The willowy model Twiggy with her little sprout.
Heidi Klum and her beautiful bundles of joy.
Wednesday Journal’s very own Lourdes Nicholls and her daughter, the dancing queen.
Rock-a-bye baby: Oak Park’s textile maven Pamela Penney with her son and daughter.
Listen to your mother: Wednesday Journal’s Evan O’Brien and his mother Mary Lee Eneberg soak up the sun.
A young Barack Obama and his mother Ann Dunham.
Actress and fashion trend setter Liz Taylor mothers in style.
The Hammond family: mom Carol, with beautiful daughters Abigail, Josanna, and Lydia.
Jackie Kennedy reading with her child.
OakPark.com’s Empowered Parent Blogger: Melissa Black Ford with children Max and Elise.
Stephanie Santos Gray and mom hug it out.
Proud mama Christina Rodriguez and adorable sons Aiden and Gavin.
Three’s company: The Curran family.
Dotting mother Raquel Latko and son Zander in a beautiful photo.
Virginia Skelley and daughter Allie share the love.
A whole lotta love: Marita Carlson Steuer and handsome sons Gavin and Mateo.
Mother knows best: Alice Wen and son Luke.
Mother Theresa, a woman with boundless love for all children and all of humanity.
Mother Angela Lam doing what she does best: adding laughter to the lives of her children.
Marion Pippin and cute-as-a-button son Steve.
The fashion-forward actress Gwyneth Paltrow and mother Blythe Danner.
All smiles, Goldie Hawn and daughter Kate Hudson.
The lovely Mia Farrow with four of her eleven adopted children.
Princess Grace Kelly with children, Princess Caroline and Prince Albert.
Funny lady Lucille Ball brought joy to millions of television viewers as well as her children’s lives.
Princess Diana of Wales with son Prince Harry.
The talented Linda McCartney and daughter Mary.
Today’s photo gallery is a dedication to all mothers and the women who have made a difference in our lives.
By Khalil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
My favorite picture in the gallery is the last image of the mother of all mothers, a mother to all children, young and old, lost and found.
“There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child – and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.” ~Robert Brault
I hope you enjoy. Happy Mother’s Day!
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