Mother for 3 generations....

It is but obvious to have a mother for one generation. The meaning of the word “mother” as we are all made to believe is one who cares for the growth of her close one(s). I have been lucky to have a mother who has done the same for 3 generations.
The working lady that she was (now she has taken voluntary retirement) was instrumental in lending a helping hand to my father in elevating the financial levels of my father’s family. She has touched upon their lives as if they were all her kids and related through her birth. Now that I am working, I am really surprised how one can be so saintly with regards to money. Despite earning, she used to ask my father for the slightest of the expenditure as if she was not self-reliant. God only knows how my father’s family would have been if it had not been for an earning daughter-in-law in the family.
And as they say I happened. Then it was only me and my sister for this lady. She became a mother and that is the most that I know about her. She became the most doting lady around and gave the best of the tips sometimes normally and sometimes sternly. Whatever I am today has been due to the hard work that she has undergone behind the scenes. While my father was the external chiseller, there was this lady for both of us supporting both of us in our respective endeavors.
We all yearn for a government job but here is a person who quits the same to be with her grand-child with the sole interest of inculcating our family values in him. I am told by my father that she has started routing her pension payments to the savings account of my kid. Aware of her husband’s habit of spending money in social service, it is her instruction to my father not to touch any of her earnings lest she find it difficult to route money to my son’s a`ccount. It is not just about money as we grown learning one thing that money and material things are all transitory and hence should not be given more importance than growth of the soul (read mind). The pains that she takes physically now as if my son were her another kid. I am not sure whether it is because of me or the kid but I see her maintaining the motherly continuity; now that my kid is her entire universe (thats what she has made me understand).
Indebted that myself and my father are to this lady, I hope that all ladies of our generation also stand up to our projected women of idle ladies. I do not know of others but yes I am lucky to be the kid of a mother for three generations.