August 8, 2004

• It's that time of the week again.  My "Family Member of the Week".  This week I decided to write about my mom.  She's simply wonderful.  This woman has been working since the tender age of sixteen and still doesn't stop.  I believe I got my hard work ethic from her.  She worked a half day on her own wedding day!  She's loving, caring, and supportive in what ever my brother and I do with our lives.  She never snooped in our rooms to find anything and while we were growing up the only thing she wanted to know was who we were hanging out with.  My mom is so cool that neither Jason or I were ashamed to bring our friends home.  Matter of fact a couple of our friends wished their mothers were like ours.  She's a funny lady that come up with funniest things to say.  Her most used expression is "Leave me alone, don't you know I've had a hard life?"  My mom and I have the ability to talk like girlfriends and mother/daughter.  She loves to go shopping and it's so much purchasing, but looking that she wants to do.  She guards her family like a mother bear and if anything goes wrong with any of us she's ready for a fight, be it with a doctor, neighbor, or a teacher.  My mom is the wrong person to piss off and if someone does piss her off they better take off running.  Not saying she'd kill anyone, but nothing comes between her or her family.  She's a priceless woman with a huge heart and enormous shoe addiction.  She also has skills in interior decorating.  For every holiday she decorated the trailer now her and my father live in an apartment and she decorated every room with a theme.  The kitchen is a roosters, the living room a safari, and the bathroom is fish.  She continues decorating for the holidays and does an excellent job.  She will not reveal her secrets to anyone.  She also has a kiddy side to her as well.  She loves singing/talking decorations.  She calls them her "friends", and one year she had Jason and my dad as well as herself turn on every decoration at the same time.  She's very fun loving. 

  
  

  My fondest memories of my mother take place in our living room watching the NBC Sunday Movie of the Week.  We're suckers for true story movies.  When I was about seven years old I begged my mom to watch the movie "Switched at Birth" with her, promising her I would get up for school with no hassle.  She reluctantly agreed thus begining the mother/daughter traditon.  This tradition lasted throughout my schooling and still takes place when I come in off leave.  We laugh together and cry together at these movies and we always have a movie discussion afterwards.  Also we're huge horror movie fans!  As you can plainly see my mother and I are a lot like and not just in looks.  Often times people joke about us being the same person.

  
  

  I love my mother very much and many soldiers can comment on me saying "I love you mom.", in my sleep.  My mom a fantastic person, it's no wonder my father chose her to be his wife.  My mom is very opinionated and she will tell anyone she doesn't like them.  She could care how people feels about.  She's her own person and will not conform to aplease anyone.  She's love her neighbor as she does herself.  If someone's in need she'll help them no matter the cost.  I love my mom and wouldn't trade her in for all the money in world.  My mother is my family member of the week and for a lifetime.  I love you mom, and am always super duper wooper duper super duper good! 

  
  

  

  
  

                                              Proud mom pregnant with me  

  
  

  

  
  

                    Mom pregnant with Jason, me, and grandma

  
  

  

  
  

                           Jason and mom

  
  

  

  
  

            Mom and me, she decorated the whole apartment

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