My Mom

I don't know what I'd do without my mom ... simply stated. She's got good days and bad days with her battle, and on the bad days I'm reminded of it ... cancer. It makes me sick to my stomach to think about what this disease has done to the people I love. It took my grandma away from me way too young and now its an everyday thing for my mom. I can't even imagine what she goes through or what she has been through, she's the toughest person I know and yet she still manages to do what most "healthy" people would only dream of doing. Riding her bike 20+ miles, taking care of a household of people and animals, all in a days work!
I talk to my mom constantly throughout the day. I usually get multiple emails, some just quick questions, some long funny stories about the animals or crazy relatives, either way I enjoy them so much! Between the 20 or so span emails I get it's always nice to see my moms name pop in my inbox. It's wierd when she gets busy and I don't get an email from her all day, then I always call and say Hey I didn't get an email from you! hahaha ... I've kept all of her emails for the past few years, I now have 11 pages of emails in my "mom" section. One day I'll have to go through them all - what a task that will be! So even though we're far away I'm thankful we have email and phone calls that it feels like we're not so far away ... except when you want to give the other person a giant hug, sometimes an email just won't do.