For Mom, My Heroine, on Mother’s Day
Posted on 05/12/2013 by Trish Vradenburg | Before I Forget | Comments
Personal HealthMy mother had a cleft palate. It was fixed when she was three years-old, and you could never tell anything was wrong by looking at her, but it left her with two impediments: her speech and her mother. Because of my mom’s speech impediment, my grandmother told my mom she would probably never get married. Really? Is that the way you bolster your child’s self-confidence? Maybe she thought she was protecting her daughter from the harsh realities of life. To …
