JUST KEEP SWIMMING

Bridgedette's Thoughts:


When my brother and I were little, my mom would try and teach us not to give up. She did it in such a creative way that after 27 years, its still part of my thought process.

The story goes;

You are swimming in the ocean and you are told to swim to the buoy and you will meet your goal....you will win once you reach that destination where a boat will be waiting for you, to bring you back to shore.

So you begin to swim and half way to the buoy you get scared and think that you are not going to make it; so you are faced with two choices....turn back and swim to shore OR keep going and swim to the buoy and the boat.

For thoses who choose to turn around: You will realize that by turning around and swimming back to shore, you have just swam the other half of the distance needed to reach the buoy.

My mom always told us that If you JUST KEEP SWIMMING you can reach your goal!


It is for my Mother's crazy stories and silly ways of entertaining us to making it through the hard times that I write this blog. I had every intention of writing this blog for my mother on Mother's Day, but then I got to thinking. Mother's Day is EVERY DAY!! Mothers are Mothers every day of the year, not just on the second Sunday in May. So I chose to write this blog today, to recognize my mother!

All children think that their mothers are the "smartest" and the "best." But it is without a doubt that my mother is the strongest.

• Not only was she strong enough to graduate from high school as an orphan, but she was strong enough to learn that love doesn't hurt.
• She was strong enough to keep her family together and strong enough to love again.
• She was strong enough to admit when she was wrong and she was strong enough to hold her ground when she was right.
• She was strong enough to be the disciplinarian and she was strong enough to not care about what people thought when we had mud fights in the front yard. "Hey, its washable." (another famous mom saying)
• She was strong enough to save for the house we live in and she was strong enough to spend time after work on the many extracurricular activites we were involved in...believe me, there were MANY!!

Today, my mother is strong enough to manage million dollars of assets and strong enough to take on college while once again trying to keep her family together from almost 1,000 miles away.

So, YES, MY MOTHER IS THE BEST, THE SMARTEST, THE MOST SKILLED TO TELL YOU THAT YOU COULD DO BETTER AND TO LOVE YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE.

I am grateful that she is silly, kind, stern, vocal, giving, humble,wise and a great story teller. I hope that one day I can be a tenth of the woman that my mother is. I just have to keep swimming......