Day 2

I'm back :)

     Today, I am happy because I have a wonderful mama who really wants me to succeed in life. Like all teenage girls, we have our fights and disagreements, she drives me crazy, and I drive her crazy, but at the end of the day, my mom is my MOM, and she loves me. My mom devotes an incredible amount of her free time researching things for me, whether it's colleges, jobs, the nearest DMV, or just how to make my favorite dish, none of these I ask her to do, but she does it out of love. Now, I'll admit, she does tend to drive me crazy and stress me out when she says things like, "When should we start driving again?" or, "Look at this job I found for you!" but she truly does it out of love, because she wants me to succeed in life. She was the one responsible for finding BOTH of the colleges that I was interested in going to, and honestly, without her, I don't know where I'd be.
     
     It's not like she doesn't have enough to worry about already, because with five kids, Lord knows, she needs a break! That just makes it even more special that no matter what, she wants the best for us, and she WILL find the best for us. Literally, she devotes every waking minute of her life to us kids, and I don't think that we realize all that she does for us, but then I log onto the computer and see five different church youth group pages up, or registration for sports teams, and think, "did she REALLY just do that?" My mom is almost always juggling a million different things, trying to take this kid there, and feed that kid, and put the right shoes on this one, yet in the back of her mind, she has so many other things she thinks about for me and wants for me that I rarely get to see, it really is amazing.
  
   It constantly amazes me how despite her thoughts and never ending lists of things that need to be done, she can look at me, and know when something's up. I am so lucky to know that no matter how crazy life gets, no matter how many things have gone wrong, no matter how TERRIBLE the timing, my mom will always, ALWAYS be my number one fan. I am so incredibly grateful for everything my mom does for me, all the crap that she takes from me, the many miles she's driven for me, the many meals she's cooked for me, and the many MANY hours she spends thinking about colleges and DMV's and churches, because not all moms would do that, so if your mom does, be thankful and happy that she does! No matter how stressed out it might make you...;)

Thanks Mom!

<3 Always,
~Rose