Your Mother called and said she wants you to buy a house!

Happy Mother's day one and all. Your mother called and said she wants you to buy a house!

My Mom was one of the great women of her day, but you already knew that didn't you? Smile, if you too have ( or had) a great Mom, and I know you did.

My Mom was a Vermont farmer's daughter, the oldest of three siblings and the only girl born to Clayton Rose and Edna Eastman Rose back in December of 1931. She was Joyce Elaine Rose. You know by that date that she spent her early years in the grip of the Great Depression in the cold. That'll shape your psyche, and cement your world view.  She graduated from North Concord, VT High School in 1949 and rejected a few full ride scholarships to do what many of her peers did. Get married. Just over the White Mountains of New Hampshire, in southern Maine she had met a handsome Marine named Maurice Edwards. Apparently he was infinitely more interesting than higher education. At least initially.

If there young lives had taught them anything it was this, get a house of your own! It was post World War II, the era of the Baby Boom, the fading memories of the Depression pointed them in a certain direction with a steely resolve. That direction was toward home ownership as a means of having a more secure life than that of their parents. Their future plan was to raise a family in a level of comfort never before experienced either individually or collectively in these United States. And so it was.

Thank you Mom and Dad, but especially Mom on your Day for being a part of that greatest generation in the history of the world...and for making a home for all of us.