Happy Mothers Day!

Been busy this week so Ive been quiet.  Not a nad thing but I wanted to give a shout out to moms...mine & all the other ones out there!!

Some of my favorite Mom memories....

• Standing in the middle of mine & my sister's room with a yellow carbon receipt in her hand yelling "I KNOW I paid for carpeting in here...LOOK I have the receipt, it says it right here that I paid for carpeting!!! I want to SEE it. NOW! Get all of the crap off the floor ~ and DO NOT just cram it in the closet because I paid for carpeting in there too ~ and FIND MY CARPET! I do not know how you live in this mess. CARPET! NOW!
• Sneaking into the kitchen to steal pie dough cookies out of the cupboard with my sister (again...we got into a lot of trouble...) all night long cuz ya know, mom definitely wouldnt notice that when she went to bed there were 20 and when she woke up there were 6...
• Completely thrashing her kitchen flinging pumpkin guts from one end to the other while carving pumpkins at Halloween and lining up for pics in front of our lit up jack-o-lanterns
• Blowing up an egg in the microwave that my sister & I tried to hard boil {note to others: this is a bad friggin idea...just dont do it!} that in turn blew the door off said microwave and across the kitchen and splattered egg drop from the ceiling down, like dripping off the ceiling fan, a just ridiculous mess.  Dad coming home & freaking out and mom just smiling, overseeing clean-up and when Dad walked away saying "Dont worry about it girls, I wanted to get rid of that thing anyway, now I get a new microwave!"
• Telling her when I was around13 that I swore to god the only reason she had kids so was that shed never have to sweep the stairs or clean a bathroom again and her just laughing at me as she shook her head and walked away.
• Telling her that I wanted to skip college and go to a Culinary School and why...and her telling me to go for it, that if I was sure this was what I wanted then that was what we would do. And we did.  And a year later when I told her I wanted to move 2000 miles away to work at a hotel at 18 years old her doing everything she could to make sure I didnt fail and that I was as set up as I could be.  
• And while I was gone for 2 years, on my only trip back home, when I was so miserable being away for a gazillion different reasons, when all it would have taken for me to not get on my flight back to Colorado was her telling me it was ok to not to and that it was ok to stay home she didnt. She didnt give me the easy out, even though I know she wanted to so badly, she let me do what I knew was the responsible thing and she put me on that plane...and thank god she did, that 1 decision would have effected everything in my life right now...and I like where I am.

Thank you mom. I know those 2 little words dont look very big...but they pack a powerful punch.  thank you for helping me learn to be who I am, thank you for being there for me at every turn, thak you for being you, thank you for being my mom.

Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there...what you do makes your kids who they will be.