To all the hard working mommies!

dananmis22

Cathlete
Okay, I have been running into a lot of my old classmates since my DH and I have moved back to our old side of the city. Wow, my eyes have been opened!
I remember feeling like I wasn't able to do anything in high school. I had to work if I wanted a car, I had to earn privilages and allowances, I had to be home when everyone else could stay out as late as they wanted... I remember being so jealous of my friends whose parents did things for them, like buy them brand new cars, buy expensive clothes, give them allowances they didn't have to work for, etc. etc.
One girl in particular who got everything she wanted is so miserable! She has everything: a rich husbandwho loves and adores her, nice clothes, car, everything, a healthy baby, everything that could make her happy, yet her world holds no joy. She is so unhappy and ungrateful. She fights with everyone around her and acts like a spoiled brat still.
There is also another guy who just happens to live down the road from me who was the coolest guy in school. Every guy wanted to be him and every girl wanted to be with him. His parents are stinking rich, so he also got everything he wanted. They bought him the house he has now and gave him, yes I said GAVE, one of their businesses to run. His fiancee just left him because he is a womanizer and she caught him too many times. Guess what, he will probably never be happy.

Seeing them again really makes me appreciate my mom so much! she worked so hard to instill values in us, to teach us how to be happy and healthy human beings, both mentally and physically. I know how hard it must have been for her to always have to be the bad guy, but I appreciate her so much now! I bought her a card and wrote a letter to her telling her exactly how I felt.

So his is to all the mommies out there who believe in hard work, sacrifice, tough love, unconditional love, and God! Never give up, what you are doing will make a difference in your child's happiness!
 
What a nice thing to say! I have seen the same thing happen in my small hometown. It is funny how the popular people I went to school with never made anything out of themselves. Hard work definitely pays off.
 
I can definately relate!!!

I grew up in a small town that harboured lots of wealth. My family was middle-class as were several others in the town but there were LOTS who were upper class/rich folk. You knew in school exactly which kids' parents had the cash! I hated those kids. I was never the "popular girl" and I didn't care. I hung around with the nice kids, not the ones who had the nicest car or the threw the best parties...

My mom was stricter w/ me than a lot of my friends' parents were as well. I was usually the one who had to be home the earliest, etc. What I have found is that I now have an AWESOME relationship with my mom...she is one of my best friends as well as my mom...where these other kids just don't have that with either of thier parents.

~Wendy~

I smoked my last cigarette on March 17, 2004 at 10:00 pm!

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EDD: 05/19/05
 

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