Daily Archives: May 10, 2008

Mother’s Day cinquain

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For my mom’s Mother’s Day gift this year I went the handmade route. I made her a cute little hanging plaque with a poem I wrote just for her. Unfortunately I forgot to scan it before I gave it (sorry!). In case you don’t know, a cinquain is a 5 line poem that goes like this: one word (noun)two adjectives about the nounthree verbs about the nouna four-word phrase about the nounanother word for the … read on, my friend…

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The sisterhood of motherhood

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Today I had a lovely luncheon with the mothers in my family. The invited them over for a yummy lunch and we had a wonderful time. As I sat aound the table with my mom, grandmother, mother-in-law and sister-in-law I had to smile. We are all unique women. My sister-in-law is Hispanic. My grandmother is 87 and from a very different generation. My mother-in-law only had one child. My mother is a widow. If we were … read on, my friend…

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