Ten Things Thankful for my mom. Who looks 44.
Ten Things Thankful about my dear mother.
I can’t just dive headfirst into this post without saying my mother and I are very different in some ways.
She came out with a T-Square clutched in her bitty fist.
I hyperventilate at the thought of having to draw a straight line. Now I love to draw, but the thought of having to draw anything precise sends me searching for a brown paper bag.
Sooo.
Ten Things Thankful about my Dear Mom:
10. So thankful you stopped asking when I was going to host coffees.
9. That you used your powers for good and wallpapered countless walls, in countless of my houses. Painted countless cabinets and helped me clean out all my cr@p when asked. Though my albums were not such items. Nor did they need to be donated to the Orlando Rescue Mission to hang on the wall of some other midlife crazy woman and not mine.
Jesus says to forgive and I have.
8. Jesus. You always took me to church and modeled faith.
7. Let it go. You can’t let things go, but darn it. I love you for saying that you can.
6. Can I let things go? Seems I have a little problem about you asking if I’ve hosted any coffees or the owner of my complete ZZTOP and Gap Band LP collection.
5. Thankful that you were the best mom in the history of moms in cleaning up throw up.
For that I am in awe.
4. You were the best mom at ignoring my mess and let me super glue pictures of Carlton Fisk, Affirmed and Rod Stewart to my walls. My room was papered from ceiling to floor in everyone from Bucky Dent to Ron Guidry — heck, I’m sure Bruce Jenner was up there. This collage of cr@p must have killed you.
3. Thankful that you held it together when I got crazy bit by our dog when I was 12. All the surgeries that took. As a mom now, I admire how strong you were.
2. That you stopped making my clothes when I got to junior high. #thankGod.
1. That you were always there. To clean up vomit, make fried chicken on my birthday and field those sobbing calls from college when whats-his-name would break up with me for the 1,00000,001,0002.5 time.
You are such a strong woman. You need to relax at bit –– but you are the best.
And look 44.
