Moms are the best

My mom and I have not always gotten along well. Moms will always be moms and recently living at home again, she can make me feel like a child again when she straightens up my clothes before I head off to work. Yet, now that I am an adult, I now realize all of the things that mom do for their kids just because they are mom. Every morning my mom wakes up and she makes me lunch to take to work. Not just your average peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but a soup-made with fresh vegetables. She makes sure to put an apple in with my lunch. Every day when I come home from work, she has done our laundry. She makes us dinner every night and won't let us even try to wash one dish. Funny enough-when we first moved back in with them, I would try on my clothes and think that I was gaining weight when my clothes were too tight! My mom had hemmed a lot of my clothes to make them fit better. One day last week I told my mom thank you for everything that she has done for us over the last six weeks and she said, "Someday when you are a mom, you'll do the same things for your kids." It makes me think about my future as a mom and what I'll be like as a mom. I can only hope that I'll be a good mom-one that loves my kids unconditionally and can only hope that they'll return that love to me. Today I talked with someone I work with that I've never even met and only have spoken with on the phone and through email-someone who lost her mother very recently. Speaking with her brought tears to my eyes because I could hear the pain through the phone at losing her mom. She said, "Your mom is someone that you can never replace." I tried to console her the best way that I could, but I knew that nothing that I could say could ever take the pain away of losing her mom-because she is right-there is no other love like that of a mother.