My mom

My mom is my favorite person in this world.  For those who don’t have the pleasure of knowing my mom, she is a math teacher and has been for 20 years.  She has dedicated a bunch of time to this job as a teacher and a coach, and there have been so many students that have been greatly impacted positively from her 20 years.  Because of her love and passion for teaching, as well as my love of school, were the main reasons that I decided to become a teacher in the first place.  She has taught me so much in the past year as I have been completing my first year of teaching.  I have gone to her many different times in order to complain, share, and ask questions.  I don’t know what I would have done if I didn’t have her this year more than ever.  

You are the best person in my life.  Thank you for always being supportive of me.  When I started this blog, you were the first one to read my first blog.  (In fact, I think I had you read it over before I posted it).  You were my first follower and thus the first one to get email notifications to read my next blog.  You have commented so far on every blog that you have received. It is always great to know that I have at least one person who reads what I have to say and believes it to be valid. I wouldn’t know what to do if I didn’t have that person behind me to support me.  I wonder if I would have continued on or written my second blog if I didn’t have that constant support that was given from you.  Thank you for always supporting me, no matter what I was trying to achieve, whether this be this blog, my painting and crafting, or pursuing a career.  

Another big thing that my mom has done for me is empowered me.  She taught me how to love and have confidence in myself.  She herself is a strong and confident woman who never ever made it easy for me to give up or be weak about something.  When I started running, and I was awful at it, she would get upset with me when I would start crying and whining at the pain.  This was because whining at the side ache wasn’t going to make me a good runner.  Because of these things, I absolutely love running and have even achieved one goal of mine which was running a half marathon. My mom could have been easy on me, but she knew I could do better.   If I hadn’t had my mom to run with me, I wouldn’t have done that, and I most definitely wouldn’t be a runner today.  

She also has taught me to be a strong woman that can live on my own.  The only reason I am a very happy single person is because my mom never cared about me having a boyfriend.  She would hardly ever and I do mean ever ask me which boy I was interested in and never cared if I had a boyfriend.  This made me grow up to realize that the most important thing was not whether or not I was in a relationship.  Not that it is, of course, a problem if I ever do get married or have a boyfriend, but what is important is that it wasn’t something I would feel forced or persuaded into. What really mattered to her was that she taught me how to live independently, and that I am completely alright on my own.  She is just happy that I have a stable and great job, am able to pay my rent, can make my own meals, clean up and take care of my place (kind of), and be as happy as possible.  Also, as long and, of course, as I stayed connected to the faith and knew to rely on the love of Jesus for everything.

When I was a child, you were also one, sadly, that taught me that there is evil in the world. You were the one who taught me that there are people who intentionally try to hurt other people.  You would then feel so awful for me when someone would go out of their way to hurt me.  You would become mama bear 2.0.  I know that this year has been a bit rougher for you, and that makes me upset.  I am glad though that because of this year, you have actually grown closer to God.  You are becoming a more spiritual person.  This is because you are too good of a person to stay down, and I always want you to remember that.  There is nothing that is going to keep you down for good.  

Because of these reasons, I want you to have the best Mother’s Day ever!  I am so happy that I get to be your daughter and that you are my mom. I can’t believe that I have been so blessed. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY MOM!