Meet Delores Stinson
Oklahoma
“Before I was a lunch lady feeding other people's babies, my mama was doing the very same thing.”
Nominated by her daughter, Miss Kay
Read her storyMom of the Week
She doesn't nominate herself. Somebody who loves her does.
Every week, I pick one.
Somebody writes in about a mom they know — a sister, a neighbour, a daughter — and tells me what she's been carrying. I read every one of them. Then I pick one, and she gets a page of her own, in the words of the person who put her name in.
There's no voting and nothing to win. She doesn't have to be having a good week, and she doesn't have to still be with us. Some of the best ones are about a mama who's already gone.
I spent a long while as a school lunch lady, feeding other people's babies. You learn something doing that job. The mothers who are working hardest are almost never the ones telling you about it.
So this is me telling them. One at a time, out loud, where their people can see it.
Feeding families since 1958.
Somebody you know is having a week.
- We check with her family before anything goes up.
- Children's names never go up. Not once, not anywhere.
- Her family sees the whole thing before it's published.
- One message takes it down, any time.
Tell me about her. Skip her last name, her town and her kids' names — we want to celebrate her, not put her address on the internet.
It takes about five minutes and she'll never know you did it until she's up here.