December 16, 2016 at 3:18 pm

My children each year ask me the same question. After thinking about it, I decided I’d give them my real answer:

What do I want for Christmas? I want you. I want you to keep coming around, I want you to bring your kids around, I want you to ask me questions, ask my advice, tell me your problems, ask for my opinion, ask for my help. I want you to come over and rant about your problems, rant about life, whatever.

Tell me about your job, your worries, your wife, or husband, or significant other, your kids, your fur babies. I want you to continue sharing your life with me. Come over and laugh with me, or laugh at me, I don’t care. Hearing you laugh is music to me.
I spent the better part of my life raising you the best way i knew how, and I’m not bragging, but i did a pretty darn good job.

Now, give me time to sit back and admire my work, I’m pretty proud of it. Raid my refrigerator, help yourself, I really don’t mind. In fact, I wouldn’t want it any other way.
I want you to spend your money making a better life for you and your family, I have the things I need. I want to see you happy and healthy. When you ask me what I want for Christmas, I say “nothing” I want you.

If you feel the same way, feel free to copy and paste this.

December 16, 2016 at 9:07 pm

Wow this is so inspiring! Just the thought of a mother having her children come to her and share their lives experiences, wanting to see them healthy and well, thats a very small gift to give to a mother according to a child but for a mother its the best gift that your child could ever give you. Time is one thing that so many people take for granted, but its the most powerful after love that someone could give to another. I came to realize as i grew up that money is not everything because you may have it and still lack that peace of mind or love. Spending time with that person that you love is the greatest thing you could do. It brings people closer in bonding with a cord that cannot be broken.how interesting is that. Wonderful feeling indeed.

December 16, 2016 at 9:24 pm

Could not agree with you more. Nowadays people are not having time even for themselves leave alone the people they love or the the people for whom they slog for a earning all their life. It has become as a assembly line where we are supposed to perform certain activities repeatedly over a period of time again and again and we get stuck in this clutter and coming out of it becomes a very difficult task for the individual howsoever they may want to try and get out of it. Proper time management and scheduling and understanding between the people concerned and not taking relationships for granted are all important aspects of this. All relationships are important in life and each play out its own role. And the relationship between the mother and her children is a very important one at that.

December 17, 2016 at 1:31 pm

Oh! I’m touched. I believe that all mothers are like that. I admire you as a mother to your children.

December 17, 2016 at 6:12 pm

That is nice of you, but me, I never had felt love of a mother, for my mom passed away when I was 5 years old. That was bad of me for I never knew how my mom cuddled me and how she told me of many things as a child.All I knew, I never have felt how love beats for a mother’s love and a child’s love to her mom.

If my mom was still alive when I was age 6 or 10, I will surely answer here that I want toys and toys for I never had remembered having toys after my mom left me without coming back. I keep on telling my students that they ought to love their mother.I further told them that is their primary obligation to ought to love their mother for mother has the endless pain the time she carried us until the time of her labor. I am so unfortunate for even a picture of my mom, no one in the family has save even one.

December 17, 2016 at 8:14 pm

yes. you are absolutely right. What does a mother want as a gift. She is a giver. Giving is a pleasure for her. If children are happy she feels very happy. This is the greatest sacrifice which is unparallel in nature. This is the love of a mother. We may shout at her, we may brag at her, we may sometimes hate her but still she wants our happiness in life. This is an infallible truth.

But, the children should always see that their mother and father feel happy always. Give them the affection, care, love , and everything they need. This itself is the greatest gift for a mother

December 17, 2016 at 8:37 pm

True mothers are like that and that is the best gift one can get and be blessed. It is a difficult life for mothers and I admire their grit, determination and stand up strongly against all odds for the sake of her children. That is what is called the epitome of motherhood  in our country. I wish you too could enjoy that from your mother.

December 17, 2016 at 8:42 pm

Cely I am really sorry for what happened to you. While I agree no one can ever replace ones own. There will be some mother figures in our lives who we will be admiring and relying on for the emotional support which is required for one to grow up as a child. I am sure you may be able to identify many such people who would have come and still are there in your life in different forms and roles. Appreciate and understand your point of view. Best wishes and regards.

December 17, 2016 at 8:50 pm

Agree with you Siva S S  100 percent, what ever has been stated is true and as written by you many of us seem to take our parents for granted. The sooner we change this attitude the better it is as the parents will get the most important gift of their life. Their children’s time and their attention which is very crucial emotionally in the later years of ones life or when they are chronically ill or if their is any need for which they are looking for support. Just to see their children around them itself will make them happy and give them immense joy. Whatever their age may be is immaterial. Appreciate your comments on this topic.