I want to be like my Mom when I grow up!!!

Well, I officially fail at blogging. I have been a Sophomore at ECU for a month now and I haven't posted anything about. However, this is all going to have to wait.

I am posting today about someone that is very important to me. My mom turned 40 years old today!!! My mom is my role model, my confidant, and my best friend.

In honor of my mom's 40th birthday, I am going to make a list of 40 things that I like most about her:

1. She thinks of others before herself. My mom is one of the selfless people I know. When someone needs her she drops everything and goes.
2. She tolerates my 15 million calls a day. I will call home 3 times in a row, with only 10 minutes in between each call (I forget to tell her things) and she still answers and listens to what I have say (and most of the time she listens with a happy heart! ).
3. I can tell her anything. My mom most often always has good advice and gives it whether I want to here it or not.
4. She makes me tatortot casserole on my birthday every year even though she doesn't like it.
5. She loves Jesus with all her heart. I can go to my mom with any spiritual topic and she helps me understand. If she doesn't understand, she looks for the answer and then explains it to me.
6. She loves Dr. Pepper and passed the Dr. Pepper gene down to all her children.
7. She wants her family to be healthy. She prepares, cooks, and researches new healthy recipes for us to eat (even if we don't like them sometimes).
8. She drives all of us everywhere we need to go. 
9. My mom is an amazing role model. I want to be just like her when I grow up.
10. She cannot stand my dog, but my dog loves her.
11. She comes to everything her kids do: gym meets, concerts, plays, inductions into the honor society, piano recitals, football games, basketball games, goat shows, and even prom!!
12. She gets really excited when my dad gives her flowers!
13. She doesn't like surprises and does everything she can to avoid them.
14. She loves organization and cried when her label maker broke!
15. She loves my daddy and respects him.
16. Her most famous saying is "If it was easy, everyone would do it!"
17. She doesn't like to cook or do laundry!!
18. She is the most AMAZING birthday party planner ever. 
19. She has a heart for orphans and Africa.
20. She encourages us to do our very best no matter what!
21. She always wears shoes. I am pretty sure she sleeps with shoes on!!!
22. She loves to admire our house.
23. Her favorite Disney movie is "The Rescuers".
24. She loves to have family time.
25. She isn't afraid to state her opinion.
26. She always knows just what to say, exactly when I need to hear it.
27. She didn't want to have any kids when she was growing up and now she has 4 of them!! :-)
28. She loves to read. She always tells me the latest books she has read and if I would like them or not.
29. She takes me to movie midnight premiers!!!
30. When she puts her mind on something, she gets it done.
31. She will always be our biggest cheerleader.
32. She is very protective of us.
33. She likes to include me during family time even though I am at school.
34. She shares my love for Hot and Spicy Cheeze-Itz with Chocolate Milk!!! :-)
35. She is the best teacher anyone could ask for.
36. She is a trooper when it comes to my meltdowns. When I call upset on the phone, she knows just what to say to calm me down.
37. She is close with her siblings. I hope that my siblings and I will be as close as she is with her siblings.
38. She loves her daddy. Her dad lives beside us and it is one of the best things in the world.
39. She lets us be ourselves (to some extent). She lets us express our own individual styles in the sports we play, in the (modest) clothes we wear, and the activities we do.
40. She is the best mom ever. No one could ask for a better mom. I am so thankful she is mine!!!

Happy Birthday, Mom!!! I am so thankful that God chose you to be my mother.