For My Mama

Today is my moms birthday and I just wanted to take some time to talk about what a wonderful person she is. My mom has been through a lot of tough times and she still manages to be our "Yellow" person. My mom is sunshine. I have always loved my mom, I haven't ever thought for a second about how a different mom would have been. My mom can never be replaced. My mom was the mom that all the carpool kids loved, all my best friends loved, and the mom I loved to go to the mall with. My mom loves to have fun and always wants everyone around her to be having fun too. My mom is so talented and I have always looked up to that, especially her musical talents. She has such a beautiful singing voice and it has always been one of my favorite things to listen to. My poor mom has been tortured by us kids her whole life. Never eating what she cooked (that might have been just me), always ruining our hair she so nicely combed, and running around the house screaming for hours like our hair was on fire (Which in some cases it was) while she was trying to take a Sunday nap. There is one thing that I will never forget we did to my mom and it is going to make it so that I never trust my own kids, karma. The DeLange side used to take a yearly trip up to the family cabin to hunt for Christmas trees. One night us kids decided to go sledding down the road, eventually that got boring so we decided to make a massive jump to go off of and this baby was huge. Also keep in mind that it was night so on top of being extremely dark out, the road was deadly with slick ice. After lots of arguing and threats of cutting off each others Barbie heads we all agreed that none of us would be the first to try. Fortunately for us we knew the perfect person to ask because she was always up for anything so unfortunately for my mom it was her that was suckered in. Let me take the time to point out again that it was dark and we may have accidentally on purpose forgotten to tell her that there was a jump at the bottom of the hill. We put her on the saucer and four tiny little kids started her down the hill while one of the older cousins sat at the bottom with a flashlight. She was flying, and laughing, that was until she got close enough to the jump when we knew she couldn't bail, the flashlight was flipped on just in time for her to see the jump and have her eyes open the size of her face before she took off. I don't think I have ever seen anyone fly so far, or have the rings of the saucer bruised into their butt. Thanks for all the fun mama, and always being such a good sport. Love you!