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Home - The Place Where We Grumble The Most And Are Treated The BestBy Candace Tucker and Donna Brown Tucker
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I guess one could say that my mother and I had troubling teenage years. If "pushing the envelope" had been a saying in the 1960s, it would have described my attitude and my goal for most every day.
During these years my mother, Donna Brown Tucker, made the sampler that is incorporated in my wall-hanging, but she didn’t give it to me until the late 1980s. I imagine hurtful things were said and unsaid between us. Much has happened to our family since the 1960s, all for the better. We are great friends, so the words of our sampler have much meaning to our history and even more meaning to our future. Mothers and daughters have very special relationships that are ever changing. When I read the words "Home, the place where we grumble the most and are treated the best" I remember those years when I pushed the envelope and smile. And privately, I’m glad I didn’t have a daughter. I used a red and white striped dishtowel found in my grandmother’s personal effects and two well worn tablecloths found at a junk shop as additional accents. |