This is my tribute to me mamman and mothers in general.

Try googling the word mother and u can come across all types of fun websites, definitions and campaigns and reminders for the upcoming mothers day on Sunday May 13th '07.

 

Recently it was surveyed that stay at home mom work about 90 hrs at the minimum per week and their annual salary according to salary.com was set to from $ 138000 and above. To this let me add a quote by Mildred B. Vermont Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. 

 

Cough wake up people, time to go shop for presents, cards , flowers and practice that special song, hugs and rehearse those line u wanna say to this one individual that would express your gratitude to this selfless being.

Mothers do come in all shapes, colors and forms and they are all selfless and giving to the core.

Almost choked, in a good way, upon reading the definition that wiki had to offer on mom. Wiki defines mother as "A mother is the natural or social female parent of an offspring. In the case of a mammal such as an human , the mother gestates her child (called first an embryo , then a fetus ) in the womb from conception until the fetus is sufficiently well-developed to be born. The mother then goes into labor and gives birth . Once the child is born, the mother produces milk , a process called lactation , to feed the child."

Well this reminded me of all the corny songs and movies that ever existed ranging from "dhoodh ka karz" and el at. You can say mom in a zillion different ways but it will all mean the same, the one being responsible for our birth, for nurturing us and giving us all that she has.

My first recollection of my mom is typically her draped in a cotton saree, with a towel wrapped around her tresses, smelling like sandalwood or cuticura powder serving me coffee in the morning.

She was as selfless as other moms are and basically lived all her life in anonymity, dedicating it to our family. I often wondered why she had developed a sudden penchant for wearing cotton saris when she looked really pretty in chiffon. Now that I am older I am kinda guessing it was not as she had put it to brave the sunny weather it was because cotton saris generally ranged from 100 to 300 bucks in those days that meant more could be spent on her daughters. Although I gulped down all that she offered to me in the name of food and excuses, my little one is much smarter and often catches me when I do try to do the same now.

In our days the streets of the neighborhood was filled with stray dogs, whom the kids named unbiased of gender Anthony, Brownie, Lassie, Blackie and Jackie. Anthony or Anta, don't go by the name she was a female, gave birth to 6 or 7 pups every breeding season of which a couple survived. she would often carry the pieces of food we put in front of her back to her kids, feeding them every bit of morsel. We had to often separate the pups from her so that she could eat a few bites herself.

Last night ABC news aired another awesome story of a mother, whose insides are squished because of the size of her baby and often starves because there is not enough room in her womb for food. The female kiwi bird is a flightless bird and really as selfless as a mother can get and indeed an awesome selfless being. The egg can grow up to 10 times the size of a chickens egg and covers the inside of the Kiwi bird from the neck to the rear.

Of course the insides are squished and this bird starves as there is no room for food. Carrying the egg is simply one thing but laying it is another tremendous effort. The female kiwi has the largest egg, in proportion to its body size, of any bird in the world (except possibly for the hummingbird). Kiwi are about the same size as chickens, but their eggs are almost as big as those of ostriches.

When the young hatches it is not fed by the adult, but survives on a large reserve of yolk in its belly from the egg. Gaining strength, the chick remains in the nest for six to ten days before it starts to go out with the male Kiwi bird hunting for food.

Although the female penguin lays the egg, it is the male counterpart that stays with the egg when the female goes in search of food. March of the penguins, an academy award winning documentary,  was an emotional movie that does a 360 around the penguins life and particularly focuses on how couples take on a joint responsibility in bringing up the young ones.

 

This brings into focus all the male counterparts that take on the role of a mother too.

 

So here I go leaving you to read a few quotes, corny or not, on a being that was aptly named mom, amma, mama, ma, mamman for a reason. The alphabet "M" being common in all.

 

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan

 

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.  ~Jane Sellman

 

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before.  The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new.  ~Rajneesh

 

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.  ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)

 

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.  ~Abraham Lincoln

 

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.  ~Pearl S. Buck

 

Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.  ~Ambrose Bierce

 

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness.  It's the men who are discriminated against.  They can't bear children.  And no one's likely to do anything about that.  ~Golda Meir

 

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes