My mom has six kids, and that alone should be enough for her to be able to have an amazing Mother’s Day. But you could not possibly define my mother as just the lady with six kids. She goes beyond the call of duty more often than any one I have ever met. She not only has six kids at home, but seventeen at school. Yes that’s right, she’s a teacher; she teaches special needs children at a local elementary school. This is not normal teaching either. She has put together an individual plan for each student, and meet with them every day in groups of two or three, rather than being able to speak to a class at a time. She has no assistant, and three times the work load of an average teacher. 

     Right when she gets home from school, instead of relaxing and complaining about a rough work day, she helps my little brothers with homework and makes sure everything around the house is in order. One might think that a woman with this much work to do must have a tremendous amount of help from her children. Well I contritely admit that this is not true. We do not help nearly as much as we should and let’s just say those eight or more loads of laundry every week and load of dishes every day don’t just do themselves. My mom is not a complainer but a doer.

     Okay, you say, she does all this work, but how is that helping her children? Well she doesn’t only work for this family. She makes sure that our home of five boys and a girl doesn’t sink into a horrific stage of depravity. She is also the religious linchpin of the house. Without her, I probably would not care nearly as much about God and about where I will be after I leave this earth. She has taught me not just to be, but to think and do.

     I can honestly say that my mother has made me into the young man I am today. I have an overwhelming love for her that I am not able to depict by just saying “I love you.” If you are unsure if she has really had an impact on me, take this into consideration. I am a writer, and she is too. I am a singer, she sings in a trio, and writes the most inspirational music I have ever heard. I am an avid reader, as is she. I am extremely serious about my education, and can remember her reading with me every day after school in first and second grade. My mother has inspired me to do things that I didn’t think I would ever have the courage to. You may call me a momma’s boy, but in response I will say I am sorry that you are not, for through experience I have learned that there is nothing greater than the love of a caring mother.