Sneaky Mom
My mom is a wonderful lady. She loves to do things for people to make them happy. That often includes cooking or baking of some sort and she is known for her delicious homemade bread and her cinnamon rolls. She made my lunch for me until I was a senior in high school, she was constantly hosting and feeding people, and she made every holiday special. She also was happy to drive me anywhere I needed to go and once even drove three hours down to Pennsylvania to pick me up early from a special church camp I had gone to so that I could make it to casting day for the Hill Cumorah Pageant. I desperately wanted to be a dancer that year and that required being there for casting. Over six hours of driving in one day just to give me a chance to make my non-important dream come true.
Her nature is to take care of people and helping others is just what makes her happy. She has been here to help when each of my children were born and many other times when she would come to visit she would take me on a special grocery run or clothes shopping trip. She decided one visit that we needed a secondary freezer in order to have a better food storage so she bought us a freezer. It has been a wonderful blessing to my family even though I didn't appreciate how much we needed it before we had it.
One of the funniest examples of how much she loves to take care of us happened when my husband and I were still newlyweds. We were living in Provo going to school and had driven up to Boise (where my parents lived for 15 years) for Thanksgiving. While we were on our way up, the check engine light had come on. Our car was about 10 years old because it was the car I had driven as a teenager and had been our family car but my parents gave it to us when we got married. We mentioned to my parents that we would need to take the car in the day after Thanksgiving to make sure it was good for us to drive home and my mom insisted she would take care of it. My husband was trying to show that we were independent and grown up and married and didn't need our parents to take care of us anymore but my mom was having none of it.
We went to bed that night and my husband commented that we had the keys so there was no way she could take the car in the morning without us knowing about it, so he felt secure in having won the argument. However when we woke up in the morning the car was gone. My mom returned home an hour or so later with the minor problem fixed and huge grin on her face. Turns out she still had an old key to our car (since it had been their car) so she got up early and sneaked out so we wouldn't be able to stop her. She was so pleased with herself for having taken care of the problem so that we could relax and enjoy our day. It was quite comical how she had outsmarted us when we thought we had outsmarted her. She is generous and kind and sneaky, in a good and very funny way.
I love my mom and am grateful for the service she gave and love she demonstrated each and every day of my childhood. She set a wonderful example for me and has made me who I am today. I'm grateful for the life experience of having such a selfless and loving mother.
Her nature is to take care of people and helping others is just what makes her happy. She has been here to help when each of my children were born and many other times when she would come to visit she would take me on a special grocery run or clothes shopping trip. She decided one visit that we needed a secondary freezer in order to have a better food storage so she bought us a freezer. It has been a wonderful blessing to my family even though I didn't appreciate how much we needed it before we had it.
One of the funniest examples of how much she loves to take care of us happened when my husband and I were still newlyweds. We were living in Provo going to school and had driven up to Boise (where my parents lived for 15 years) for Thanksgiving. While we were on our way up, the check engine light had come on. Our car was about 10 years old because it was the car I had driven as a teenager and had been our family car but my parents gave it to us when we got married. We mentioned to my parents that we would need to take the car in the day after Thanksgiving to make sure it was good for us to drive home and my mom insisted she would take care of it. My husband was trying to show that we were independent and grown up and married and didn't need our parents to take care of us anymore but my mom was having none of it.
We went to bed that night and my husband commented that we had the keys so there was no way she could take the car in the morning without us knowing about it, so he felt secure in having won the argument. However when we woke up in the morning the car was gone. My mom returned home an hour or so later with the minor problem fixed and huge grin on her face. Turns out she still had an old key to our car (since it had been their car) so she got up early and sneaked out so we wouldn't be able to stop her. She was so pleased with herself for having taken care of the problem so that we could relax and enjoy our day. It was quite comical how she had outsmarted us when we thought we had outsmarted her. She is generous and kind and sneaky, in a good and very funny way.
I love my mom and am grateful for the service she gave and love she demonstrated each and every day of my childhood. She set a wonderful example for me and has made me who I am today. I'm grateful for the life experience of having such a selfless and loving mother.
It sounds like you are a lot like your mom. :)
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