What is it that you can trace to your mother that it is in you? Is it behaviour? Is it cooking? Is it religion? What are best gift your mother ever gave you?

Understanding and patience

logic and levelheadedness

Love, understanding, family values and forgiveness of others.

Will you please elaborate on what you meant by logic?

its easy to look up

the basic meaning is critical thinking

my paraphrase would be that logic is an ability to apply experience AND knowledge so we can accurately assess our surroundings or information or to come to a solution to a problem,,,


are we also going to elaborate on 'love' or 'patience' or other attributes mentioned in the thread?

My Mother gave me rainy days.

When I was little, and awoke to an overcast/rainy day,
Mother always had something planned.

She would have us empty all the kitchen food into the
bedroom, where we placed it like grocery shelves.

We would get a sack and 'buy' fixings for a meal.
Then we would go to the kitchen and cook it.

We learned, organization, money handling and cooking.

I would waken on rainy days and jump from bed to find
out what she had instigated.

The feeling is with me still.
Rainy days are the best :-)

now, that's awesome!

Awww :-)

One time, she hired a pony and we and all the
neighbor kids rode it around in the double garage.

She was the goddess of the 'hood :-)

lol,,just picturing a pony in the hood

she sounds like a lot of fun,,,,

She was the best :-)

We lived right near the Hayward Airport.
The neighbors were upset about the noise so they
all voted to send my Mother (the irresistible
ex-Beauty Queen) over to the airport to put
a stop to it.

Uh huh.

She began taking flying lessons from the handsome
young guys in the flight club and got her pilot's
license.

Next time, the neighbors got together and sent my
pizzed-off Dad over to the airport to make a stand.

He also got his pilot's license.

Some people are intrepid :-)

My mums stubborness and her sharp wit!

I would say it was probably the ability to think in-verrtively and tenaciaously. If my Mom ran into and barrier she just figured out a way to get around it.