Stories of Amazing Moms
I have been all sorts of a mom. A stepmother, a birth mother, a mother-in-law, a foster mother. I have helped care for children that belong to another mom, because no kid can have too many people to love them. But I have never been the kind of mom written about in “Remarkable Caregiving, the Care of Family and Friends.”
In “Remarkable Caregiving”, my next book, you can find six stories of remarkable caregivers, whose stories will inspire and teach you. Two of the stories highlight moms of kids with unique challenges. Buddy was born with a variety of disabilities. His mom Carol went to extraordinary lengths to care for Buddy, finding unique ways to address his many physical, learning, and emotional needs. She challenged the legal system, the schools, and the medical community to provide the best care for her amazing son. Carol and her husband also found ways to treat their daughter as special and unique.
You will also meet Diana, another mom, who poured her heart into her son with Down syndrome. You will meet her son Tyler, who grew to adulthood, presenting new questions about his future. Diana not only poured herself into raising her son, but she and her husband found the meaning of suffering by involving others in the Down syndrome community.
“Remarkable Caregiving” will be available from https://nancyrpoland.com in June 2021. It will be released to the public in November 2021. If you are interested in hearing more about “Remarkable Caregiving” at [email protected].
Enjoy this poem with from “Dancing With Lewy: A Father Daughter Dance Before and After Lewy Body Dementia Came to Live With Us.”
Oh, mother dear, the years have passed,
And so gray has grown your hair.
Seems like yesterday, I was just a child,
And you so young and fair.
Time goes so fast, and now I’m grown,
And lines caress your face.
The years have surely swept us on,
So swift has been the race.
You dressed me in such pretty things,
And set curls in my hair.
But now you’ve grown older,
And it’s my turn to show I care.
It seems so clumsy and hard at times,
To pay you all I owe.
Please forgive me, mother dear,
If how, I do not know.
Our blessed heavenly Father
has prepared a reward for you.
He has given your grandchildren
a mother who will do
The same pleasant and joyful things for them,
As a gift from us to you.
Written by Lee Eggerud
If you are a mom, if you have or had a mom or grandma who meant a lot to you, or a substitute mom, celebrate moms with me this mother’s day.
Next month we will celebrate dads!