Christine

Christine, you always kept the front door open wide

Us kids came first, you pushed your own needs aside

You took the backseat, without a complaining word

Selfless and humble, the kindest voice I've heard

Always there for others, a love I didn't earn

With a quiet kind of grace and so many lessons to learn

There was a time when life took its heavy hold

But you never stopped loving me, you never let me fold

My real-life superhero, never worried or concerned

You gave me the best lessons that I have ever learned

And if I had to do this whole life over

I'd choose you to be my mother again

I still smile about that trip out to Ohio

Got lost immediately with nowhere else to go

But you just grinned and laughed like an ordinary day

Making all the chaos and the trials shrink away

Summer morning yard sale tents, looking for a treasure

Till breakfast starts calling, bringing tears of simple pleasure

There was a time when life took its heavy hold

But you never stopped loving me, you never let me fold

My real-life superhero, never worried or concerned

You gave me the best lessons that I have ever learned

And if I had to do this whole life over

I'd choose you to be my mother again

Hours on the couch watching your men in short pants

Every Saturday morning, given half a chance

Then Audie Murphy rides in, your favorite cowboy still

My hero watching her hero, with quiet time to kill

There was a time when life took its heavy hold

But you never stopped loving me, you never let me fold

My real-life superhero, never worried or concerned

You gave me the best lessons that I have ever learned

And if I had to do this whole life over

I'd choose you, Christine, to be my mother again

Yeah, if I had to do this life all over

I'd choose you to be my mother again