My Mother-Mother's Day!

It's mother's day very soon. I don't even know when exactly that is, but I know it' s soon because I see all the mother's day signs in stores everywhere. I haven't decided what I am going to give to my mom. Have you?

My mother lives in Okinawa. She likes movies and we used to go see movies together, so I might get her a DVD or something. One time, I showed her "How Stella Got Her Groove Back." She really liked it. lol

If you have seen it before, you know what it mean. I like the movie, too, but it is one thing for a relatively young single woman to like the movie, but a whole different thing for a not-so-young married woman to like the movie. It has different meaning??

Anyways, my mom....she is such a great woman. I think I respect her over anybody else in the world. She is just amazing. She has always been working really hard.For example, right now, she is teaching 2 different classes at a college. She gives lectures whenever she's asked in different places such as schools, government offices, companies, etc on different topics. She writes for newspapers constantly. And some other stuff, too. Doing all that on the side, her main job is a president of a company. As long as I can remember, she always had multiple important jobs and she is always running from a job to another. In the society, there are some men like that who holds high position in the society and work hard and compete against others. But the people she competes against are men and they usually have wives who support them and take care of everything.

In my mother's case, she does all these, and on top of that, she has been a perfect wife to my father and a perfect mother to me and my 2 brothers. She always wakes up earlier than anybody else, she cooks a full Japanese meal, which means rice, miso soup, grilled fish, some veggies, etc. She feeds us, send us to school(when we were kids), do the dishes, start the washing machine, go to work, go grocery shopping, come home, cook dinner, fold clothes, help us kids with our homework, etc. Then, she starts writing her speech for the next day or something, while taking care of my father. I don't know how she can do this. She is a super woman!

Now,my mom plays golf as much as she can. Often, she leaves home around 5am and go to driving range and hits 200 balls, then, come home, cooks breakfast for dad(now my brothers and I live elsewhere, so there is only my parents living in their house.), then, goes to work. I might get her some golf gear. Pink balls? (I like pink balls but I keep losing them...)

It might sound like my mom is a really serious and boring person. Actually, she is funny as hell! I cannot explain how funny she is, but she is always telling stupid jokes and laughing to herself. My dad is also kind of like that, too, so they are funny together. Often enough, they make me feel embarrassed in public.

I often think about when she passes away. She is 65 now and who knows how much longer she gets to live. I am worried about that all the time. She is such a special person and I love her to death. I have a lot more things that I have to learn from her. I still haven't paid back for all the things she has done for me. I have to become somebody and make her proud of me. I want to make sure I do that before she leaves this place. I want to make sure that I will not regret when the time comes.