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    A Cup of Comfort Stories for Mothers: Celebrating the women who gave us everything
    A Cup of Comfort Stories for Mothers: Celebrating the women who gave us everything
    A Cup of Comfort Stories for Mothers: Celebrating the women who gave us everything
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    A Cup of Comfort Stories for Mothers: Celebrating the women who gave us everything

    By Colleen Sell

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    Is your mom your best friend? Or your biggest fan? Your loyal confidante? No matter what she means to you, Mom is always the one you turn to when you need a shoulder to cry on, sound advice, and unconditional love. And there's no better way to pay tribute to the most exceptional woman in your life than with A Cup of Comfort Stories for Mothers. Inside, you'll meet three stories that celebrate the mother-child bond by sharing heartfelt and personal stories.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateJan 15, 2012
    ISBN9781440537363
    A Cup of Comfort Stories for Mothers: Celebrating the women who gave us everything
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    Colleen Sell

    Colleen Sell has compiled and edited more than twenty-five volumes of the Cup of Comfort book series. A veteran writer and editor, she has authored, ghostwritten, or edited more than a hundred books and served as editor-in-chief of two award-winning magazines.

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      A Cup of Comfort Stories for Mothers - Colleen Sell

      A Cup of Comfort® Stories for Mothers cover

      A Cup of Comfort® Stories for Mothers

      Celebrating the women who gave us everything

      Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

      Avon, Massachusetts

      Contents

      Introduction

      The Mominator

      Here Beside Me

      Keeper of the Sash

      Also Available

      Copyright Page

      Introduction

      As it turns out, there are many ways to be a good mother. The important thing is to do your very best, to do it with love, and to enjoy it. The personal true stories in A Cup of Comfort® Stories for Mothers celebrate the joy of motherhood and honor this most challenging, fulfilling, and venerable profession.

      The Mominator

      By Andrea Harris

      As a teenager, I found a strange picture of myself in a box of stray family memories. The photo was black and white, and I was standing outside in a short dress, no shoes on, wind blowing my blond waves. I looked to be about ten years old and was wearing the expression I saved for those special occasions when someone insisted I wear a dress and then had the nerve to take my picture. I took the photo to my mom and asked when and where it was taken.

      Let’s see, she said. I was probably about ten years old, and I was standing in the big field on your grandparents’ farm.

      She laughed at the horror on my face. Don’t look so panicked, she told me. It’s inevitable that you would look at least a little like me, your biological mother.

      She was right. I was panicking. At that point in my life, I prided myself on being as different from my mother as was humanly possible. Different styles. Different speech. Different beliefs. Different woman. She always seemed worried about what other people thought, and I prided myself on not caring at all what other people thought. My father

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