Mother's Day

The older I get the more days like Mother's Day and Father's Day mean to me. I have been reflective the last couple of days about why. Part of me says it is the aspect of being a mother myself. However, I think the real reason is because it takes some growing up before you realize how much of an impact your mother (or father) makes on your life. Additionally, I never realized how crazy my mom's life must have been until now. I get so stressed out just trying to work, manage commitments, and complete the work I need to do on the house. I can't imagine how I would feel if I was also running my kids around every evening to their commitments. It makes the fact that my parents were at every ball game, concert, etc. that much more impressive.

I have also came to realize how much like my mom that I am. When I was growing up, I "hated" the country, animals, plants, etc (well just about everything...I was a difficult teenager). All of that stuff makes me laugh now. I have a house with a big yard and lots of trees but I would like to be more secluded. I am embarrassed at how important my pets are to me, and I have a million plants...all just like my mom. Ben randomly brings up other things that make me similar to mom. For instance, I think I can fix any illness on my own (Mexican drugs work), I love kids, and I am really careless with things.

The thing is that I am so thankful for having such a wonderful mother. I can't imagine a person who I would rather be compared to. I hope and pray that one day I am as great of a mother as she was.

**I have lots of similarities to my dad as well, that is one of the very neat things about parenting and genetics. I will save the information about him for fathers day.