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| I don't have the best relationship with my mother .... strained relationship or not I do love my mother ... no matter how many times she says stuff like:"Have you gained weight?""Have you lost weight?You need to eating something!""Whoa!I hope you didn't let you boyfriend see you without make-up!"(I let him see me at my absolute worse ... duh, mom!!)"Don't you think your hair should be shorter?""You know, they say as you get older your hair color should go lighter."And this doozie from a couple of days ago ..."You should NOT be talking to Jesse!He's married!Ugh!You're just like your father!!(WTF???)Jesse is a guy friend that has been my friend since we were tots ... his mom and my mom used to be very good friends but they drifted apart.I tell her about about his mom for that reason but I digress. |
| I tell her about about his mom for that reason but I digress.Though I have minimal contact with her for my own sanity she taught me a lot AND I know she loves me ... yeah, she can be thoughtless and can give any Jewish mother a good run for her money in the guilt department but my mom, Minnie, is a remarkable woman!To cover just how remarkable she is you'd have to know all that she has survived and overcome ...She had to endure the most absolute rejection as a child ... from her own mother ... she was given away and never really understood why ... in her child mind she thought it was because of her skin color.?*sniffles* ? She was passed around from abusive home to abusive home (relatives of her mother's no less) with promises of better tomorrows only to have her little innocent hopes dashed again and again ....Then one day another aunt of hers came to visit the home she was in and witnessed her horror ... basically being treated like a slave ..denied her childhood, an education, not even allowed meals ..she ate the scraps left behind on the plates ... allowed to eat those before she washed the dishes.Thank God there was ONE decent person in lil Minnie's family.This stranger .. |
| This stranger ..her aunt ... she cooked up an elaborate scheme to help my mom escape her nightmare ... lil Minnie had fallen for these kinds of promises before only for her treatment to get worse ... she was desperately lonely and starved for affection so despite her tremendous fear and suspicions she accepted the stranger's offer of money for a train ticket and followed her explicit directions to run away to the next town where the train station was BUT .... she would have to go alone!This plot was scary for her aunt too ..it would mean she was severing her ties with family for rescuing this good for nothing kid.Lil Minnie did it ..she ran away in the middle of the night ... left South Texas forever and moved to Galveston, Tx.That aunt of my mom's lived up to her promises.She bought my mom decent clothes and raised her along side her own children.My mom never had real siblings that she knew of so the love and acceptance she received from her cousins and aunt was a dream come true to her.She never went to school because they were scared my mom might be taken away. |
| She never went to school because they were scared my mom might be taken away.Her cousins and she all had to work in the family restaurant/cantina.They all worked along side each other, worked very hard and were all rewarded for their work.This little story about my mom does not even begin to cover what all else she had to survive and endure as a woman but it does give you an inkling of how her strength was born ... a strength that to this day I am in awe of and I try to emulate.Through that and more, a mom was born.Dios te lo page, Momma.I thank God for you.Songs that remind me of Momma ...To Minnie, all you mothers out there and to you very special Dads that do double duty ....Thanks for reading!Love,Cinnababy |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 July 2008 )
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