Mother's Day 2025

 Mother's Day 2025

Sidney J. (Fairbanks) Doan 
Columbia, MD
August 16, 2013

It is a blessing that we can take a day to celebrate mothers. In the human experience, having a mother is something we all share. Sometimes the mother we celebrate may not be our biological mother, but to whom we choose to ascribe the title "mother" is, perhaps, the most honorable and important title in all of humanity.  

Today I honor all moms: my mom, my wife, my daughter, my daughters-in-law, and every woman who is a mom. 

Thanks for the love, toil, work, and dedication being a mom requires. You are the keepers of society and future generations.

Today, however, I especially remember, my mom. She passed during December 2021, but she is still very present with both Chris and me. One of the ways she is present is her maiden name. We often bike through a golf community and some of the streets are simply named Fairway with a direction (N, NE, E, SE, etc.). Her maiden name was Fairbanks and the similarity is enough to remind us of her every time we bike the Fairway streets. But more than that, both Chris and I refer to her often and the blessing that she was watching us progress from a couple of love-struck high school kids into who we are today. 

And even today my mom remains a blessing to my entire family for her strength, grace, and wisdom. 

Thanks for being my mom and the embodiment of love.

1 Cor 13:4-8a. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

-- Bob Doan, Tequesta, FL