BLANCHE HABERSTICH - ACCEPTED
It’s Mother’s Day 2026! I am championing Blanche Haberstich, a breast cancer survivor for this quarters painting in the “With Love, Sarah Collection.” The painting was donated to her family and titled ACCEPTED. The name was chosen at her funeral last year when her granddaughter Jenny mentioned how she accepted anyone no matter what. Blanche was a champion to everyone in her life and accepted anyone who walked through her door. You could show up uninvited, then she would give you her full attention and make you feel like you were the most important person to her. I didn’t come from a close family yet she taught me how to create family and feel fully welcome to hers.
I’m trying to live my life to the fullest by unconditionally accepting my family and friends just as she did. I owe everything to Blanche; my values, my daughter Josephine’s safety, my education, and my freedom to be whatever I wanted to be in life. I was a single mother at 19, and Blanche watched my daughter Josephine, her great-granddaughter, everyday so I could lead a normal life. I was able to receive a college education while working at the same time. I knew Josephine was in great hands so I didn’t have to worry about leaving her to build a life for us. Blanche was the perfect picture of stability. She fed Josephine healthy foods, only occasionally having a Ruby Red Soda mustache, taught her manners, potty training, and displayed to me how to be a mother full of faith, hope, love, patience, resilience, and integrity.
Blanche was the greatest role model any woman could have, and her children demonstrate this as well. Blanche’s daughter Dixie is my daughter Josephine’s grandmother and mother of Josephine’s father Dan. Dixie was in the hospital room supporting me while I gave birth to Josephine. Dixie has been a cheerleader for me through all these years even supporting my new art journey. She exudes the same qualities as her mother Blanche. This family is unlike any family you’ll ever know. Blanche was the glue, the matriarch, the queen, and the First Lady of the Haberstich Family that includes her six children, three males, and three females. You could call them, “The Local Brady Bunch.”
I’m about to become a grandmother this summer of 2026. My new goal is to be the kind of grandmother Blanche was. Her qualities include being loyal, humanitarian, charming, independent, leader, witty, full of grace and gratitude, and one of the most beautiful humans created in the likeness of our heavenly Father. This Mother’s Day put your mother or the mother’s who helped shape you, up on a pedestal. Accept them for who they are even if you have nothing in common and don’t understand them. Unconditionally Love Them, Love Them, Love Them on this Mother’s Day.
Happy Mother’s Day, Moms!
BLANCHE HABERSTICH - ACCEPTED
It’s Mother’s Day 2026! I am championing Blanche Haberstich, a breast cancer survivor for this quarters painting in the “With Love, Sarah Collection.” The painting was donated to her family and titled ACCEPTED. The name was chosen at her funeral last year when her granddaughter Jenny mentioned how she accepted anyone no matter what. Blanche was a champion to everyone in her life and accepted anyone who walked through her door. You could show up uninvited, then she would give you her full attention and make you feel like you were the most important person to her. I didn’t come from a close family yet she taught me how to create family and feel fully welcome to hers.
I’m trying to live my life to the fullest by unconditionally accepting my family and friends just as she did. I owe everything to Blanche; my values, my daughter Josephine’s safety, my education, and my freedom to be whatever I wanted to be in life. I was a single mother at 19, and Blanche watched my daughter Josephine, her great-granddaughter, everyday so I could lead a normal life. I was able to receive a college education while working at the same time. I knew Josephine was in great hands so I didn’t have to worry about leaving her to build a life for us. Blanche was the perfect picture of stability. She fed Josephine healthy foods, only occasionally having a Ruby Red Soda mustache, taught her manners, potty training, and displayed to me how to be a mother full of faith, hope, love, patience, resilience, and integrity.
Blanche was the greatest role model any woman could have, and her children demonstrate this as well. Blanche’s daughter Dixie is my daughter Josephine’s grandmother and mother of Josephine’s father Dan. Dixie was in the hospital room supporting me while I gave birth to Josephine. Dixie has been a cheerleader for me through all these years even supporting my new art journey. She exudes the same qualities as her mother Blanche. This family is unlike any family you’ll ever know. Blanche was the glue, the matriarch, the queen, and the First Lady of the Haberstich Family that includes her six children, three males, and three females. You could call them, “The Local Brady Bunch.”
I’m about to become a grandmother this summer of 2026. My new goal is to be the kind of grandmother Blanche was. Her qualities include being loyal, humanitarian, charming, independent, leader, witty, full of grace and gratitude, and one of the most beautiful humans created in the likeness of our heavenly Father. This Mother’s Day put your mother or the mother’s who helped shape you, up on a pedestal. Accept them for who they are even if you have nothing in common and don’t understand them. Unconditionally Love Them, Love Them, Love Them on this Mother’s Day.
Happy Mother’s Day, Moms!
