Spying a "Mom in action" can bring back memories of love, dedication, wisdom and a host of other maternal qualities rushing back. Mothers are truly special "people".

It was springtime and the rain had been falling for several hours. All the ditches and low places in the yards and fields were beginning to fill and overflow. It was not the kind of soft falling rain that caused each drop to look like a tiny ballerina pirouetting to the music of thunder.
I drove slowly down the gravel road with the windshield wipers clearing my view. My eye focused on something small and moving in the road ahead. I applied the brakes slowly and came to a full halt to watch the drama unfolding before me.
A mother skunk, her coat plastered to her from the rain, was carrying her little water-drenched baby across the road. I watched in amazement and pity as she took her little treasure and placed it on the high side of the bank. Not caring that I watched, she left it there and hurried back across the road. I waited hoping she would return, She did not disappoint me. Here she came again with another little wet bundle dangling from her mouth.
I drove on, thinking of the love that had caused this little mother to disregard her own safety and comfort to help her children.
Mother's are special people. That fact is very evident to us when we are very young. As we grow a little older she becomes the person who cooks and makes the beds and tell us "No" several times a day. When we are teenagers, she is interfering in our lives and doesn't understand us. When we get married she is the one who tells us all the good stuff - like how to make chicken fried steak and lemon pie. She sympathizes with us when our spouse tells us how dumb we are. It's too bad we don't really appreciate our mothers until we are older and start looking back instead of ahead.
I can see now that I had a very special Mom. She devoted her whole life to her children without ever making any of us feel that we had to earn her love. She gave it freely.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and cateth not the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Proverbs 31:26, 27 & 28