Celebrate your Mom

Happy Mother's day all you Mom's.

Saw a thing on my browser just now that said "Celebrate your Mom", "Share something you learned from your Mom."

Thought I would like to share a thought or two about my departed mom, and start a thread where others that wished, could do the same. (In the "privacy" of the select group of folk that frequent or pass through Scienceforum.)

My Mom was a Mathematician and Teacher, took me and my sister to Presbyterian Church, my father did not attend. She was eccentric, and became more so as she and my Dad diviorced, and she aged.

Still substitute taught and moved around throughout the States, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and "retired" between Charelston and Allentown in her later years. She spent some time as a "bag lady", slept on park benches, and lived in a shack with no heat and such. She went by her own rules.

What she taught me, among the Math and logic skills, and the normal Mom stuff, of how to dress yourself, and take care of yourself, and the others around you, and how to always be able to find something useful and fun to do, was a simple dinner table rule that I would like to share.

When the serving plate comes around for seconds, never take more than half.

With tears in my eyes, and a gentle sob, TAR

P.S. And if two people (as in my sister and I) had to share something, the one should divide the thing in half, and the other should have first choice of portion.