By Joe Kingsley Eyiah, OCT, Brookview MS, Toronto-Canada

Hello Sweet Mother,
Happy Mother’s Day! Should I say that only on this day? To me, any day I think about you is a Mother’s Day! Anyway the world has come to accept May 13 every year as Mother’s Day so let me use this special day to congratulate you as my mother.
You were and still are the first woman in my life, so I know you more than any other woman in my life. You gave me milk of life that eventually developed my teeth for chewing bones. No other woman in my life ever taught me how to eat, sleep and walk. I learned to walk on your encouragement, sleep on your lullaby and, eat from your hands!
You might still think of me as that naughty little baby boy who made your clothes smell with pee. You can’t imagine me shave my beard to have a smooth face. Yes! Distance and time might have changed me yet I am your little boy who will forever love you!
Some women may curse me but you won’t.! They may wish me dead when I am being stubborn but you would always wish me long life. You are always there for me, through thin and thick.
How can I repay you for all the care you took of me when lying on my cradle bed? Money cannot compensate you for that.
I pray you grow older to see me grow old!
Happy Mother’s Day, mom!
God bless you.
Affectionate,
Son