Dear Mom, Mom what I really want to say is I’m the luckiest girl in the world to have you as my mom. We love you with all our heart. Thank you for being you! Mom you always know how to make everyone feel special. You never judge people by what they have, everyone is given the same respect. But most of all you know how to put a smile on everyone's face that you would come in contact with. Couple favorite things you like to say to me: Is your hair shiny enough maybe you need to change your shampoo Wendy? Wendy, come to my closet I have to show you something I just bought today. The cantaloupe it’s like sweet as sugar it's like having candy. The corn it’s so sweet you think you're eating candy. Let me show you how to eat an artichoke it was my favorite food when I was a child. Wendy you need make up. Wendy you need lipstick put color on your face. Wendy your skin is beautiful. How much do you weigh? Wendy what are you making for dinner? Wendy (on every phone call we have together) how is Joseph, how is Jessica, how is Abigail? Wendy you were like raising 10 kids. Stories: One of the first stories that comes to mind is when I was 12 years old and you took me to the dentist in Philadelphia. We bumped into your old boyfriend on the street. Of course, like everyone else, the first thing he asked me was, “Don't you have a lovely mother?” I without thinking respond with, “yuck!” Now I wish I could take it back but that is what happened. When I was 14 you saw me hanging outside a 7-eleven at nighttime. You pulled up in your car and came outside to see what was going on and who I was hanging out with. Next thing I knew you grabbed my hair and said, “No daughter of mine will be hanging out side the 7-eleven.” It was so embarrassing I could not face my friends the next morning.
Shopping for my prom dress was also a funny story. We went to the mall and you found a beautiful sexy white dress in the lingerie area of the department store. Of course, I had a temper tantrum or like you say, “Wendy you were so fresh that day,” because I did not want some dress from the lingerie department for my prom dress. We shopped all day, and finally went back and bought the dress. It was my favorite dress for years. During my last year in high school I met Max. That’s when you gave me advice on how I should dress for my first date with him. You told me to dress like a college girl to meet him which meant wear your khaki pants, plaid shirt and don’t forget the vest. He took one look at me and thought I was the biggest nerd he ever met. When you helped me write my first letter to Max. You said you had a great idea. You told me to draw a wishing well and we’d scotch-tape a quarter on to the paper and tell max to make a wish. I’m surprised he married me When we went shopping for the wedding dress. We fell in love with the first dress I tried on. Back then you and dad were still just getting things going in the business and it was hard to spend the money for the dress. So like every shopping we have ever done together we looked in every store in south Florida for the best price and sale (for us it was like hunting) before spending the money. How about the story where we bring Joseph home from the hospital and you were burping him and Max had a fit because it wasn’t exactly how the nurse taught us in the hospital. I guess it slipped his mind that you had raised four children already but I remember him scream. The time you took Joseph to Piccadilly with the family. He must've been 15 months old but the spaghetti you fed him started to come out his nose. The time Jessica was in third grade and you took her for violin lessons. And all she did was lay on the couch with her violin. How about all the times you fed every single kid in the house and you taught them how to eat the pancakes
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