When we were growing up, my mother would call us by a variety of names – each other\u2019s mostly, but sometimes her own brother and sister\u2019s names, though I was never lucky enough to be on the receiving end of that.\u00a0 That honor mostly went to my younger brother and sister. \u00a0Being the middle child, more often than not, I got called the dog\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
And on my end, I would pilot my\u00a0own names for Mom \u2013 mostly all were from literary works since we were a reading-ist kind of family.<\/p>\n
Fresh off The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew<\/em> series, Mom became Mamsie Dear.<\/p>\n As I\u00a0lived the excitement of the Civil War years right along with the March Sisters in \u201cLittle Women\u201d Mom became Marmie.<\/p>\n And after plowing through all the Little House on the Prairie<\/em> books, there was even that failed attempt to start up a whole \u201cMa\u201d thing.<\/p>\n But nuthin doin\u2019 on that. I think she mistook what I had intended as a\u00a0plucky, pioneer \u201cMa\u201d for more of a Vinny Barbarino, wise-cracking New York \u201cMa\u201d so she nixed that right outta the gate.<\/p>\n Where I\u2019m really going with all of this is:<\/p>\n Hi Mom! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thank you for being the best Mamsie Dear\/Marmie\/Ma ever. All you\u2019ve been and done for me I can only hope to be and do for my own children.\u00a0 (Except that part about being so sharp when they try to call me \u201cMa.\u201d\u00a0 I won\u2019t do that \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Happy Mother\u2019s Day! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Love, <\/em><\/strong>Lady<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When we were growing up, my mother would call us by a variety of names – each other\u2019s mostly, but sometimes her own brother and sister\u2019s names, though I was never lucky enough to be on the receiving end of that.\u00a0 That honor mostly went to my younger brother and sister. \u00a0Being the middle child, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}