Self-Made Mom

I don’t like to talk too much about my family here, but I’m so proud of my mom that I think her recent comeback is worth a post.  See, my mom spent the better part of mine and my brother’s childhood working at home. She dabbled with her art, but turned down a job at Walt Disney animating cartoons because she wanted to settle down and raise a family.  She didn’t completely ignore her artistic calling, however, and started her own greeting card company out of our basement.  I remember vividly the piles and piles of mimeographed (before Xerox!) cards sitting in our basement waiting to be shipped to buyers.  She was talented, motivated, and folks, she’s SERIOUSLY FUNNY.

When she shuttered the doors to her card business in the late 1980s, I think she believed she may never return to her passion: making people laugh.  Yes, she still worked, owning a Southwestern-style art gallery, but there’s not much humor to be had in Navajo rugs.  But she always kept at her humor, tweaking it over the years.  The “hey Sara you’re 13 now humor book.” (It’s SOOO funny when you’re mom makes fun of your frizzy bangs. Ha ha.)  The witty one-liners she would come up with while we vacationed. To her, everything’s humorous, which can make childbirth and being a new mom much easier.

This year she realized that it was time to get back in the game. To start doing what she loves and knows best.  So she built a website and resurrected her defunct greeting card business.  Her humor has stood the test of time and I hope her newest endeavour is wildly successful.  She deserves it after raising my brother and I. It’s proof to me that anything’s possible at any time.  I love you, mom.

No go on and order one of her hilarious greeting cards at http://sendsomehumor.com (that’s for my mom and her non-web savvy friends.) Stat!

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