Mother's Day: The Doors That Welcome You Home

There's a door in almost every meaningful memory.

The front door your mother held open when you came home from school. The hospital door that swung open the morning you were born. The door to the room where your family gathered, year after year, for the holidays and the ordinary Sundays and the moments that didn't feel significant at the time but turned out to be everything.

At MDH, we spend our days thinking about doors — the commercial kind, the ones that go into schools and hospitals and office buildings and houses of worship across Nebraska. We think about gauges and fire ratings and hardware schedules and lead times.

But this weekend, we're thinking about something else.

We're thinking about the people who stood on the other side of those doors. The ones who kept the light on. Who heard the door open and came to meet you. Who made whatever room was behind that door feel like the place you most wanted to be.

For most of us, that person is a mother.

A Note From Our Team

Mother's Day is one of those occasions that cuts across every background and every belief. The shape of family looks different for all of us — but the experience of being cared for, of being welcomed, of having someone in your life who made you feel like you belonged somewhere, is something most of us share.

We're grateful for the mothers on our team, the mothers in our families, and the mothers in the lives of every contractor, building owner, and facility manager we have the privilege of working with.

If your mother is still with you, we hope you find a good door to walk through together this weekend — and that she's waiting on the other side of it.

If she isn't, we hope the memory of that door, and the person behind it, brings you something close to comfort today.

From our team to yours — Happy Mother's Day.

Midwest Door and Hardware — Lincoln and North Platte, Nebraska

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