~~~~ MOM I LOVE YOU AND HAPPY MOTHER"S DAY To The BEST Mom On This EARTH~~~~

Boy, how do you do thank your Mom:

How do we try and thank our Moms for all they have done for us on a single page of paper?

Pray I even get it half right?

There are many many people, like me and you ,that chose to stay behind in Torrington Conn USA ( or your town ) because we still have loved ones living and we have a conscience once we realized we were the only ones left behind :-)

My grandmother Jennie Driscoll had a few great sons but ONE stayed and lived with her to the end.

My uncle John Driscoll whom retired after 40 plus years at Pratt & Whitney, stayed with her till the end,you gotta love him!

I have brothers in Maryland and Colorado,sisters in Alaska and Kentucky and then there is me who now lives back on the road I grew up on , less than a half dozen houses from my Mom,the place she wants to live the rest of her days,her home.

Is this not true of your Mom that read this today, also want to spend the rest of their lives in their homestead where you were raised?

My Mom Alyce O'Sullivan Driscoll was born on the Unionville/Farmington line and grew up in the original house ( still there today ) on Route Six where the "Centennial Inn Suites" is located.Here is the link to her home as the house itself has not changed!

http://www.centennialinn.com/

She married my Dad on July 4 th 1955, right out of a storybook romance novel.

Everybody loved my Mom and Dad.

I know I am not half the man my Dad was and recently had a cousin I barely know remind me of that!

Dad was a lawyer/banker for the next 41 years and Mom raised five great kids, well four plus me and even taught a few thousand kids how to dance from the 1950's ( above Morrison's Hardware ) to the latter part of the 1970's.

As I look back now, how my Mom ever did it all, I will never understand?

Yep, have you asked this same question about your Mom?

Never heard that bad four letter word out of my Dad and or my Mom's mouth, no vulgarity at all. That is how they were raised and they had love for everyone.

We had so many friends and I got to know kids of all backgrounds thanks to Mom's friends. I would get to go to this ones house on the Westside or up the lake in Goshen or Winsted or just hang out with the 100 plus kids in our local neighborhood.

Yes, we would learn to be hard to handle in our teen and into the 1970's years where carrying rolling papers in a pants pocket was not abnormal,sad as I look back,though we did not beat up people walking around town.

My parents had fun groups come to visit on weekends and Christmas Eve, we were the open house place for many local families we did not get to see but that one night of the year.Christmas Eve's ( Christmases in general ) do not get better with time, they only get worse,sorry, just my opinion.

Kids get older and our favorite older people do in fact die.it is part of life.

Yes,I can remember my Mom reading me a story to fall asleep or helping set up that netting when i had
"that hooping cough crap."

The first school bus ride was easier with Mom there to meet me as I got off that bus!

Taking me to school,after school activities or that dreaded visit to the doctor or worse the dentist and that smell in the office?

I hope you will add a few hundred memories of YOURS today of YOUR Mom?

Yes, all of us have probably treated our Mom in a situation we wish we could take back and I will be the first to admit that.

Today, my Mom can be found helping out with anything to do with the Saint Francis School or Church as that is her passion and everyone of your Moms needs a passion.

It might be their Bingo night or watching American Idol or a participating member of a fraternal organization?

Mom, is now in her golden years and it would not be truthful if I did not add that we argue from time to time.

NO ONE, wants to loose their independence but they also must understand we kids do want to help even if it is small in substance of some kind!

I can NEVER thank my Mom enough for all she did for me.I never say " I love you " enough to her and just do not know how to make up for all the wrong I did over the years.

Hope it just ain;t me?

By the time you read this my Mom and I will be going to Copake Falls,New York State, to a place my Mom,Dad and all us five kids used to go to all the time. I have packed a lunch and we will sit and reminisce about days gone by and hopefully not get into an argument? Again, does that sound like you and your Mom? Have a great day folks!

This was a little longer than my usual story and PLEASE read my first few other stories and try to join in here Monday through Friday and voice or shout out, so to speak.

P.S. THERE are MANY of you today, whom may have ONLY had a Dad that played BOTH the roll of a DAD and a MOM and or many more whom lost your Mom this past year. To YOU people, I wish you hope and great memories of your loved one no longer here today.They are not forgotten!

Here you can post ANONYMOUSLY and please click where it says COMMENTS to read what others have written and again, please post a comment as well.

This blog stuff is all new to me and I thank the Publisher Matt D. for allowing me to express myself in this unique way and thanks for the front page notice letting you folks know I am now here, that was kind of the Register Citizen and a surprise to me.

It is the local newspaper with many great employees,reporters,photographers,editors right down to the great lady,Delores, who delivers my newspaper daily!

PLEASE, if nothing else: in the next week, let your Mom and or Dad or brother out in East Osh Gosh know they can click on the website http://www.registercitizen.com/ go to OPINION/BLOG CENTRAL page and read my daily musings.

And, If Mom and or Dad do not like the computer, print them out for them!

MOM, I LOVE YOU, may you live to be 101 years young, Michael

P.S. We will discuss anything you would like to hear. Let's rock and roll folks, this is NOW YOUR SITE TO VENT AS WELL!