If You Really Knew Me

Nevertheless, it was challenging for a single mother to raise three kids without financial and emotional support. At that time my mother was a housekeeper, and she and my father divorced when I was six-years old. She is a tenacious women. Moreover, she is supportive, hardworking and possesses a magnificent sense of humor. While I was in school, my mother worked long hours and by the time I arrived home she barely had energy to cook dinner, or check out my academic progress. However, even when she was mentally and physically exhausted, she always cooked for me and my

From working several jobs at a time to make sure I had everything I needed, she became the reason why I was raised the way I raised. The lesson that “ I should treat everyone like the most important person in the world because I will never know when I might need them” was engraved in my head was owned by my mother. Sometimes she would tell me that she had holes in her socks and I knew it was due to most of her money going towards my private school tuition in order for me to be able to have the best education I could get. My mother is my background, my identity, interest, and talent. She is truly the one that has set me up for success, regardless of how fatigued or overworked she is. She is the person who truly defines who I am and who I have become to this

If you really knew me, you would know that I love, love, love to swim. They say you can’t live without water. It fills my soul with passion and my veins with fire. It is my escape, my safe haven, my home. I don’t swim because I want to achieve Olympic glory. I don’t swim because I want to be famous. I swim because it’s the only thing in my life that makes sense. Because I know that if everything else goes wrong, the water will always stay the same. I can always find my way home.

When asked if I had a background or identity that defines me,what automatically came to mind was my mom without a doubt.Yes I know, I'm sure you hear this a lot, kids talking about their parents and how amazing they are but I truly mean it and know that she is the reason why I'm pursuing my college process right now. I feel as if my mom made me who I am today. She carried me for nine months and went through all the pain and suffering that comes with having a child. My mom has always been number one since day one. She was the one who taught me to crawl, walk,talk,basically everything! When I was little and fell or when i was upset and crying my mom was always there. I can't imagine not having her in my life. I have

Finally, I am so proud of my mom because is the best person that I have been meeting. She is a good example for me, to continue my live and achieve my

I hear so many stories of my friends that merely dislike their moms, I’m so grateful to be placed with her. She is one of my best friends and is such a pure joy to be around. When people tell me that I am like her, oftentimes I am filled with happiness. I can only hope to be half the woman that she is. Yes, she is awkward, she is weird, she is embarrassing; but without those, she wouldn’t be Jenny Swenson. These attributes don’t make her any less lovable. She has a thirst to serve our Lord, which has greatly influenced my life. She reflects to me the power of possessing joy through even the hardest of trials. I wouldn’t be who I am without her.

Mothers are so often overlooked, children do not always realize it but mothers sacrifice a lot in order to make their kids happy and live a

Watching my mother live from pay check to pay check when I was young was difficult. It was always hard for my mom to keep up with other parents but, she still somehow managed to get me everything I wanted, and more. Even though I was too young to understand, I could feel the stress, and the struggles my mom faced every day. She was only 20 years old when I was born and, because of that she had no choice but to grow up fast. At such a young age, I saw the effects of being a single parent, and the ways it changed my mom. She not only had to be a young mother but, she had to find a way to replace the void of a father, or a father figure in my life. My mom was strong, independent and courageous. Growing up watching her live her dreams under all the circumstances she faced, made me want to strive for a better life for myself. Seeing how hard is was to live and to have enough

But for a long time through all the trials and tribulations I rejected her for so long. We argued left and right and had so many fights when I was younger. Being taken away from her was a big peel for me to swallow especially from my point of view. I thought I knew everything and I just rebelled every chance I got. Over the years, I’ve calmed down completely and learned to accept my mother for who she is and how she has been there for me; As a single mother. She may not have always had it, but one thing she did have was love and that’s all I was looking for. My mom is very generous, she cooks for me and all my siblings. I remember that used to be all she talked about is cooking for us as a family and seeing us eat together and laugh together. Me and my other siblings have been with my mom for about 6 or 7 years straight. After all this I have told in my autobiography this has made me stronger than ever. It has taught me how to be independent. Now I accept everything in my life and I can move on from it. As of right now I am 17 and I’ve had all my time to cry about it and tell God about it. Knowing that my mom is a single mother I want to give back to her and take care of her like she’s did for

You will have your own reasons for wanting to play a musical instrument. These can range from wanting to learn a new hobby, to really wanting to reach for a higher goal like a career in music.

Ludwig van Beethoven once said, “Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents.” Although not everyone can be the next Beethoven, learning a musical instrument can be an enlightening and fun experience. Many people who have carried on the hobby of playing a musical instrument into their adulthood started when they were young children. Starting practically anything when you are young allows you to develop in a different way, both mentally and physically, and you begin to discover your passion. Whether the hobby is a sport or cooking, it is almost a guarantee you will be highly skilled as time passes.

I have always looked up to her. Even though we have face hardships, financially, or emotionally, she always make sure that we do not stop. She had advocated that, we have to keep, figuratively, moving, or else we, as people, would never amount to anything. Further, I had inherited a vast amount of characteristics thanks to my mother. Some might be a little excessive. Like, how sometimes, I just have the dire, and intense compulsion to clean. That might not be bad, but, it sure is tiresome. On the others hand, I am grateful that I had acquired characteristics, such as being meticulous, and caring. This is all because I had an amazing person that I could look up to as a child. Withal, my mom was the one who had gotten my interested in a career in law. She had once worked as a sheriff, and a correction officer, and she had always seemed to enjoy her job. As a child, it seemed like one of the most interesting things to be, and eventually, I knew that I had wanted to be a person who worked in

There isn’t a better mom out there for me, you are my mom and nothing will ever, ever change that. You've battled battles with me, you’ve dealt with my so called “father” for seventeen years, you’ve always made sure that I was happy. Even if you weren't the happiest, you put my feelings first. You always made sure that I had everything that I wanted and everything that I needed.

Why did I take the time to learn so many? Simply because I wanted to. The first instrument I learned though, wasn’t my decision. My parents made me learn clarinet (it was the only instrument we had around), yet I wanted to play saxophone really bad. So I learned clarinet and learned to love it. But then when my parents surprised me the next year with a saxophone, and at last I could play the instrument that I truly admired, I went for it. I taught myself over the summer, and was just as good as everyone else when I returned back to school. A few years after that, I fell in love with the sound of finger picking on the guitar. So I borrowed an old guitar from a family member and taught myself. Then I not only wanted to create beautiful music from instruments, but from myself (my voice.) So I started taking voice lessons. And then I heard a song on the radio with a killer piano part and wanted to challenge myself to learn that part of the song on the piano. But then I just realized while I’m at it, I might as well just learn the instrument itself. So why did I learn so many instruments? I just wanted to. I enjoy a good challenge. Although learning instruments has always just made sense to me, I can challenge myself daily to new music and different

I really like guitar so much but I can't play. Guitar is the best instrument for me. I try to practiced lots of time but I can't play. Playing the guitar is an enjoyable endeavor especially when you do it with friends. Moreover, it is both spiritually and socially rewarding as it gives you a sense of self-worth. However if I have my own guitar, I will practice everyday.