Well, of COURSE my mom is going to show up on this list. In truth, I could probably make my mom the only recipient of my "thankfulness" for the entire year and it still wouldn't be enough to cover even half of what she has done for me. There are all the usual reasons (giving birth, taking care of me when I was sick, not drowning me when I was a teenager) but there is much MUCH more to my mom. For today I will just stick to this one simple, small by comparison to everything else thing: thank you for watching my kids so I can take my required training class. If it weren't for my mom, I would have to choose between keeping my job or caring for my kids. I'm glad I don't have to choose.
Ironically, she will be incredibly irritated when she receives my thank you note. In person she would say something like "Oh, please! Don't be goofy." She will say it because in her mind, moms do for their children what they do because they are moms and that is what moms do. Like a zebra having stripes. It has them because if it didn't, it wouldn't be a zebra. She will be further irritated that it is on this blog. "CAROL ANN!!!! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT PUT THINGS ABOUT ME ON THE INTERNET." Apparently not enough!
APPARENTLY NOT ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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