Legacy

At the heart of every great family is a mother...

whose words speak a language of love

whose actions build a lasting foundation

whose lessons inspire for a lifetime

~American Greetings 

Tomorrow is my mother's birthday, and I have been thinking about her life and how blessed I am to be her daughter.  Mom married Dad when she was 18, and turned 20 just a little over a month after I was born.  She always tells my siblings and me that she grew up with us.  When we were growing up, I remember playing games, baking cookies, making homemade Christmas ornaments and smelling up the house making "Shrinky-Dinks" (remember those?) and jewelry from old pill bottles and plastic beads.  I still have a "pill bottle necklace" that we made for my Granny back then.  Mom taught me some of the basics of sewing and how to crochet a chain stitch.  But more importantly, she taught me to be generous, to be kind, to be honest.  She taught me how to forgive, and to ask for forgiveness when I have wronged someone.  She taught me how to love, honor and respect my husband, and that it is possible for love to last for a lifetime.  She taught me how to pray.  We would be here indefinitely if I listed all the things that I have learned by being her daughter.  I am so grateful that God placed me in the Kincaid family, and I pray that I will impart such things to my family as the years go by.  As one of her three children, I "rise up and call her blessed." (Proverbs 31:8)