HER MANY HATS

When I was young my mom, like most women, donned a hat when she went out.

Dad said it added to her beauty…of this I had no doubt.

My mom had a collection of hats she stored in boxes under her bed.

So many different kinds of bonnets that sat atop her head.

Moms of today are different they go out with their heads bare

but one thing they share with Moms of the past are the many hats they wear.

If we tried to count the hats they don...we couldn’t...they go on indefinitely

Perhaps one way to approach it...is alphabetically.

Moms are:

Accountants

Babysitters

Chauffeurs...they do what 

Doctors and 

Electricians do…they are

Farmers 

Governors 

Housekeepers, and 

Ice cream makers too…they are

Janitors 

Kitchen and 

Laundry workers, and 

Maids who clean the floor…they are

Nurses 

Optometrists,

Painters 

Quality control inspectors and furthermore they are

Receptionists 

Seamstresses and 

Teachers…they can

Upholster that sofa or that chair…they are

Valets 

Washroom Attendants and 

X-Ray technicians…ready anytime and anywhere…they are

Yard managers and every Mom I know is also a keeper of the 

Zoo

That’s 26 different hats they wear…

26 different jobs that all Moms do.

Moms are the original and still the best multi-taskers the world has ever met.

In fact, I didn’t run out of hats for them...I ran out of alphabet!

I guess it’s a good thing each job doesn’t have a hat that sits atop Moms head

for there wouldn’t be enough room to store the boxes under their beds.

They are visionaries, they are cheerleaders, so much of our existence they adorn

yet they had no experience as a mother until the day when we were born.

Because it was at that miraculous moment, despite their fearfulness and qualms

when they smiled as they looked at us and realized……’I’m a Mom.’

For that is the hat that encompasses the rest...the hat we call motherhood

and I must admit, from where I stand 

Moms…you make that hat look good.

So Moms, here’s to a wonderful Mother’s Day as this poem bids you all adieu

For all the many hats you wear…

our hats are off to you.

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY