A Woman To Look Up To

My mom is definitely an inspiring woman. She is the mother of twins (my brother and I), and she is married to my father, enough said. I’m just kidding, but really she puts up with a lot. We moved to Austin, Texas, from Washington D.C. where she had lived for a two decades, because my father received a new position as assistant city manager of Austin. However, with the change of new city managers, my dad resigned leaving my mom to f be the breadwinner, and that’s how it’s been pretty much for the past eight years or so.  We all of course had to uproot our lives to make the move, but it was really tough on her. My mom loves the neighborhood she raised us in and has many best friends in D.C., with her family just a few hours away. But she was still able to get us all adjusted to our new lives in Texas and start a new home.  She is always balancing so much, and then on top of that this past year we’ve had a lot of intense family trauma involving my brother and my father and somehow she manages to keep it all together for the most part. We all have so much going on in our lives but she is always there for us, and I think that is really something to admire. She’s so selfless and cares for us so deeply that if I’m sick, it’s almost like she’s sick. I truly think she is a woman to live up to and I’m so proud to call her my mom.

Posted by Emily Chan

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