DONT RUSH IT

Dear teenagers that are about to be 18 & swear up and down that they’re going to move out when they get of legal age,

Don’t do it.

Don’t rush it.

Don’t get me wrong, guys. I love finally having the freedom I know my mom would’ve never gave me as long as I lived under her roof (my mama is strict). But I do NOT love the bills. Your moms did so much for you that you didn’t even notice. You really will become best friends once you grow out of that stage where you just wanna be a brat to her, because you feel like she’s being unfair about something. I know it seems like she’s being unfair now, but later in life you’ll thank her and you’ll understand exactly why she did those things.

And my mom and I still fight sometimes, but we always make up at the end of the day. She texts me and my sisters EVERYDAY and EVERY NIGHT a “good morning I love you mostest” & “goodnight love you sweet dreams”. She has never forgotten. There has not been one night my mom hasn’t texted me goodnight.

I’m also epileptic. So I have to take medicine every morning at 6am, and she will text me just in case my alarm doesn’t go off and if I don’t text her back within 5 minutes, she’s calling.

I am a HUGE baby when I have a stomach illness, which is right now. And every time I’m hugging the toilet, I think back on all of the stuff my mom did for me. I lived with her until a few months after my 19th birthday, I was her grown adult college daughter. She would hear me get sick at 2 or 3 in the morning, and she would come in the bathroom with a cold wash cloth, tums, and a cup of water. And she would sit there with me until I felt a little bit better. And then she would get ready for work. She lost sleep, just to take care of her grown adult daughter that could’ve easily pushed through it and take care of herself.

When I had my ATV accident, she was up every 2-3 hours, making sure I didn’t need more pain meds or something to drink or to reposition.

And everyday, I regret treating her the way I did when I was a “know it all” teenager. My boyfriend won’t do all these things for me, even as my husband someday he wouldn’t.

Don’t rush it, guys. Take life one day at a time and enjoy every second.