Yet another semester beginning

So today is the last day of my month off for winter break. Its a rather bitter sweet feeling because I want to get another semester under my belt and get closer to graduation but at the same time I'm dreading the homework and everything that comes 16 credits. 

The hardest part about today was not the packing or even unpacking once I got back to my apartment, it was saying goodbye to my mom. I used to make fun of her for crying every time Tommy left to go back to school but this was the first time she cried in front of me as I was leaving.  It was just like that typical country song of the child leaving home for the first time.  (Even though this was hardly the first time). She came outside to move her car into the garage as I was backing out of the drive way and the tears were just rolling down her face. It took everything I had to not stop, go back up the drive way and hug her.  I got to the end of the block and of course I started to cry.  I guess I'm not allowed to make fun of her any more because I cried too. We're just a bunch of sappy, emotional women and it seems to only get worse the older I get. 

This just shows how much my mom and I have grown. There isn't a day when I don't at least talk to her a few times and I wouldn't have it any other way. When I was younger, I couldn't stand my mom, I knew everything and I was always right. (Yes mom, I'm admitting it). She was always very patient with me, yes we yelled and I'm sure I made her life miserable at times but after Tommy graduated it was just me at home for four years. (Well it should have only been four years but I ended up back home a few times).  In that time we had nothing else to do but get closer cause it was just us.  We would get along for a while and then have a huge fight but I think that college has made me grow up in more than a million ways. My mom and I are SO much closer than we ever were before and I couldn't imagine it any other way. I'm so thankful to have her in my life and to always have her support in EVERYTHING I do! She truly is my rock!