November 23rd, 2009...

Mom, originally uploaded by Melissa is Magenta.

I can't wait for it to snow after Thanksgiving so I can go home and get a Christmas tree with the Momzilla and Scott. On Pandora.com I'm listening to the "Mannheim Steamroller" channel... (sigh) I sure miss my mom driving me to school at 6:45am when I didn't have my license yet. She would put on Mannheim Steamroller and we would sing the beats together and I would skip the songs that were sad so she wouldn't cry and think of grandma. Talking about this right now is making me tear up enough. Now that I'm more than 200 miles away from her I don't care that she made me get up at 5:30 in the morning so that she could be to work on time. I don't care that traffic was bad after school was done when she came to pick me up because I will never forget that time I spent with her. I miss her lots and lots now even though I talk to her almost everyday. Even being able to hear her say "I have to call you back, I'm in a meeting! I love you bye!" is totally okay with me.

I know that everyone thinks they have a rockin' parent. Whether you think you have the best mom in the world or the best dad or even the best grandparents. It's all false. I, Melissa, do have the best mom in the world.

I remember moments I shared with my mom when I was younger that I'll try to repeat someday when I have children of my own. She's always believed in me no matter what the situation, even when I was wrong. Thanks mom, you're my favorite person in the world and I appreciate you and our friendship more than you could ever know. I LOVE YOU! Thanks for always trying as hard as you can to make life livable for me and sorry for taking it for granted when I was younger. Without you I would never ever be the person I am right now.

P.S. I never told you that a month after we got the new carpet in the living room I got blue paint on my sock and tracked it onto the new white carpet. I got it most of it up before it sank in, thank God; but if you still look hard you can see where it was. It's in front of the couch on the right hand side. I'm really sorry and glad you never noticed. =)