Week 15 (based off Week 7)

Today a women stands crying. She sent her first child to school in 1995. Today her fourth child is going off to school in 2010. Her other 2 children are scattered in there amoung the missing years. Today she crys because her baby is off to school and she crys because she is now finally free to pursue other thngs.

She has been through the seperation of her parents. Has had step-parents and step-siblings added to her family. She has been in and out of relationships ever since I can remember. She has been through 2 divorces and is finaly in a committed, loving relationship with her 3rd husband. Through the years she has brought 4 wonderful children into the world. I may not be blood related but she has brought me into this world as well.

I spend more time at her house then my own. I still do that. Her only daughter is my best friend and will be til the end of time (so far we have been friends for 16 years). This wonderful women considers me her other daughter she always wanted. I think of her as my 2nd mom. She has taught her 4 children, plus me to tell the truth and why that is important. She also teaches us to be kind, honest, loyal, loving human beings. She also taught us the value of respectfulness, and to know right from wrong. She is a role model for her own children and myself.

No matter what she faced as a child nor as a young adult; she doesn't let that effect what or how she treats others. She teaches that to us as well. She loves all of us no matter what, she treats us how she would want to be treated, and she nurtures us in the motherly ways moms do. She listens, cares, gives advice, handles heartaches, and boo-boos. She has become the second-mom children dream about having and I am so glad that she is mine.

This wonderful women care for us when we are sick or injured. She feels horrible when any of us are in pain of any kind. She sits with us and listens to our problems and then helps us come up with a solution. This is her way of nurturing. I see this women as my second-mom because she never judges me or my life. She loves me no matter what. She listens to me about anything and everything. She treats me as a person. As well as she always says that I may not be her biologial daughter but I am her daughter and family, through and through.

She is a one-of-a-kind women who is a daughter, sister, aunt, wife, mother, grandmother, friend, family-friend, soul-seacher, and MY second mom. I will love her always and forever no matter what. God Bless this women as thy enter my life.