Mother's Day Memories

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For several years my family would pack up the car and we would head north to a lake in Canada to spend a week during the summer.  It was typically very warm there during the summer months but the lake was fed by mountain snow run off and so the water was always very cold no matter how hot it was outside.

One particularly hot summer day my mom decided she wanted to waterski back to the cabin.  My dad was in the boat and suggested we could go back to the cabin first so that she could change into her bathing suit.  NOPE (she said) if she went back to the cabin should would talk herself out of it.  She put on a life jacket and jumped into the very cold mountain lake in her mini skirt and teeshirt.  "Hit It!" she yelled from behind the boat and we took off with her in tow, in her mini skirt somehow sticking to her body like a hollywood costume dept. had set her up with a wardrobe for this shot.  We laughed all the way back to the cabin.  She let go of the ski line as we passed the dock and just slid the rest of the way across the water to the dock.  She was my Rock Star that day.  My mom may have been really old (she was in her 30's) but she still knew how to have fun.  Alot of fun!

This month we are having a Mother's Day Memories contest.  The winner is not determined by the best entry - it is a random drawing - just leave your favorite memory for your chance to win your own copy of Lost in Suburbia: a Momoir by our friend Tracy Beckerman.


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  1. UnknownMay 3, 2013 at 11:14 PM

    My best memory of my mom is when I gave birth to my son 17 days ago. She was their holding my hand through it all. Colton was born at 33.3 weeks and is still in the nicu.

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