This past week was my mom's spring break. And yet, when I woke up for school in the mornings, she was already up. She was already cleaning and helping get my siblings and I ready for school as I lazily brushed my teeth and threw on a sweatshirt. During the day, she'd text me and ask if I needed anything from the store or ask if my siblings and I were interested in taking a college tour somewhere because she could set it up for us during the day.

Then, we would come home and the house would be cleaned, and she would be running around doing whatever she could to keep everything as great as she could. And, most strikingly of all, she would do it all with a smile. I don't know how she does all of it; she truly must just be superhuman. She balances being a teacher, mother, friend, and family member so incredibly well. No matter how busy she is she always finds the time for everyone.

She loves each person in her life with all her heart; she will constantly have moments of "appreciation from afar," as I like to call them. Just a few days ago, my dad had went to walk ahead and she just looked at him from across the crowd and said "that's my guy!" in a wonderfully happy voice. It would be a moving moment and then the topic would change, most likely to a joke of some sort: most recently the "dad and all his buddies" joke, and my mom will laugh until her stomach hurts over it.

That's another great thing about her, she has a wonderful sense of humor. She is always able to make me laugh, even when I'm being melodramatic for the millionth time and I don't think I can do whatever it is I'm struggling with. She is always able to push me when I don't think I have it in me to accomplish all my tasks. She reminds me to keep working and doing the best I can do at each and every thing I do, and she most definitely leads by example. I am so inspired by and in awe of her, and I could not be more lucky to call her my mom. I love you!