To some people, mothers can be like your best friends, or they can be your worst enemy. I consider my mom one of my best friends. I tell her a lot and I share with her many juicy, gossipy stories that go around.
Still, she embarrasses me once in a while, as all parents are apt to do. When I'm driving around with her and playing my type of music, she bounces around and tries to act cool. It's like she's trying to dance and keep up with the beat of the music. I hate that.
Sometimes we're in the mall and she starts walking like an Egyptian or starts trying to act like a teen-ager.
Ewww-we! That kind of stuff just irks me. My sister and I walk away as fast as we can when those kinds of things happen.
Oh, there's another thing. Sometimes when my friends are around, she tries to use the slang we use, but then she ends up using it the wrong way.
There are a few things that have happened between me and my mom that are pretty dramatic. When I was about three months old, she locked me in the car. She had to rush to the neighbor's house and call my grandpa and the whole time I was left there with the windows up, sweating and crying and screaming.
SOME of my friend say that their moms are overprotective. I agree. Moms just can't let go. A couple of my friends are dying to drive, but their moms are holding them back.
I think that moms are really lenient with sons. Guys pretty much can go anywhere and do anything. Most of my girlfriends say their moms give them the third degree, and this is true for me. I go through at least half a dozen questions before my mom lets me go out: "Who are you going with?"
I tell her I'm going out with "the gang" and she makes me name each of them. Then I have to tell her what time I'm leaving, what time a movie starts, ends, what time I'm eating dinner, etc. The questions could go on
forever.
I miss out on a few things because she's worried something bad might happen to me. There are dance clubs for teens 16 and older and my friends want to go but she says , "No."
Sometimes I wonder if I'll end up like my mom. She's cool at times, but sometimes it's a whole other story.
I'd like to believe that when I become a mommy I'll be super cool. I won't do anything to embarrass my kids. My mom likes to listen to her "oldies but goodies" music in the car. When she takes me to school she blasts the stereo and it's some Elvis song or something. I know some of those oldies are good, but Elvis isn't one of my favorites. When I'm a mother I'll put up with the new generation's music.
I wouldn't force my children to eat two carrots and one slice of tomato every day like I do, but I would definitely make sure they get all the nutrition they need.
My kids will be able to get their driver's licenses whenever I feel they're ready. I'll probably be very understanding when they start to drive.
OTHER people say that they appreciate their moms for cooking and cleaning, but being a mom goes way beyond just taking care of the domestic chores. Moms must deal with the stress of taking one kid here, the next kid there, getting pulled in every direction because we all have different needs and problems.
Kids don't necessarily appreciate all the trouble we put our parents through trying to please us and do what's right for us.
Even though I don't always show it, I appreciate my mother, especially for putting up with my bitchiness and complaining.
Hey mom, I love you a lot!