yeah that's her nickname- mamma bear. a pretty rubbish one seeing as it was given to her by her three children who are of a much higher literacy rate than that: 19, 16 and 14. but still, it's what we call her and she accepts it. however much she moans.
now i'm the middle child. and no i'm not going to go on about how hard life is (even though it is!), but for any other middlers out there; you know what it's like. you always feel like your parents look past you a little bit, because everything they've been through with the first is special because it's new. and everything they've been through with the last is special because it's the final time. us, well we're neither.
but although i sometimes feel like that's happening, i always know that it isn't really. my mum tries her absolute hardest to treat all three of us the same. and i'm in totaly awe of how she does it.
i mean we're not the easiest three people to live with. we're messy, we argue, we nearly never do anything right. but she loves us anyway. she deserves a meddle.
and not even just for that. she deserves one for being her. on top of looking after us three, she runs herself ragged looking after her widowed mum, takes care of her father-in-law and ill brother, AS WELL AS suffering from multiple sclerosis.
i mean, i think about giving everything up everytime i get a spot (yes, ok over-dramatic teenager alert but still) so i have no idea how she manages to pull herself through everything.
but whatever it is that she does, i'd be lost if she stopped doing it. i couldn't imagine a life without my mum and the thought of ever losing her terrifies me.
so now, i am going to go downstairs, make her a cup of tea and tell her i love her. i know it's not much (remember people i'm only 16) but it's something.
"As a mum of two daughters myself, I know the relationship between mothers and daughters is unique and precious - different for every one, but just as important. In my new book, Things I Want My Daughters to Know, Barbara has to leave her four daughters to grow up without her, and the sisters each have to find their own way to move on without their mum. It's a bit of a weepie but I hope it'll make you feel proud to be a mother, a daughter or a sister."
Things I Want My Daughters To Know
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