October 2, 2010- We celebrated my momma dukes 63rd Birthday! That's right 63 years! I think it's safe to say that my father, sisters, brother, & neices & nephews are blessed to have such a wonderful women in our lives...
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“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother”- Abraham Lincoln |
Growing up I always had this really weird vision of my mother, I always complained of how "she never understood me" how having me at such a late age was the cause of most of our disagreements (my mom was 35 when I was born) and I found myself relating more with my older sister because she "understood me". So through the years mom and I continued to have more & more fights some petty and some really serious when suddenly something slowly started to happen, something inside of me started to understand.. I started to understand that it wasn't that my mother didn't understand where I was coming from, it was that she was afraid to let me go and afraid that I might get hurt in a world that maybe I wasn't prepared to handle. I also started to notice that the only constant in my changing world was my MOTHER.. She was there for me through broken bones, harsh fights, accomplishments, failure and broken hearts.. When I was broken she slowly mended me back together and made me whole again..
Her life hasn't been the easiest; A wife at 15 and a mother at 18 she sacrificed her whole youth for her children. Looking back I realize that my parents didn't have much to offer us when it came to luxuries and extras but they did the best they could when it came down to providing for us. Now we're all adults married and my brother & sisters with children I think to myself "damn mom & dad didn't do too bad". Perhaps they didn't give us everything we WANTED in life, but they did give us everything we NEEDED and most importantly they gave us morals & values and those things could never be bought with any amount of money in the world!
Recently my relationship with my mother has improved more than I ever envisioned it would. I call her more times a day than I think she wants to talk to me, I tell her almost everything that happens to me in my daily life, my job and my marriage... We no longer see things mother to daughter but women to women and I can't even imagine a day without her and everyday before I go to sleep and when I wake up I make sure to thank god for giving her to me and ask him to continue to bless me with many years of her love...
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