Reflections of a mother.

[Matilda]

I found this piece on an Australian Catholic website, and loved it.

So for all those mothers of boys of whatever age, read and enjoy:

http://www.madonnamagazine.com.au/articles/mayjune09/hogan.html

Excerpt:

"We are here today to celebrate our motherhood – those times of worry, perhaps, because our sons were finding it tough academically or hard to fit in or were suffering ill health. We are here to celebrate our memories of boys of all shapes and sizes and colours jostling their way through sporting matches, debates, musical performances, drama productions and just exuding the exuberance of being young and alive. We remember triumphant boys and disappointed boys, cocky boys and boys plagued with self-doubt, cheeky boys and charming boys, noisy boys and quiet reflective boys, smelly boys, hairy boys, scary boys, hungry boys, boys who lost things, boys who were focused and organised and boys who dawdled and dreamed, boys with a date, boys with no date, boys who didn’t know whether or not they wanted a date, boys who confided in you and boys who locked you out with a grunt, boys who gave you the best hugs and boys who pretended they were not even related to you."


I think my son, now aged 22, has been (and sometimes still is) all those things at one time or another.