Today is the day when we celebrate Moms and give thanks. Without Moms none of us would be here. Thank You!
To all the moms, grandmoms, stepmoms and women who are trying to become moms, THANK YOU!
For all the things you do that are seen and unseen; for all the choices you make that are known or unknown; for all the times you showed up very visibly – or even with purpose, invisibly; for every sacrifice, tear, laugh, choice and correction; for every moment that created a memory and every moment that sits quietly in the background that no one knows about except you, THANK YOU.
We, the beneficiaries, cherish you.
Today is a day of great appreciation, recognition and thankfulness.
Happy Mom’s Day!
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Losing your Mother is something you never get over. So those of you whose Mothers are still with them, show them how much they mean to you.
I lost my mother in my 20s. She gave everything for us. In heaven, she’ll get to see her daughter-in-law, she never saw her lovely grandchildren she never saw, and they’ll fill her in on all the wonderful things she did not get to experience with them here on earth.
She sees 🥲
Oh yes, MTeresa!
Yes and Jesus defeated death for us so that we may have eternal life with Him AND our loved ones who we will love even deeper.
Thank God for giving us such a gift.
” ….So that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind who have no hope.” 1 Thessalonians 4:13
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Yes. And prayers, even after they have left this world, are effectual.
I have an angel looking over me. She’s my Mom and this is the first Mother’s Day without her. Even though she is no longer here I can feel her love guiding me.
So true. 44 years ago we buried my mom the day before Mother’s Day. Miss you and may she and all my grandmothers and mother-in-law RIP.
What about the abusive ones? The physical abuse, the verbal abuse, the sadistic mind games. I know it’s not a happy thought but I suppose we just ignore them and honor the ones that were good. That’s likely the best way to proceed in my opinion. I’m a realist so I always try look at all side of everything. That said, let’s wish the good mothers the very best for everything today!
Pray for the salvation of them all.
Yes, that’s the way. Thank you for your comment.
No, you don’t ignore what happened, and I don’t even know if one could forget that abuse. But it’s a choice to re-live it and carry it around with you day in and day out.
My in laws were extremely difficult to deal with and as they got older and it got so much worse. I could handle much of the barbs that came my way, but when it came to being critical of my husband (who didn’t deserve it), that was it for me. I cut off all ties with them. As much as I disliked what they did, I was the fortunate one and married the amazing son that they brought into the world. I can’t even say that they raised him because he pretty much raised himself. But there you have it.
It was extremely painful because I was taught to “honor Mother & Father” and I wasn’t able to do that towards them so there was a lot of guilt involved in cutting them out. What has been extremely helpful to me is talking to my Priest. I can’t change what happened, but I can pray for them and God knows they needed that. I think that’s when a huge burden seems to be lifted off my shoulders and I was able to let it go. The pain will always be there but I’ve been able to feel better. That’s the only thing that healed my wounds.
I know everyone’s situations are different. I pray that you can find your way to some sort of being at peace.
Mother is sleeping in this morning, much deservedly. She just completed the last leg of the marathon of seeing our youngest child graduate from college yesterday. Well deserved rest after decades of faithful nurturing of our children. God over-blessed me with such a wife to share life with. May God be the glory for his lavish love for us.
Too negative?
Without Moms none of us would be here.
Without Moms we would not be here.
Or not negative enough?
Without Moms none of us would not be here, not!
Enjoy your moms everyone.
And thank her even if you lost her already.
Thanks, Mom!
“It takes two”, or more…is all I can think today as I see the Mother’s Day greetings. Yes, I’m a mom, and I appreciate the kind thoughts and words from so many. But I also know that without SUPPORT from my husband, family, friends, and heck–society at large–I might have succumbed to the despair cult of modern “culture” which has frightened so many would-be mothers away from such a joyful calling. I pray for all mothers today; thankful for loving embraces with which they raised their children. And sorrowful for those moms who were fooled by the empty promises of abortion and/or sterility; life alone with only regrets for dead children, killed before they were born. I apologize, sincerely(!) for such a somber tone, but also know this: Sometimes ALL IT TAKES IS ONE WORD of ENCOURAGEMENT for a young woman to choose life, and embrace the joys (and challenges) of motherhood. Thank you to all those who offer encouragement!
Thank you so much for posting that.
And tie your shoes.
I can remember when my Mom taught me to tie my shoes with her big smile and warm hands guiding me.
Yes, making cappelletti with my Nana 💞❤️💓
👍 My wife growing up lived next door to her maternal Italian Grandparents from the 50s on through to the early 70s and that’s exactly what her grandmother looked like. She always wore a dress and would cook every day for all of them. My MIL worked and never cooked until she passed away! Great food and great memories!
My Grandma never wore pants. She changed into old split out low heels and hose with runs in them to go out and hoe the weeds in her huge garden. A saint in real life.
Rhubarb raisin pie and popcorn balls.
I’ll take this opportunity to wish my beautiful daughter the happiest of Mothers’ Days!
This is the first Mothers’ Day without her mom, my wife of 55 years, but her smile, her laughter, her moments of joy with her granddaughters and all the things that memories are made of, are with us every day and night.
Mothers’ Day is the ultimate celebration of life and the loving protection of the unborn, so Happy Mothers’ Day to the memory of my wife and my mom and to all the moms who are, who ever were, and who ever will be!
I’m remembering the birth of my first child 51 years ago this weekend. Some years his birthday lands on Mother’s day. I remember not knowing a darn thing about babies, but somehow I learned and we both survived my sometimes clumsy attempts. Thank God he was the best baby. I lost him 4 years ago. I miss him intensely, but have the promise of being with him in eternity. I am blessed to have a loving daughter and three wonderful granddaughters. May all Treeper mom’s have a blessed day.
Mary knows your heart. She experienced the full pain and grief of losing her son Jesus to death on the cross. During those couple of days before the resurrection she felt the worst despair any mother feels. You will have a blessed reunion with your son, though you will miss him terribly each day until that day comes. My prayers are for you and all mothers who’s children predeceased them.
Thank you for your sweet response.
God bless you for your thoughtfulness & compassion.
Lindy, this is my first Mothers’ Day without my wife of 55 years, but I take comfort in the fact that God gave her a long life, but there is no grief that compares to losing a child.
I hope it gives you a measure of comfort to remember that your son began his life in you, he came from you and he is still part of you with every heartbeat and every breath you take.
Thank you. Treepers are the best.
That’s comforting for all who need it, thank you & God bless!
Thank you God for giving me a loving mother, was a wonderful friend and was an example of a mother who loved the Lord. I miss everyday. I was greatly blessed.
Okay – darned dust on the keyboard 🥲
Amen.
“Home is where the mom is”
I took this photo 3 days before she passed. I’m just grateful I insisted on home hospice, so we were able to be with her at the time. (It was during the Spring 2020 chaos & cruel hospital policy nonsense.)
Yes, thank you Mom (in heaven) for putting up with me when I was such an incredible sassy and snarky teenager (God, was I awful or what!). Thank you for your love of Christ that you passed on to me, for your infinite wisdom, and by exemplifying what a good mother is. As much as I miss you, I know you are in the peaceful presence of our Lord. For that, I am at peace even in my saddest moments missing you 🥲
This is my family in the 1950’s. Same grill, same table, same table cloth, different dog. We had a black cocker spaniel. Life was simple 😎
We had boxers, then later my parents went to pugs, same basic look but, they could travel with them.
As a member of the US Coast Guard, the greatest rescue I was involved in was about a mother who was dying in front of her husband and her children. We worked so hard to save her it was covered in the national news, it involved my ship and a US Coast Guard helicopter. When we came back to port I took her husband and her children to a car that was going to take them to the hospital where she was recovering.
The big surprise, after I did that the wife of one of my crewmates told me that in a news interview, that mother had not just thanked the US Coast Guard for saving her, she had also mentioned my name (apparently she had asked the US Coast Guard about it) about things I had told her where the main subject was her children, and how that had mentally inspired her to fight death. And she had won.
Many years later, when the dictator Fidel Castro died the Cuban migrants in Miami celebrated it (they had come to the US to get their FREEDOM back, not like the ones from all over the planet who come here today for money, money, money). I was watching the celebration on my computer.
And like I am sure Sundance knows, GOD sometimes works in mysterious ways. All of a sudden, the camera shifted around and centered on the mother I had helped to save and her boys, who were now fully grown, and they were standing by both sides of her, celebrating with her. I remembered when I had helped to save her, in front of them and I am sure the mother and her boys were all remembering me. I was so happy I cried. GOD had made whoever was working the camera to shift it around so I could see the mother I had saved and her now fully grown children.
GOD knows that my 20 tears in the US Coast Guard was the best and most beautiful time of my life. Not only did I see some of the most beautiful places on this planet, I helped to save about 1,000 people.
I love GOD. Happy Mothers Day to all Treepers.
Mariel Boat Lift what a time here in FL.
Our country is blessed to have people like you.
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Thank you Mom, Happy Mothers Day, Love You.
Happy Mother Day to everybody, without our Moms we would not be here… .
I give Thanks and Praise to Almighty God for giving us this Life.
Amen.
Feliz Día de la Madre 💕❤️🙏.
Happy Mothers Day!!
Gracias Dios 🙏
Looking across the room I can see the photo of my Mom and both Grandmothers together at an event. It was an unposed moment and their facial expressions were just the way they were.
Mother’s Day blessings y’all. Mom’s requested her meal so I’m in cook mode. On the menu is ;amb roast: Marinated 24 hours in buttermilk, garlic, mint, black pepper, and Chinese five spice. Pesto green beans with black sesame seeds, onion, lemon juice and crumbled bacon. Mashed potatoes with a buttermilk/Red eye gravy and cream horns.
I saw this a couple days ago and wanted to share Mike Rowe’s interview with his mom. His mom reminds me of my grandmother. My grandfather’s sister (my great aunt Ione) was the “author” who wrote well into her late 90’s for the Beaverton OR historical museum).
Enjoy!
This isn’t just any Mother’s Day song… Lenny Kravitz.
Retired Magistrate here: This is the fourth Mother’s Day I have had the privilege of having a renewed relationship with my daughter who I gave up for adoption 58 years ago. Being a single mother back then was extremely frowned upon and my parents, who were trying to do the right thing, put me in a home for unwed mothers run by the Quakers.
It should have been a place where the love of CHRIST was demonstrated; unfortunately it was not. I heard all about the wrath of GOD and how I was going to hell because I had gotten pregnant out of wedlock, but no one told me how not to go to hell. It was a terrible experience and convinced me not to have any more children, and I didn’t.
So after many years my brother, while he was dying from ALS and he could still talk, convinced me to try one more time to have some sort of relationship with my daughter. So I reached out one more time and she finally understood why I did what I did. It was shaky at first, trying to bridge that gap, but we kept trying and succeeded and before my brother died last year he knew that my daughter and I had a relationship again.
So I thank GOD and all the glory goes to HIM for this renewed relationship.
Mother’s Day Blessings Marcia. Very happy for you and for your daughter.
So happy you did that. Many young women of our generation suffered that indignity. God bless you.
What a beautiful story of sacrifice on your part, wisdom on your brother’s part and acceptance on the part of the daughter you reconnected with after so many years. All praise and honor to the Lord for His wonders (even though we can never understand his timing). His grace is everlasting…..
Happy Mother’s Day, Marcia. It is wonderful that you have your daughter in your life.
So happy for you, Marcia! 💞
Marcia,
You just made my whole Mother’s Day complete. I have 3 children and 6 grandchildren but my greatest joy today was your post keeping it real.
Reading this I realized that our struggles are all unique but at the same time, all struggles are comparable. Because hurt, pain, loss, regrets, all ours individually but collectively are the will of GOD.
It’s a long road and so much in life has us believing we are, ourselves, failing, lost or lacking but not so. No Motherhood is perfect and I tried in vain and ignorance to make up for the fact I lost my Mother to mental illness at 8 yrs old. A lifetime of mental exhaustion but you suffered equally, different but suffered.
And we are on the other side now. Amen to that.
We fight until our last living breath for redemption, forgiveness and eternity with Christ.
Life is real, ugly and hard. People are hateful, rotten and cruel but not everyone and not all the time.
Hope springs eternal.
It is six years today that my mother left this earth, which was also Mother’s Day.
May God give comfort to you today and every day.
She lives in your heart.
Give yourself a hug.
“She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.” – Proverbs 31:25,28
Happy Mother’s Day to all of our Treehouse moms, the best and most based mothers in the world! 🙂
J
Happy Mother’s Day to Menagerie and all the mothers at the treehouse.
Ditto!
And to you as well. Thank you for thinking of us!
Oh my goodness! I am so glad to see your response. I have been wondering where you are and was afraid you had left the Treehouse. I was going to inquire as such. Have missed you and your contributions, dear Lady. Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day! Glad to see you❤️
Lost my mom a few years ago. She died a few months prior to her 100th birthday.
A Rosie Riveter during WWII — she married late — and lived an amazing life even before becoming a mom.
Everyone loved her.
She was a patriot with a strong connection to her church, community and country.
I had ex boyfriends who went to visit her when any connection to me no longer mattered. Such a powerhouse in a tiny frame.
God bless you, Mom.
I feel your love every day!
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Thank you so much.
Happy Mother’s Day to all you terrific moms out there.
I am one of those fortunate enough to go have breakfast with my mom this morning. 😘
On Mother’s Day, my mother would always say thanks, and then remark that there should be a Kid’s Day. She was always thinking of others. Whenever I would call her, she would start out by explaining what all of my siblings and their families were doing.
My mother was one of 13 children, raised during the Depression in South Dakota. She went to work right after high school, to help out with the younger siblings. Her father was fired from his job as high school principal for standing up to the KKK, which was active at that time. The family lost their home to foreclosure, and my grandfather got a job doing road paving and manual labor. Times were tough.
After 5 years, my mother finally started college, graduating in 1945. She moved to California, met and married my father, had 7 children in 10 years, including 6 boys in a row, then my wonderful sister. My 3 older brothers and I were one year apart, and were in high school at the same time.
In her 50’s, my mother went back to college, at UC-Santa Cruz, and obtained her teaching credential. This was the 1970s, with kids with long hair skateboarding, riding bicycles and hitch-hiking. Then there was our mother, driving over the hill in our old yellow Cadillac, getting back home in time to cook dinner.
She then started working as a substitute elementary school teacher, in several of the “rougher” school districts. She did this for over 20 years, until she was 79 years old. She stopped working only when she was diagnosed with cancer, and had to have treatment.
For six months, my mother did not drive. Then, one day, she asked me to go with her while she practiced her driving. I did, she got back in the groove, and drove until her death at age 85. I was just returning the favor, since she taught all of her children how to drive. As soon as we turned 16, we got our driver’s licenses. Then, we could take turns driving our father to the train station in the morning, or picking him up in the evening.
People would often marvel that she would take jobs in the tougher schools. She would laugh, and say, they don’t know what tough is. Hard work runs in the family. Her father was a school superintendent until he finally retired, at age 88.
I miss my mother every day, and count myself blessed to have been so lucky to have her for a mother.
God Bless all you wonderful mothers out there!
Wow – what a beautiful family history!
Too few Americans are aware that early advocates of Mother’s Day in the United States originally envisioned it as a day of peace, to honor and support mothers who lost sons and husbands to the carnage of the Civil War.
FLOTUS & POTUS hosted Angel Mothers & Gold Star Mothers in the White House for the Mothers’ Day remembrance …
{ First Lady Melania Stuns in Pastel Pink as She Honors Military Mothers at the White House (VIDEO) }
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“… The celebration brought together military mothers from across the nation representing all six branches of service. Mrs. Trump’s remarks demonstrated a deep appreciation for military mothers’ boundless love, quiet power, and unwavering commitment to both country and family—values emulated in the First Lady’s initiatives focused on child well-being and education….”
Happy Mothers Day!!
Happy Mother’s Day to my mom.
The most unselfish person I’ve ever known.
A wonderful, smart, tough, loyal & humble, God fearing woman.
I will never stop trying to make her proud of me.
Life lessons from Mom:
Be kind, to all people and God’s creatures.
Never talk bad about someone, we don’t know their burdens.
Be grateful for everything, people are lonely and starving.
Take time to listen to the birds and enjoy God’s gifts.
Keep going no matter what.
After my sister died at 37, Mom kept going, didn’t get bitter and kept helping others.
I can’t wait to see her again, where all sin will be gone and no sorrows.
I love you Mom and miss you every day. Im going to keep going to honor what you taught me.
Thank you Sundance for giving us a safe place to share our love with fellow kind souls.
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To all the moms, grandmoms, stepmoms and women who are trying to become moms, THANK YOU!
I agree wholeheartedly! God bless all mothers and thank you all!
I went to her final resting place to see my mom today like I often do because I miss her terribly. Even after a dozen years…
Thank you SD for the heartfelt words you posted today. I’m always unable to speak in the moment but I was able to read them aloud.
God bless you for all that say & do. God bless all of the wonderful treehouse moms for their kindness, their compassion & their contributions to our camaraderie.
Nothing like losing a Mom.
Take care.
God blessed me greatly the day he gave me my beautiful mother. Though in Heaven 31 years, she still guides me everyday.
I believe My Mom is my GUARDIAN ANGEL. She guides and protects me. She was a mother of 10 children. She died of an aneurism at 48. It was a horrible mistake made at an awful hospital. But she was and is my inner strength to this day.