Back when I was a typical eight-year-old brat screaming "I hate you's" and "You're so unfair's" to my mom after not getting my way, I never would have guessed that she would turn out to be the best friend I would ever have.

It was around November, two months into my freshman year of college, and I had just gotten off the phone after the usual daily phone call with my mom. And I just stopped and thought to myself how cool it was that I felt like I had just gotten done with a call catching up with a friend, and not just talking to my mom. All of a sudden she was the one I wanted to talk to about good news, bad news, a story about a new guy I'd met, an annoying paper I had to write for class. I started calling her to complain about everything from a bad grade I'd gotten on a project, a small argument with a friend, things that I would never have told her before. All of a sudden I wasn't scared to tell her about my drinking habits, a boy I was interested in, things of that sort. Now when I brought things up like that, we just laughed about it together.

Now granted, we had always been kind of close. It's hard not to be when you're the only two girls in the house and have two boys to deal with - you tend to team up and stick together. But I had never told her every single detail of my life before. Now I found myself calling her at least once -sometimes twice- every single day.

With regular friends, you never really know what's going to happen. If you're going to get in a fight, or just stop talking to them in general, if they're going to end up turning on you, stabbing you in the back or something like that. Your mom is pretty much stuck with you for life, and she kinda doesn't have a choice in the matter (sorry mom). She might get mad or annoyed with you once in a while but she has to stick around. She's literally a permanent best friend in your life, without you even having to try.

So I guess the point of this article is to not take your mom for granted, even at an early age. It took me far too long to realize how amazing a friendship like this is, and I wouldn't give it up for anything now. So happy mother's day mom, and thank you for being my best friend.