A MILLION DOLLAR MOM

We just celebrated mother's day yesterday.  I salute all the moms all over the world!  There is no doubt that your mom, my mom is always the best mom one can ever have.  Seldom will you see that a child would fail to recognize that reality..  there may be moms out there who by circumstance have neglected there children, but these are rare instances.

This million dollar mom I am talking about is what you will see from any ordinary mom around, but she has an exceptional character.  She is the type who when ever she is around you would feel that the world is perfectly alright even though it is in turmoil.  You will hear bombs pounding in the neighborhood in times of war, but for as long as you are with this mom, it is alright. 

Her husband is fully secure and confident in all his undertakings because of her presence.  The husband may be there to protect the family and provide for their needs, but he gets his strength from his wife, who is the mother of their children.  He is proud of his accomplishments even if he has not because this mother makes him feel so. 

She speaks well of her husband even in spite of his shortcomings.  We see all the mistakes any husband can commit, some wives would tend to curse their husbands because of these shortfalls.  You will see a some wives bad mouthing their husbands because he couldn't come up with how husbands should be. Some would find fault on him thinking maybe that when she tells him what he lacks or what he is not capable of doing would probably ring a bell and help him to improve.  I see some would even ridicule them in front of many people just to send the message across. Wrong! 

But this mother I am referring to doesn't have these traits.  She instead talks well about her husband.  Finds positive traits she could find in him and dwell on it and hopes to develop it more.  She kills the negative traits by bombarding with praises he finds in every little achievement he makes.  Husbands are like little children too, so to speak. They are appreciation gluttons! He builds her husband up.  Her friends knows that her husband is the best because that is what she tells them even if her husbands is otherwise.  

Household job is the most tiring of all.  The husband usually brings home the money, but it is the mother who cooks the bacon.  The husband does the hunting while the mother turns the hunted to food. The mother is tasked to prepare the food at dawn and is usually the last person to lie in bed at night to fix all the days mess.  She washes the dishes, the clothes and irons them, cleans the house, prepares the kids for school and sends off her husband to work.  Some mothers would even prepare the clothes for their husbands before he wears them to work.  She is the all time fix in the house.    

she is the all time CEO in the house.  The household is likened to a corporation where the mother is the chief executive.  Her word is everybody's command.  You can't small any mother who claims to be "just" a simple housewife because managing the house is the most taxing.  You will have to allocate the fix budget for utilities and food, salaries and wages if there are hired servants.  Try to match that and see if there is any man who can cope up with the pressure...and the budget is fixed with no rooms for additional loans like any corporation CEO would if he finds trouble. 

You will notice during wedding ceremonies when the husband symbolically turns over the wealth to the wife is  literally followed by some couples, and this mother I am talking about here is trustworthy enough to be able to manage the family finances well.  She invests their resources wisely that sometime the husband is just surprised to ask where the extra money is coming from.  

Some mothers even have a day work just to make both ends meet.  Some would even do odd jobs to add income for the family.  This is usually true when the husbands can only bring home meager income for the family. Despite all these endeavors, she still manages to take care of the family's needs effectively, not to mention the husband's needs if that is still part of the deal. 

Aside from her being the all fix solution for the family, the mother is often the range expander for the family.  A range expander is a device used to extend the wireless internet connection to reach even farther.  You can just imagine how far the family could go without the mother in the house, not an inch farther, I tell you.  

This mother is the source of wisdom in the house.  Her words are full of encouragement.  We often say that the husbands think more of rationality while the wife is more often emotional before they rationalize things.  It is true and it is even effective.  Specially if the mother is God fearing, you can always expect that her words are often an edification.  It is often said that from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.  I would not like to think couple would be discussing rationally and exchange arguments like those legislators in congress wanting to win who among them has the more logical proposition 

A woman maybe capable of multitasking everything, but until she becomes a mother will she only realize the true fulfillment of being a real woman.  A lady may be valued a thousand dollars by a bachelor, but by golly, this woman I am talking about is my wife!