grocery shopping and I grab my receipt, I’m tempted to just throw it away when I get home because really… who is going to return GROCERIES? …..but for some reason, I always hang on to them because I know that you always do.  And sometimes when we’re going to bed… I just have so much to say and a million things to talk about that I just remembered at midnight and it drives Michael crazy.  I remember working on homework really late in high school and hearing you talk to Daddy while he tried to stay awake to listen to you.  I’m trying to get better at keeping the dishes from piling up in the sink and one day I’ll be able to have a large family calendar on our Kitchen wall to keep EVERYONE’s life straight. Hopefully one day I’ll have a litte girl so I can take her shopping for her first prom dress and patiently wait for hours in the dressing room while she finds her first two-piece bathing suit.  One day I’ll master the art of managing 4 other lives besides my own and still have time to fix dinner every night so we can eat as a family.  I’ll know how to handle teenage girl meltdowns and I’ll be able to sew anything back together.  Hopefully I’ll be a mom one day and I’ll get the chance to be everything you have been for me. Hopefully, as I keep getting older, Michael will continue to remind me that I’m turning into my mother because really, I consider that to be the greatest compliment.  I may have your fair skin and we may not love our noses…… but what I have learned and inherited from you has made me into who I am today and I’m so thankful for you Momma.  I feel like this should be a “Happy Mother’s Day” post but instead, it’s just a post on a random Monday to remind you that you’re wonderful and I love you.  Now if I could only adopt your spell-checking skill in my blogging… then I’d be set!

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