The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.

Mom's Shoes: Always Too Big!

by Dessa Rodeffer, Publisher/Owner

My whole life, I stand in awe of how my mother does it. How can she balance so many things and still manage to be so beautiful to so many people?

How can she take all that an over-active family of three sons, a daughter and husband can hand her, yet still have time to serve at church? She taught Sunday School, lead youth, started a junior missionary society, served her missionary circle while still working full time.

What was even more amazing is how she could come up quickly with a full-course meal three times a day.

How did my mother keep that stern look - and stick to her "no's" when everyone else I knew got to do it?

How did she know what would be best for me?

How did she have such a big heart to feed so many people at our table Ð even though she must have been tired?

How did she have the nerve of steel to chaperone so many parties at our house Ð many over night slumber parties?

And after I was a mom, she babysat, she helped me clean, she came to my parties, she shopped, vacationed, visited the grandkids, took them places.

How, at 87 and in a nursing home, does she remain so content and cheerful singing and reciting poems from her school days?

Mom's shoes will always be too big for me.