My daughter graduates from High School next week. I am so
very proud of the strong and independent woman she has become and I can’t wait
to watch and see what the next chapter of her life brings.
One of my hopes as a Mom is that somewhere along the
journey of being a Mom, I might be able to impart some valuable tip or life lesson…something
that would matter, and would sink in and would somehow have a positive impact on
my kids lives…Call it my Mommy Mission.
Yesterday, my son and daughter and I spent a good hour
texting back and forth and laughing about some of the aspects our lives over
the years that have been, let’s just say, somewhat less than ideal. We hee hee’d and lol’d and used a plethora of emoji’s
and all of the other texting versions of chuckles and laughs as we made fun of each
other, ourselves, and our circumstances, both past and present. And then, out of
the blue, my daughter texted the following… “I think our family motto should be:
When life hands you lemons, make really
inappropriate jokes about them until it switches in your brain from sad to
funny.”
And so today I am a happy Mom. I am happy because I know that as I am sending
my daughter off to college, she is ready. She has a tip…she has learned
a lesson. She knows about the lemons. She
has been handed the lemons before and she knows they will come her way again. And she will be
ready for the lemons. And when the lemons do come, when she is handed more lemons, she will laugh. She will look the lemons square in the face,
and she will make really inappropriate jokes about them, and then, somewhere deep
in her brain, the sad will turn to funny. And she will laugh.
Mission Accomplished.
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