Mama Says: Watch & Learn

I can usually cure writer's block with iPhoto—a quick tour of our family pictures. This is one I hadn't noticed before, but I'm moving it to my Goin' Down to Mamas favorites. That's my mother feeding our friend Tahme's baby, while my teenage cousin looks on. I think this picture says so much about how we learn from the women in our families. We watch. We listen. We do both sometimes without even realizing we're doing it. Our mothers and grandmothers and aunts and cousins teach us how to be wives and mothers and friends and sisters. They show us how to care for other people—and stand up for ourselves. They give us the confidence to find our place in the world, when the time comes. And they circle around us when the Big Bad World treats us poorly. You can't count on the world. But you can count on Mama 'n'em:)

Comments

[Glenda Mitchell]

So true.

[valerieluesse]

Hey, Glenda! Happy New Year!