In Honor of Two Special Moms......

Scrolling through Facebook the other day I came across a posting that invited viewers to donate to an organization called International Rescue Committee. The information stated that a gift of $58 could provide schooling for one girl for one year.....I did some checking and the charity got very good reviews.

Mother's Day is one of those sort of "made up" holidays......but a nice one. When it rolls around every May it reminds me that, sadly, Dave and I can only toast the memory of our moms. We can't hug them anymore or say thank you for a mothering job well done.

One of our moms came from a privileged East Coast background.....private schools, four years at Wellesley College. The other came from a more modest Midwest family. She had to turn down a full scholarship at The Art Institute of Chicago because she couldn't afford to buy the supplies. She went to secretarial school, graduated and got a job to help her family.

Both moms were very supportive and loving and education was important to them......maybe especially so to the one who had not been able to attend college.

We thank them both for supporting our educational roads.....for encouragement, for participating in PTA organizations, for acting as "room mothers" (do they even have those anymore?). For showing up at teacher conferences, for celebrating graduations....and for being eager to explore the world, read a book, for their curiosity...for demonstrating that learning never stops.

So this year, for Mother's Day, we are going out to brunch with our daughter in Wisconsin, chatting on the phone with our son in Washington.....and sending two girls to school for a year.

In honor of two very special moms......Francis Mulford Woodard Smith and Elizabeth Linnea Lamberg Clark. I think they'd be happy about it....

"On Mother's Day, give your heart to humanity. Send a girl to school for a year in your mom’s name."