Mama’s Girl

I haven’t really talked that much about my mother on this site because, to put it bluntly, we’ve had a rocky relationship. Now that I’m a mother, I tend to look at her flaws as my owns flaws. I’m more understanding that though she may have made some horrible decisions in parenting me and my brothers and sister (and sometimes still does), she was (is) doing the absolute best she can. And she really does love us more than most anything. Really. And that realization has brought us so much closer.

Today I took my mom to Costco, haven for bulk shoppers everywhere. She made the comment that she was talked into purchasing Platinum Cosco card, which only gives her savings if she buys giant flat screen TVs or other electronics, which she will never purchase because, really, she doesn’t need my father watching ESPN on a flat screen, giant TV…she’d never see him again! I cooly mentioned I would take the burden off of her by purchasing a 80GB video iPod in order to meet her electronic quota for the year.

And she freaking bought it for me. For no damn reason!

I really do forgive that summer grounding for borrowing her shampoo now. Yipee!