Why Mother’s Cry

It’s that time again to honor those wonderful women who gave us life. It’s been nearly seventeen years since my precious mother died and never do I come to this time of year that I don’t get a big lump in my throat and a tear or two in my eye. But, as I’ve shared before, the blessing of being a mother helps tremendously to ease the pain.

The only recipes this week will be for easy delicious sweets that the kids can make and serve Mom after they have cooked dinner for her or taken her out to her favorite restaurant to eat. Get her off her feet for the day and treat her like the queen she is. By reading this sweet message a friend shared with me, hopefully you will better understand just why she cries. It’s the best explanation I’ve ever heard. I dedicate this column to two special mothers and friends of mine I’ll call “L” and “D” . . . you know who you are.

Why Mother’s Cry

A little boy asked his mother, “Why are you crying?” “Because I’m a woman,” she told him. “I don’t understand,” he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, “And you never will.”

Later the little boy asked his father, “Why does Mother seem to cry for no reason?”

”All women cry for no reason,” was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.

Finally he put in a call to God. When God answered, he asked, “God, why do women cry so easily?”

God said: “When I made the woman, she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort. I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.

I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.

I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart. I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him without giving up.

And finally, I gave†her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed. You see my son,’ said God, ‘the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides.”

 

Cherry Squares

1/2 cup butter
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cup sugar
2 cup flour
4 eggs
1 can cherry pie filling

Grease pan and flour. Cream butter and sugar; add eggs, vanilla and flour.

Spread half of dough on jelly roll pan. Spread cherry filling on top.

Cover with remaining dough mixture. Bake for 30 min. 375_ F. Cut into squares.

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Easy Lemonade Pie

1 small can frozen lemonade (pink or
yellow) do not thaw
1 can Eagle Brand milk
9 oz. Cool Whip
1 graham cracker crumb crust
Strawberries and coconut optional

Mix first three ingredients. Pour into prepared pie crust. Chill at least 2 hours. Garnish with strawberries or coconut, if desired. Add a few drops of yellow or red food coloring, if desired, to make color brighter.

 

Don’t forget your copy of “Lovin’ Spoonful . . . Cooking With Family and Friends,” a compilation of nearly 400 mouth-watering recipes by Sherrie Norris. It is available at all locations of High Country Media – Boone, Banner Elk, West Jefferson, and at The Avery Journal in Newland, all Boone Drugs, Black Bear Books, Trailway Laundry, Wilcox Emporium,( top level, booth 312-W,) and beginning June 15 at Mast Store locations.