Personal Childhood Web: Mom

     My mother is one person in my personal childhood web. My mom was a very accepting open minded person who was like a gracious servant to her 12 children. Our family said the rosary every night. I remember kneeling next to my mom when I was five and feeling very satisfied when I knew all the prayers. Today, my mom is like a saint that we all go to to ask her to pray for our many worries or desires. She has a really bad memory now, but I can still make her laugh. I remember walking everywhere with her as a child because she was afraid to drive. We walked to daily mass, to the grocery store when my dad was sailing around the world on oil tankers, and to the bus stop. I remember my mom listening to me talk on these walks and sometimes getting tired of my incessant talking about things that I found so important just as you may be getting tired of reading my long posts.