I have always wondered how she made it through all those children so relaxed and calm, how she stayed active in her church attendance with Neil on the stand wrestling the younger children while the older ones read the comics, how she didn't beat her children when they cut up new couches, had flour fights in the the carpeted kitchen, apparently lit almost everything on fire,and were caught by the cops for egging houses, and how she was always more than happy to have permanant house guests in not the largest of living quarters on top of everything else.
At times, even Sunday dinnner can be trying on my patience, but Ruth Ann weathers every event with such patience and always with a smile on her face. When I ask Tommy what his mom was like growing up, I have come to the understanding that she rarely, if ever, even raised her voice. I am grateful to have such an incredible example of motherly patience and hope that I may even slightly come close to living up to that example.
Your amazing family is testament to your incredible abilities as a mother, not to mention your patience in having so many kids!
Jess
Patience is so not one of my virtue so I learn tons from Ruth Ann and hope she is wearing of on me a little!
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