Mary. Otherwise known as my Momma.

When I started doing this, I decided I wasn't going to include family because I have so many friends that I love dearly and want to write about. But on my way to Old Chicago tonight, I was flying through radio stations to find the next funnest song to listen to, and I stumbled upon an old Conway Twitty song- Tightfittin Jeans. I immediately felt like I was standing in their kitchen, the "old" kitchen, with the old wallpaper, the old floor, the radio up on the shelf, playing K102. And it makes me think of my mom.
I am so incredibly blessed over the moon and back over and over and over to have the parents that I have. They love their kids and their grandkids to pieces and it shows. How many people get laugh attacks with their mom? The kind where you're both crying you're laughing so hard and you just can't stop? Im sure I'm way over her head with my thinking some time- and I mean that in the normal "I'm out there" kind of way that I'm used to, but for all the crazy things I've attempted or done, she blows my mind with being supportive. She'll say how she feels, and then that's it, support! It's incredible. I talk to her so often most every day that I joke about it when I don't call her...doesn't she worry? How can she go on with her day without knowing what I'm doing?! HAHAHAHAH. : )
I am so lucky to have my mother be the first call I make when there is "news" of some sort. Maybe that's more normal than not? I don't know. I remember my mother in law talking about coming home from her mom's funeral, and going to the phone to call her mom to tell her about the funeral. OH! That sentiment rang right through me. That is exactly what it will be like for me, someday.
I appreciate what she went through as a parent so much more, I understand what stupid bratty teenaged kids can't understand now, I work from home like she did, and I understand what that must have been like for her now. This relationship is incredible to me because while I am an adult now (really? am i?) and I can relate to her as an adult, that is still my Momma, and when I'm mad, or when I'm sad, or when I'm glad, that's my call.
Today is their 39th anniversary. Isn't that amazing? How did they do that? And did they want to? <----- hahahahah! I'm just kidding. I'm only saying that I've only been married for 13 years and I know how hard that has been sometime. I haven't had to survive teenagers yet, or anything. 39 years!!!!! How many people can say THAT?! My parents are still together. Incredible. Cullen's parents are, too. Good role models!
I LOVE YOU MOM!!!!! Thank you for being such a good friend!!!!