This week I’d like to tell you about one of the most inspirational people in my life, my mother. I won’t divulge her age on the internet but I will say she’s experienced more in her lifetime than most people I know.
Raised in London, England she lived through WWII while just a young girl. Sent away from her family to escape the bombs she spent five years living with strangers in the country. She married my father, started a family and ran a store by the time she was twenty-one. Nine years later she and my father sailed with their two children and a steamer trunk to America hoping to make a better life.
She raised four children. She helped my dad start and run his own elevator company. She survived the death of her husband at the age of sixty and won her own battle with breast cancer at seventy. Nothing seems to keep her down.
My mom has stayed positive through some of the hardest battles imaginable. She’s one tough cookie but she’s also got a heart of gold. When life starts getting her down she finds a way to pick herself up again. If she can’t find a friend to lean on she reaches out and makes a new one. She inspires me to make the most of whatever life gives me to deal with, good or bad. Thanks mom! I love you!