my mom thinks i'm cool

I think everyone is looking for someone who will love them through crap.
Lucky for me I was born with that person.
My mother.

She has seen me at my worst.
My worst would be: procrastinating on a project at 3 o’clock in the morning, cussing like a sailor, being late, no makeup, with the blues, yelling, being ungrateful.

Yea all very not attractive things. But that doesn’t stop her from loving me. There’s a tall stack of cards in my closet…she’s sent me a card EACH week since I’ve been gone, sent fake snow & Christmas music so I wouldn’t be to homesick for the holidays, and hangs up on me when I call her so she can call me back so I don’t have to waste my money on phone cards.

There’s so many things I can write about my mother like how I love that we have the same obsessions with celebrity gossip, handbags, and fish tacos, or how she’s one of the people I highly respect and trust in my life…all these things are true. But these are things that just make her more of a beautiful person. First and foremost I love her because she is my mother. The first person to really hold me when I came into this world, blood of my blood, the one person in the world who’s first instinct is to protect me. Other than death & taxes there are other facts in life that will always stay constant…
she will always be my mother, and I will always be her daughter.

Even through all that she won’t take credit for it.
Because at the end of the day she’s just like everyone else…human.
She has let me down, at some moments she’s my least favorite person (usually when we’re disagreeing about something). And she knows that. She knows that she can’t always protect & love me perfectly 24/7.Not one of my depressing/ranting conversations from being abroad has she not failed to remind me of my purpose, my worth, and whose opinion really matters at the end of the day...God's. Yea, that might sound cliche or used, except for the fact that she lives that out in her life which makes all the difference.

So I guess this mother’s day I just wanted to say what every kid should say more to their mothers and that would be: Thank you for loving me at my worst, for wiping my snot on that pretty dress when I was a kid, I appreciate you, and life would just be different without an overprotective mom :)

[love you mama]

Happy Mother’s Day Mom.