#worldstoughestjob

Happy mother's day. I could do a gigantic tyrannosaurus rex sized post about mother's day and being a mother, but for now I'll just stick by saying that motherhood is much more than a full-time job. Some of you may have watched this video. For those of you that haven't, it is a bunch of job interviews for an extremely difficult job - no time off ever, working 24/7, constantly taking care of somebody else. At the end of the interview, the interviewees find out that millions of people are doing this job - mothers. Their reactions change from "are you crazy?!" and "is this even legal" to overflowing gratitude for what mothers do. If you haven't watched it, I encourage you to click on the link and do so. 

While searching for the video to view it and share it with you, I came across an article that had been written about how motherhood really isn't as important as we say it is. Let me tell you how important it is to me. My mom changed my life. My mom gave me life. My mom more or less gave up her own life. My mom gave birth to me, raised me, taught me the gospel and everything else I needed to know, and so much more. She spent countless nights during junior high and high school holding me while I cried, trying to comfort me and help me learn from each experience. She has spent hours looking for ways to help me fight my battles and even fighting some of them for me. The time and money she has put into me - doctor and dentist visits, soccer camps and games and teams, gymnastics camps, dance lessons and performances and competitions and costumes, helping me pay my rent and tuition, driving me all over the state, going on and helping plan dance tours, etc, etc, etc. 

I can't imagine life without my mom. She is my cheerleader and my support and one of my best friends. I remember when I first tried out for a triple A soccer team. At the end of tryouts, she walked up to me with a big smile on her face and asked me, "so, do you want to do it?" I remember when I got my ACT score back and we freaked out together because I got a 28. I remember calling her to tell her I made BYU's back-up touring team. My mom has been at my side through it all. With me, she has relived high school heartbreaks and fights with friends, and basically all of life up through age 18. It's my mom that's been with me for countless doctor's appointments and dentist visits and parent-teacher conferences and dance competitions and tryouts. And that's only for me. She's faced each of my brother and sister's challenges with them, and continues to do so. Besides being the mom of a middle school student, high school student, and college student, she is an elementary school librarian and young women's president, and she still finds time to play in the occasional piano quartet and bike in a race for 40 miles. Watch this clip, and you will see what my mom is like. I love my mom so much, and I am so grateful for her!!!   

My mom is my super hero. It isn't until we stop to think about the many things that our mothers have done for us that we truly realize them and how grateful we are. It's not easy for me to express my words verbally, so mom, I hope you're reading this. You are the perfect mom for me, and I am so grateful for everything that you've done, even if I disagree with it and fight you on it sometimes. I am so lucky that Heavenly Father let me have you as my mom. I love you so much.