Happy, Happy, Happy - Mother's Day

I've yet to figure out how to superscript text on the blog. I'd love to be able to put the little cubed reference - #3 in superscript anytime I referenced my mothers. Yes, I have three. It all started out many years ago when I only had one. But today I sit here enjoying the love of the three most wonderful, unique, and caring women a boy could ever imagine having as a mother.

Please let me introduce (with the full story still to come):

Mother #1

(Picture is missing in action: per her request.)

The mother who changed my diapers, raised me, and made me the person I am today.

Mother #2

The mother I feel honored to call a mother - we cried on each others shoulders as she lost a son and I lost my best friend. I will never fill his shoes or the hole in left in our respective lives. But our relationships' fulfill some of our deepest needs. She has guided me through the storms and has been there with open arms, a warm meal, and a "place" in her life when I had none of the above.

Mother #3

My birth mother. An unbelievable woman who sacrificed her paternal rights for me - yes, for me! Thirty-four (34) years of unanswered questions, wondering, searching, and countless tears brought us together this year. The experience has been one of emotion, speechlessness, tears, joy, happiness, unimaginable feelings....it has seemed surreal but then oh so real.

(The full story will be in theaters Fall, 2010)