Ten things

Part of anyone's journey in life is the relationship that they build with their parents. My relationship with my mother has been strained to say the least. We have reconciled our relationship to being two adult women. We are both mothers and she is, obviously, the grandmother to my three children. We don't rehash the past anymore or try to heal old wounds really. I'm not sure if we are supposed to or not. Where we are works for right now. I did figure, though, that a good way to view who my mother was/is to me would be to make a list of ten things I feel she did right.

1. Getting me involved with activities at both our local library and YMCA.
2. Ballet
3. Ceramics classes (which I think I may have actually hated at the time)
4. Short-lived piano lessons
5. Softball
6. Summer workbooks
7. Taking me to programs at her school
8. Home cooked meals practically every night until the meltdown
9. Giving me freedom and independence to explore the neighborhood we lived in
10. Taking us on amazing family vacations, even after the meltdown

For these ten things, I am grateful.