A Cup of Comfort Stories for Mothers: Celebrating the women who gave us everything
By Colleen Sell
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Colleen Sell
Colleen Sell has compiled and edited more than twenty-five volumes of the Cup of Comfort book series. A veteran writer and editor, she has authored, ghostwritten, or edited more than a hundred books and served as editor-in-chief of two award-winning magazines.
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A Cup of Comfort Stories for Mothers - Colleen Sell
A Cup of Comfort® Stories for Mothers
Celebrating the women who gave us everything
Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Avon, Massachusetts
Contents
Introduction
The Mominator
Here Beside Me
Keeper of the Sash
Also Available
Copyright Page
Introduction
As it turns out, there are many ways to be a good mother. The important thing is to do your very best, to do it with love, and to enjoy it. The personal true stories in A Cup of Comfort® Stories for Mothers celebrate the joy of motherhood and honor this most challenging, fulfilling, and venerable profession.
The Mominator
By Andrea Harris
As a teenager, I found a strange picture of myself in a box of stray family memories. The photo was black and white, and I was standing outside in a short dress, no shoes on, wind blowing my blond waves. I looked to be about ten years old and was wearing the expression I saved for those special occasions when someone insisted I wear a dress and then had the nerve to take my picture. I took the photo to my mom and asked when and where it was taken.
Let’s see,
she said. I was probably about ten years old, and I was standing in the big field on your grandparents’ farm.
She laughed at the horror on my face. Don’t look so panicked,
she told me. It’s inevitable that you would look at least a little like me, your biological mother.
She was right. I was panicking. At that point in my life, I prided myself on being as different from my mother as was humanly possible. Different styles. Different speech. Different beliefs. Different woman. She always seemed worried about what other people thought, and I prided myself on not caring at all what other people thought. My father