So, today is a totally beautiful spring day. It's the kind of day my mom would have loved to have been outside. She loved yard work - and any kind. I remember as a kid, hating to do yardwork, and not just a little bit, but really and absolutely hating it. Not mom, she loved gardening, pulling weeds, being in the dirt and mud, planting flowers and working on making her yard look perfect.
I don't hate yard work so much anymore, I find that I love the smells of fresh cut grass, the sounds of lawnmowers in the neighboring yards, the freshness of the spring air. I love to plant flowers in May and watching them bloom and grow thru spring and summer. And I know exactly where I got that. Mom.
She instilled so much in me as a kid and I am only now beginning to see it. I love to create - whether it be cooking, crafts, making jewelery, scrapbooking, gardening. . . These are all things that she loved. I never in my life have known a more hard working woman. She worked harder than some men I know. Mom always had some type of job, not the 9 - 5 type job that I know,. She had her own hair salon, she ran a day care, she ran her own house cleaning business, and was a full time mom.
Through watching her work ethic in life, I have learned a great deal. I feel like I give my most in my job, in my family as a mother and wife and in my everyday life. And I have her to thank for her it all.
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