Most kids are only born once...

In Celebration of Mothers


She's been there for you every step of the way. She smiled when you smiled. She

laughed when you laughed. She cried when you cried. She still does. ****************************************************

Most Kids Are Born Only Once

Before you were conceived I wanted you

Before you were born I loved you

Before you were here an hour I would die for you

This is the miracle of love.

-- Maureen Hawkins


Mother is always there when you need her. She helps, protects, listens, advises and nurtures

phyiscally and morally. She makes sure that her family is loved 24 hours a day, seven days a

week, 52 weeks a year. At least that's how I remember my mother, for the few precious years

I was blessed to have her. But no words can describe the sacrifice she made out of love for me,

her young son.

I was 19 years old, and en routte to a concentration camp with a large group of other Jews. It

was clear we were destined to die. Suddenly my mother stepped in and traded places with me.

And although it was more than 50 years ago, I will never forget her last words to me and her

good-bye look. "I have lived long enough. You have to survive because you are so young,"

she said.

Most kids are born only once. I was given birth twice - by the same mother.


By Joseph C. Rosenbaum Copyright 1998 Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen,

Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Marci Shimoff.