It’s Just Another Day….

I do not need it to be Mother’s Day to express my love for my mother.
We almost lost her for good a few years ago and I was thankful that I had decided to start doing what I needed to do to make sure my mother, and only living parent, knew that she was loved.


My mother hasn’t had an easy life; she has gone through things that I don’t know if I could go through. For the most part she raised her 5 children alone with whatever resources she had available.


Always there when we were sick, always up to get us on the school bus in the mornings and there to welcome us home from school in the afternoon, bringing some of us to and from practices or any other after school events that we may have been attending, the constant thing in all of our lives was the fact that she was there.


If we were sick in the middle of the night or having nightmares she was the one we ran to. Being a loving parent doesn't just mean giving us whatever we wanted but instead making sure we had everything we needed. As I grew up and had a child of my own I realized that what we thought were strict and hard to follow rules of a mean mother was in fact just what a responsible parent is suppose to do. Because of the rules and discipline in our home I learned right from wrong and the consequences of choosing to do the wrong instead of the right. I’m not saying things were great all the time or anywhere near perfect, but to dwell on those times does nothing but make me forget about all the good times, which we had lots of and I refuse to do that.


My mother was and is not a perfect parent but then again we were not perfect kids. I have grown past faulting her for what I thought was her faults and learned to appreciate her for who she is and what she has gone through in her life.


I know one day she will leave this earth and all I will have left are my memories so during the times when she is sick and needs a little help, I take care of her not out of obligation but out of love and respect, because she deserves it.


Today we spent the afternoon together, we had an early dinner/late lunch and did some shopping while she was feeling up to it. Making memories is what it's all about, living it so we have no regrets is what we do.


Happy Mother’s Day Mom!!