My Family Members

Ok, so I came up with this idea...I am going to post what I love about my family members, and what makes them and my relationship with them special. I am going to start with my Momma because she is the one who reads my blog faithfully and got me started in the blogosphere.

Me and my Mom:

1. She raised me to love God and have a personal relationship with Him.

2. She has always done what was best for me, even when I flat out told her I thought she was being unfair (mostly when I was a teenager:p).

3. She has always loved me, no matter what I've done, and will always love me.

4. In my more recent years, she has become my best friend, and instead of butting heads over how much we are alike, I've embraced it and thoroughly enjoyed our similarities and shared interests.

5. She has always been there as fast as her feet, car, or whatever else she needed could get her there. She's been there through the most joyful times in my life as well as times of sickness and/or sadness. She has cried with me, laughed with me, held me and helped me back up

6. She got me through being diagnosed with diabetes at an early age and was the one who learned anything and everything she could about it, so she could take care of me and help me to learn.

7. She is my shopping buddy, I wouldn't choose anyone over her to go shopping with.

8. She taught me everything I know about being a woman, being a loving wife, and eventually a mother. She taught me how to be a southern belle, and how to cook and clean and take care of a household.

9. She has shown me what kind of mother I want to be to my children.

10. My mom loves her family with a passion.

11. She would drop anything if you needed to talk.

12. She always made my boo-boo's feel better and made being sick a little easier by making up a bed on the couch and serving us cold drinks over crushed ice, soup, scraped apples, and crackers. (She still does this by the way)

13. When I am living away from home, I talk to her on the phone everyday.

14. She has a servant's heart, she doesn't think she does, but she does. My mom does so much for others, and never thinks twice. Is always there to drive my grandmother somewhere or go with me to the dentist (which I went to today and am not very fond of), sit up at the hospital when family members are sick, sends cards to people who are celebrating or grieving, makes food for those who are going through hard times...the list goes on and on...

15. She has taken Jason in like he is her own son, not just a son in law.

16. Momma loves my daddy and honors him like the Bible instructs us to do.

17. She gave up being a career woman to raise her 3 daughters and homeschool 2 of us, when Ashley and I were in school, she always picked us up at the end of the day and had snacks already made when we got home.

18. She has been at every graduation, ceremony, sporting event, and concert that any of us have ever been in. Taking loads of pictures.

19. And last, but not least, she loves the Lord and has the love of God in her heart. And, it shows through to everybody around her.

So, these are just a few of the things that make my mom so special. I love you, momma.