My mom, my love, my role model

By Danielle Moody
College of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
October, 2010

Today's class was focused on role models and what qualities all role models share. Everyone brought in a story or a picture and a story of their role models and shared them with the class. It was a very emotional day, in my opinion, and many people even cried while talking about or hearing about a role model. Professor Dengting said "crying is not a weakness" but it tears show how much that person meant to you or how you love them.

My role model is my mother. She works two full time jobs, she is a nursing assistant until 3PM and then a full time mom the rest of the time. Sometimes she won't stop and sit down the entire day, just so she gets things done around the house and for me, my brother and sister, and my father. She'll go from work, to food shopping, to doing the laundry, to cooking dinner, to making sure my younger sister has done her homework, to making sure everyone has what they need for school the next day. She never gets a break, and at times I think she becomes very overwhelmed, but I think she secretly likes always being busy.

A few months ago she used a few vacation days to get a break from work; my sister had gone to Maine the same week, my brother and I have school full time and work part time, and my father works from seven in the morning until six o'clock at night. One night I came home from work and she was sitting in the living room watching television, finally getting some relax time, and she was complaining that she had nothing to do all day. Yes, my mom secretly thrives on being busy, she just won't admit it.