Mother of the Year
During this difficult and stressful time, La Semana would like to offer a break from the sad news and announce a little early its honoree for Mother of the Year: Sara Uriarte.
Here Sara shares a few of her secrets for raising nine successful children, including Casa Tequila owner Carlos Aguirre, all while being part of a happy and productive marriage for half a century.
Sara Uriarte and her husband, José Aguirre, are a role model couple. They have everything that other mortals often can only wish for: a common past that has become the solid base of their love, a shared present that provides the bricks of every day life and a future to build where the sky is the limit.
Today, the Aguirres celebrate their 50-year wedding anniversary and wanted to share with La Semana’s readers some tips for a successful marriage.
Sara and José were born in Jalisco, and got married at 21. They had nine children together and a life full of memories that shows that the key to a real marriage is to share love, to share wealth, to share tasks and the upbringing of all the children.
“It wasn’t that hard to raise the children back then,” Sara recalled. “Although they were troublemakers, my son Juan used to ditch school, but we both were strict. We always told them, you will have to study for life.”
And those children studied, they grew and eventually decided to move to the USA to offer a better quality of living for their own children. Years later Sara and Jose moved to Tulsa, to share their lives with their 28 grandchildren.
“So far all my children are happy and healthy,” said Sara, with a look of satisfaction. She knows that her wedding anniversary is much more than a celebration, it is the celebration of life that multiplied after beginning with the love of only two souls.
“It is a miracle that God has blessed us with these good-hearted children,” said Sara.
As usual in life the key for a happy ending is love.
“We did not argue, we knew what we had to do,” Sara explained.
But love needs secret ingredients to spice it up, and Sara knows them all.
“If God is the center of the home, if talking replaces arguing, if you speak instead of fighting then everything works,” the wise matriarch insists. “You need to grab God’s hand and ask him to bless the family.”
Sara and Jose are what we are all supposed to be, and on their wedding anniversary they invite us all to reflect upon that formula that challenges us to trust love, even in times of desolation. (La Semana)