Thanks for your compliment. It was a challenging post to write, I’ll be honest. Rather than reflecting on my own mother (who was less than stellar in any of these areas), I had to look inside, at my own parenting. Not to sound prideful, but in having a “negative role model”, I learned (by contradiction) how to excel at “mothering.” 

Now, I may be a bit…overzealous…in loving my sons (is there such a thing?), I always done my best to live up to the ideals I wrote about – something my mother was never able to do. We are all teachers, even dear Rosemary!