Mothers know best

Mother's day cake and birthday cake for Mom below

There was a time I used to purchase cakes for family events and special occasions (I was too tired to come home and make a cake from scratch). Then one day I decided to surprise my mother and made a cake for her after a long day of work. When she tasted it, she looked at me and said, “Where did you get this cake? It is way better than the ones that you usually get for me.” She didn’t have to say anything else after that, I just knew that the time of purchasing cakes for my mom was gone; it was the beginning of desserts made with love just for a special person “MOM”.

Isn’t it funny the way most of us talk about our mother more than our father? Yes, I make cakes for Dad too and he really loves them. But there is a special bond that exists between children and their mothers that only God created. Father’s Day came and went, you didn’t hear that much talk about it through the media or just people among themselves. Is it because us men, we are “macho?” or is it just the way our world tries to recognize the special place women have in our lives? You will see in many families that most people have longer and deeper conversations with their moms more then to their dads. Do you remember last Mother’s Day? What a question, probably nobody can forget it! People were talking about it two or more months before and you had to have a reservation if you wanted a seat in a restaurant -- or you had the option of waiting for hours before your family was seated.

Mother's Day is truly special, and in my personal opinion women should be treated with high regard. Our society as a whole should go back to the system that used to exist in biblical times when there used to be a “college” of older mature women that had the role of training the younger women about life. Today, everything is just fast, “rapido”, and in a hurry and, unfortunately, no time is given to training. Yet, we still need to have married women who will be able to handle life in the 20^th century so that they will be helpmates to their husbands, and we still need single women to carry themselves with such grace that men have no choice but to be gentlemen towards them. Mother's Day is the day that we honor our mothers, but it should also be a reminder that older women should mentor younger women.

I enjoy making pastries for special people, especially for Mother's Day, and I thank God that by His grace I am surrounded by them -- God bless all the Mothers!