living adjustments.
At any rate, for what it's worth, as both a stay at home mother until my sons were in high school and then a four-day-a week office manager to a plastic surgeon I have experienced both sides of the equation.
As I tossed that thought around for a while, one person kept coming to mind: my mother.
My mother came to Houston from her small, Texas coastal town for opportunity, as well.
But we were fortunate enough to have a pediatrician, as I've mentioned, that kind of waved the red flag for me, as a mother, and basically cautioned me that I had to take a look at my own children's BMI.
Because I'd missed a number of days traveling back and forth to the West Coast to care for my mother in the months prior to her death, I felt I should return to work as soon as possible.
My mother had got busy with various fund-raising schemes for the theatre and donated her services as an usher.
My mother phoned the theatre as soon as we got home and let in Blitzee, who was waiting for us.
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