Today was a very busy mother's day. How are we supposed to fit all the love and gratitude we owe our moms into one day? My mom, and all the other "mom"s i'm lucky enough to have have made me into the woman i am today. Wether you can say that's a good or bad thing, they have nonetheless shaped my thoughts and decisions and helped me develop my character as i know myself today. My mom has wiped my tears, dressed my wounds, spanked my butt and laughed at my jokes. She has rubbed my stomach when it hurt, and let me cry when my heart broke. We have not always been friends, but i feel and hope that we are moving in a direction where we can one day be good friends. I have her and my dad to thank for my sense of morality and my (some would say unnatural) work ethic...a job worth doing is worth doing right...the first time. Even when we didn't agree on anything else, we've almost always agreed on our sense of style. My mom has an incredible eye for colors, and because of that there are still some days she helps me get dressed in the morning. There's so much to say, and i'm sure as i press "publish" they'll come flooding to my brain, since i'm opening the proverbial flood gates, as it were. But that's the goal of motherhood, isn't it? I hope to leave so many memories with my children, both good and bad that when they think of me, they will be speechless...that my legacy will be something that cannot be put into words. Because sometimes, love doesn't need words.
I don't view my mom through rose colored glasses, nor do i view myself through them. We are not perfect, nor do we pretend to be, but we are simply mother and daughter, talking, shopping, living together, sometimes laughing and sometimes crying. And today I want to take a minute to honor her, and all the other 'mothers' God has blessed me with. <3
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