A Daily Dose of Gratitude

This week I am grateful for: My Mother

My mom has a problem: she is too nice. And she never stops giving. She’s one of those people who gives and gives without a second thought. She doesn’t do it to feel validated by others or receive instant self-gratification, she does it because she truly loves everyone and it makes her happy to make them happy. My dad both loves this quality and sometimes wishes she didn’t have it. He loves it because she is all the more wonderful because of it. However, he is slightly put out when they agree to give us kids a total of three presents every year for christmas, yet she decides to sneak an iPod into a stocking, or fills a bag with presents, places it under each stocking, and calls it “stocking overflow,” in addition to the three presents. Or she just gives up all pretenses of following the three-present-rule and each kid gets like fifteen presents (exaggeration alert). I really love and miss her so much. She really is the most wonderful mother ever, granted I’ve never had a different mother, but I can’t imagine anyone better. I know some kids say that they never want to grow up to be like their parents, but I actually do want to be like my momma. She’s the best.