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You have said it. Surely you have thought it. Maybe many of you are thinking of it today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It goes like this: Where would we be without our mothers? The one answer is obvious, in that we wouldn’t be anywhere without them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

My bride and I brought two boys into his goofy world of ours. I cannot tell you where they would be without Kathy Anne there to guide them through life’s trials I can assert, though, that they wouldn’t be the two finest men in the world. My pride in them is real, it is visceral, it is — to whatever degree one should ascribe to it — my legacy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But none of this is about me. It is about Kathy Anne.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I lost her to glioblastoma a little more than three years ago. Her fight against this aggressive brain cancer was brief, but it was savage. I lost her six weeks after getting the diagnosis of a mass on the right side of her brain.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We were married for more than ever 51 years. She was 71 when she took her final breath.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

God put her on this Earth to be a Mom. She was a natural. Her mothering instincts were virtually perfect. She always could comfort them when they hurt. She knew how to tease them without damaging their emotions. She always couched her advice into phrases that reminded our sons to trust their own instincts … and that no matter their decision, they would have their parents’ backing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Kathy Anne taught them to be respectful to adults. She imbued in them a sense of humility. She laughed and cried with them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And the moment she and I learned we were going to be grandparents was one for the ages. She shrieked, giggled and cried all at once.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mother’s Day is not the same without my bride. I am continuing to build on the life she and I started. One of the key results of that life-building has been that my family and I are closer than ever.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

That is how she would want it.<\/p>\r\n\n

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You have said it. Surely you have thought it. Maybe many of you are thinking of it today. It goes like this: Where would we be without our mothers? The one answer is obvious, in that we wouldn’t be anywhere without them. My bride and I brought two boys into his goofy world of ours. … Continue reading Honoring my favorite Mom<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[10124,3138],"class_list":["post-59806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","tag-kathy-anne","tag-mothers-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59808,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59806\/revisions\/59808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}