Carmen

Hello!

Finger life, finger

This post is dedicated to my mother on her special day...


It's amazing what you can do when you are required to act fast because the lives of many rest upon your shoulders.


I've been living in this country for 35 years and everything that I have, everything that my brothers have, I owed it all my to mother (my brothers too). This lady protected our lives from danger by moving here, she sheltered us, put food on the table and kept us safe for 35 years, actually for 40 odd years. I never was deprived of anything, whatever her kid wanted her kids got. Ask me about the $800 dollars synthesizer I got, the $50 dollar running shoes -back then it was a shit load of money-, the drum set, the two electric guitars, the amplifiers... and I could go on for a long time here.These were my toys, I am not counting the numerous trips we had to Plattsburgh New York or the trips we took to Florida on a short notice because the teachers were on strike, we even went to Mexico by car! This woman really made our lives a walk in the park, she gave us the best thing any mother could give her kids: Time!


 Now that I have kids of my own I realize that this is a very hard thing to do, food, shelter, gadgets, vacations and always keeping a smile even though inside your crumbling. So when I reflect on this I realized that I have a super mother, one that put her kids ahead of herself so that one day they would do the same.

From all of us

Thank you mom and happy birthday Guapa!