MOM

The older I get the more I realize as a child I had no idea all the things my mother did for me. The love she showed me and the things she sacrificed.

My mother was 18 by one month when she had me. She got her GED and married my father. Later she put herself though EMT school, Phlebotomy's school, X-ray technician school, and got her CDL to drive school bus. She was married to my father for 21 years before they divorced, and most of the time she was playing both roles of mom and dad.

Most of my childhood she was working two jobs at one time, and trying to write her music, But we always had a mother. She was never farther away than a phone call, and she was always home for dinner.

Many times growing up I didn't understand why she did the things she did. It didn't make since to me. Now that I'm grown and I have a child of my own I understand more. I now realize what she did and why she had to do those things.

So to my mother: Thank you, thank you for being mom and dad, for watching out for me, for being stricter than other parents, but most of all thank you for being my mom and not my friend. I love you.