There is no one like your mom...

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about my mom, so many times I wanted to pick up the phone to tell her something funny or something I just heard and then the overwhelming sadness hits me that she is no longer here. My mom was my best friend, she was my role model of how to become a strong independent women. She taught me to be kind to others not by her words but by her actions, how I watched her do that every day, give of herself, be there and be a friend to so many people. I learned hard work from her, she worked 11 at night to 7 in the morning serving mostly drunks in the dinner in my home town. She would then come home , get me ready for school and do things with my dad to fix up our broken down property, which they were constantly spending all of their time and money on. My mom never went out, never got her nails or hair done, if I look back at pictures she had three outfits, her work uniform, her ratty clothes to fix the house or one brown dress that she wore to every occasion we had, that was it. To her it was more important to give me all I needed, to keep fixing up our delapaded old house and to pay the bills. We were never rich but we were rich with love and kindness in our home, I always knew I was loved. She worked 6 days a week and on the seventh she worked on our house but every Tuesday her night off she would take me to Sullivan's the department store to window shop and then for hot chocolate and toasted pound cake with vanilla ice cream, there we would sit and talk for hours. She took care of my mean, nasty grandma until she died, took care of my step dad until he died and took in many people into our family who didn't have families of their own. She was little in statue but had a big Italian mouth and would tell you like it was in a New York minute. She was funny and loud and a smart ass (and you wonder where I get it from) Her family was the most important thing to her and I always knew how much she loved me and my girls. I have learned to be a mom, a friend and mostly importantly a good person from my mom, I only hope that one day my girls feel the same about me. Mom I miss you so very much but I know you are smiling down on me today just as I know you do every day because that is who you were and will forever be. I love you..... www.beachbodycoach.com/treadmilltreats www.treadmilltreats.wordpress.com