Por qué queremos a mamá
Un tributo a lo que más apreciamos de nuestras mamás. Ahora te toca — adelante, es anónimo, sin trampas. Este es solo un lugar para compartir el amor.
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I mean, she's my mom. She did everything for me. How could I not love her. I know for a fact that all of the reading and singing we did together literally made me smarter and led to great success in life. I love you, mom. Always, forever. -A
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She read to me every night even after twelve-hour shifts. I thought that was normal. It wasn't. It was love with its sleeves rolled up.
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Mom kept the house warm on a waitress's tips and never once made it feel like sacrifice. I didn't know we were poor until college. That's a magic trick.
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Every scar on her hands has a story and most of the stories are about us.
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My mom raised four of us alone and somehow each of us grew up certain we were her favorite. We still argue about it at her table every Sunday.
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I called her crying from my dorm and she drove three hours with a pot of soup. Didn't ask what was wrong until I'd eaten.
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I watched her go back to school at 45, textbooks on the kitchen table next to my homework. We graduated the same spring.
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When Dad left, she never said one bad word about him to us. Took me twenty years to understand the discipline that took.
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Mamá aprendió inglés en la cocina del restaurante donde trabajaba, para poder hablar con mis maestros. Nunca faltó a una reunión.
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Every birthday she tells me the story of the night I was born, and every year the snowstorm gets a little worse. Never stop, Mom.
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She sewed my prom dress from a pattern she 'adjusted a little.' It was better than anything in the store. She still has the pins.
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She still slips a twenty into my coat pocket when I visit. I'm a grown adult with a mortgage. I've stopped fighting it. I'd miss it too much.
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She says 'drive safe' like it's a spell that works. Honestly, the evidence is on her side.
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Mom's answer to everything was 'we'll figure it out.' Broken arm, broken heart, broken transmission. We always did.
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Mi mamá guardó cada carta que le escribí desde el servicio militar. Las tiene atadas con un listón azul.
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The woman can hear 'I'm fine' over the phone and know exactly which kind of not-fine it is.
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Grandma raised me when Mom couldn't, and Mom spent the rest of her life making it up to both of us. This wall is for both of them.
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She taught me that soft is not the same as weak. Softest person I know. Strongest person I know. Same person.