Editor’s Note: The following letter was written by Lorie Bosetti’s kids to nominate her for ‘Homemaker of the Year.?

Dear Homemaker of the Year committee,
Our Mom’s name is Lorie Ann Bosetti and she is 43 years old. She’s been married to my Dad (Gene) for 20 years and has two children, Dan, who will be 19 in September and Katherine, who will be 14 in December.
Our mother quit the outside 9-5 job when she was pregnant with me (Dan), and just after I was born she started to care for other people’s children. In Madison Heights, she watched 18 children (not all at the same time mind you).
Five years later, my sister came along. When Katherine was six months old, we found out she had a severe allergy to milk proteins (proteins found in most foods and also found in school glue, soap and paint). Her allergies have been our mom’s quest to conquer. She was determined to make my sister’s life as normal as possible. Grocery shopping was more than just a quick stop, she had to read every label. When my sister got a little older, my mother became creative in making healthy, dairy free foods for her.
My mother has always tried to make things for her so my sister did not feel out of place. If she was invited to a party, mom always checked with the parent so Katherine could have the same things as the rest of the guests. I’m not saying we have always avoided the allergic reaction, Mom just knew what to do (injecting Katherine with her epinephrine and taking her to the hospital for further treatment). Hey, things happen. Mom never panicked.
In 1992, we moved 30 miles to the country and Mom was suppose to take a part-time job. She started to search for a daycare for my then 18-month-old little sister, but because of her allergies she could not find one. Just two weeks after moving in, still with boxes to unpack, Mom started from our house Bubble Gun Daycare. It started with two children and within the next few months, Clear Lake Elementary School knew my mother’s name and had our number memorized to pass on.
At last count, over the past 18 years, Mom has had 109 children. These are children that she has watched some for just the summer, some were full-time, others part-time. During these years, my mother has had helper after helper, and they have all gone on to college and have had children of their own, but she is still the same…
Some of the kids in her daycare were taken on our family trips because of their families? work schedules or they could not find care ? this way they were taken care of. During the 4-H fair, she has taken off a week from the daycare only to have four children that could not find daycare with her all week, and she was still able to complete her volunteer work with the 4-H fair kids.
It was her first year handling Superintendent of the Poultry area, and there were some ups and downs when you think about the infamous Emus escape incident. Last year, I know she cried a little, but she smiles and laughs when she talks about it now.
Mom treats other children as they were her own. If you need three kids fed dinner, another picked up from an after school activity, and then return to bring another one to soccer practice all within one hour – with my mom, all you have to do is ask.
She is a volunteer at our church and volunteers for religious education classes, and the 109 children mentioned only counted the daycare children. There are additional nieces and nephews she has watched over the years without pay.
For the past seven or eight years, Mom has helped Mr. and Mrs. Claus in the community. In one weekend alone, she traveled with them from a Shriners event at 7:30 a.m., to an 11 a.m. parade in Pontiac, and then a 2 p.m. parade in Oxford that included a walk through all the town’s businesses and a meet and greet with Santa. She took a quick stop home to get a bite to eat, and then joined Mr. and Mrs. Claus for an the evening light parade in Lake Orion. The next day, she helped them with a 4-H float in the Rochester Parade.
Mom is the leader of my sister’s 4-H Poultry Club, and last year there were 88 children in the club. The children in the club refer to her as Mom. We do not feel that is wrong because she seems to be everyone’s mom. This year we joined the livestock club and this meant my mother attending meetings on another day. Usually they are in the same weekend, just different days. We raise chickens, turkeys and this year added pigs.