Mother's Day

Mothers are special. They just shower abundant love. Right from protecting their kids to showing them the right direction. Those were the times when mothers were mostly housewives. Only a handful of mothers worked. Particularly in fields like medical professions, lecturers, engineers were just a few couples. Time has changed now and mothers are equally professionals as fathers. While mothers as housewives were totally dedicated to home, children, and the rest of the activities at home. Professional mothers had to either divide their time or had help in the whole affair.

In the present scenario, it is for both parents to raise their children sharing the work and home management.

While the world celebrates Mother's Day on a particular day, in fact, every day is mother's day because every day at the beginning as a child, he or she learns something new from the mother. She dances and sings for her. Sings lullabies. Mother takes care, prepares food and feeds the child, prepares their lunch boxes, accompanies the child to the bus stop, waits for her child to return from school, serves lunch and then she eats. She even sees to it that her child is well-prepared for her class the next day, checking all homework done. No doubt fathers also take care but the mothers are always a step ahead.

Being the youngest at home, I was a little pampered but that didn't mean I had taken any advantages. My mother was quite strict compared to my father. We all sisters and brother were actually not very free with her. But she was well conversant with us for all our requirements. Though we were quite afraid to ask her, but mother's love would just diminish any fright therein. She herself was very quiet and reserved. As we grew up we were getting closely in conversation with her.

Her early morning tea was something that I always looked forward to every day. My morning started off well with the morning tea she prepared. Her specialties lie in her preparation.

She would prepare handmade mixtures, namkeens, rose cakes, different types of sweets, like besan barfi, kalakand, and my favorite was the kala mitha made from atta and khoya. These are a few to name from her delicacies.

However, as one grows older and they become closer and freer with their parents, mothers share more with their daughters than sons.

There is a time when the mother does everything for the child and then there comes a time when the mother needs the same care, affection, and everything when with age they become dependent like a child. And it's the time for the children to take care of their parents the same way they took care. Not only mother, the same is applicable to fathers also who take all the pain to make ends meet. Sometimes they work more than the required time and move out on tours as the service demands. And they both see to it that their family and children are happy.

Not only Father's Day or Mother's Day, they are remembered every day and each day should be celebrated for them. And as children, we all should be thankful to God that we have been privileged enough to have had such parents from whom we learnt for whatever we are today.