Mother's Day

Its Mother’s Day once again and that means I get to make a cameo on Tina’s blog to express just how much she means to us here in the Soric household.  It has been a year in which she continued to amaze with her devotion to our children, resilience to changing living situations and her tireless generosity.    Never have I seen someone able to be up before the sun, selflessly caring for and teaching her children, managing the bustling calendar for her family, leading an organization of her peers, building a new home, and being the last Soric to rest her head on a pillow before she does it all over again the next day.  Oh, and did I mention she can keep a smile on her face while doing all of those things?  There were so many moments this year where it would have been perfectly acceptable for most normal people to collapse in a heap from pure exhaustion but she kept her head up, kept our family together and kept her sense of humor, as well.  

Being a mother is a job that requires dedication on an incredible level, even more so when you devote yourself to it full-time.  In most other professions, that kind of selflessness gets you awards, accolades and promotions.  Instead, we choose to honor the mothers around us each year on Mother’s Day with brunches and homemade cards.  We try to cram a year’s worth of gratitude into a single day and it never quite feels like we’ve fully expressed how thankful we are for the moms in our lives.  We all know they deserve the world for what they do for us and we could never have gotten to where we are today without them.  Tina, I know that no amount of words can adequately express it, but know that you mean the world to the rest of us.  You are the foundation upon which this family is built and the driving force behind what makes us better people.  Thank you for everything.

Mate