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Top Ten Reasons My Wife Nan is the "Greatest American Mom"

By The Greatest American Lawyer

For those of you have have read my bio, Nan is the girl who knew me for 20 days, and agreed to marry me and my cool red Mercedes Benz. And, yes in my opinion, she was a bit distracted by the redness of the Benz.  So red she seemed to have missed the fact that I was living in it with my 90 lbs athletic and wise Golden Retriever named Prince who slept on the back dash, had not cut my hair in over 8 months and often slept in the woods.  Somehow, Nan never saw me as totally insane ..  you might think that is pretty impressive.  But here is my list of the Top 10 Reasons she is such a great mom. 

1. Nan speaks to our three boys Echo, Fields and Apollo as though they were human beings, not children.  
2. I always said that even in the years we made no money, she always was high maintenance food. She knows what she wants and how it should be prepared. And now Nan cooks fun, elaborate, high quality meals and snacks for these boys.  Part of her mission is to keep her boys fed well, with good food.
3. Nan reads books with the boys, slowly and carefully.  She takes all the time that is necessary, as though there was nothing else in the world so important and without even a hint of rushing. 
4. Nan teaches the boys about rules.  Mostly she teaches them how to bend them, or break them without getting caught.  Nan has never been a rule follower.  I guess that's one reason she may even love me.  
5. Nan is what some might say 'competitive.'  If you don't win, what's the point?  I wish I had learned to 'win' earlier in life.
6. Nan listens intently to most everything the boys say and engages them in meaningful conversation about kid stuff as though it were even more important that adult stuff.
7. Nan smiles, giggles and sometimes even snorts in the most easy sense of laughter I have ever known.  I think it is because she grew up as one of seven sisters.  Silliness is a skill in a house of seven girls.  And Nan was the entertainer of her family.  
8. Nan  was a full fledged groupie of several bands, never married until me at 34 years old, a hippie chick, a reggae dancer, adventurous and liked to spend her summers in the place we now live - Leelanau County, MI.. Need I say more? 
9. Nan loves the beach and insists that the boys spend the entire summer along the Lake Michigan Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore, from her summer condo at the Homestead with lazy days at the Glen Lake Yacht Club. It's tough, but I am sure it is good for the brothers to learn how to rough it.
10. Nan loves and cares for the brothers as though she were - well - a mom. 

Happy Mother's Day Nankins.  I love you for loving the boys 24x7 and me on occasion as well.  GAL

Full post as published by The Greatest American Lawyer on May 10, 2009 (boomark / email).