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1. My mother is special for more than one reason. In fact, some of the many reasons my mother is so special is because she is loving, caring, and kind. My mother is also honest, trustworthy, and sincere.
She is not only my mother, she is my best friend. My mom has the biggest heart, and anyone that knows her, knows that. I can talk to my mom about anything. My mom is really understanding. She accepts me for who I am, and my lifestyle. Not many people do accept my lifestyle.
My mother has been there with my sister and me through thick and thin. I was in a real bad car accident, and I have brain damage and I have lost all my memory. My mom has helped me through it, she worked with me and has tried to help me remember my past from childhood through high school. When I am down, and having a bad day my mother is there, and she does her best to cheer me up and make me smile.
When I am having trouble, my mom is there in a heartbeat, she will drop anything to save me. She has bought me, cloths, food, when I need them and could afford them. Its also life that with my older sister and her family. She will let her bills go, just to make sure that everything of mine is paid. She also has picked me up, when I couldn't take care of myself. When I just felt like puzzle pieces, she has put me back together again, and made me a complete puzzle.
Honestly, to say, my mother could never meet a stranger, because she is so kind hearted. My mother will take anyone my sister and I care for, under her wing. She will take my sisters friends and mine and treat them like her own children. If our friends are having trouble with life or anything else, my mother, will help them and just take over and care for them and give them the love they need.
My mom does everything for me that she possibly can. My mom works two jobs. She works at Tucker Valley Elementary School as a custodian, she also takes care of elders, in her home. My mother doesn't know what a day off is! Not even, a vacation. My mother does more than what my father could ever do for me, or anyone in general.
My mother tries to be the toughest person she can, but we all know she isn't. My mom is the most softhearted person I know. My mom is now losing her eyesight, and is a lot of pain because of her back.. She will never admit her problems.
Those are the reasons I feel that my mother is so special. God bless my mother, she is always worrying about my sister and I, she needs her own time to treat herself, and to get her mind off us kids for one day and worry about herself, and relax.

2. My mom is special because she is warm hearted, loving, understanding and caring. Most of all my mom is special because she is my best friend!! My mom has had a hard life and I have been there to see most of that. She stayed home and took care of me and my two younger sisters. My mom has fought many battles in her life, but she has always made it through. See never gives up on her children. She is the most supportive person I know. Of course I have did things that she has not like, but she stepped back and let me learn through doing. This is why I am a better person today, because of my mom. She went without just so her children would not have to. When we got home from school mom always had dinner ready and was just waiting to find out about our day. I will have to say my mom was and is strict, but I would not have her any other way. I did not understand how hard it was being a mom until I had my son. Now I look back and see that I took alot of things my mom did lightly. Being a mom is the toughest job I know of and it takes a special with the job title of mom to tackle a job like this. My mom is now getting a little older and her health is not that great and it is hard for her to get around. Playing with her grandchildren is what you would love to do, but she is not able. At times her health problems get her down, but deep inside her spirit is still strong. It is hard to sum up in words why my mom is so special. She has done so many things for me that I can not keep track of all of them. When I need to talk you is there to listen and when I need to cry she is there to wipe away my tears. She sends me flowers and cards when I am not feeling well Even today I live in another part of the state, but I always pick up the phone and give my mom a call before I go to work and to see how she is doing and to tell her to have a good day and that I love her. And some days she gives me a call first just to see how things are. I will have to say my mom is the Most Special Mom in the World. Mom thanks for all that you have done for me. I Love You!!

3. To say that my mother is special is definitely accurate but she is more than just special. She’s one of a kind, irreplaceable and can compare to no other. There are so many things that make her the woman she is. She gives without being asked and doesn’t complain.
My mother, Phyllis Lorainne (Mills) Hawk is one of four children. Born in Morgantown, WV and raised by her mother and grandmother. She lost her father when she was only 6 in a coal mining accident. My Grandmother raised four children without ever marrying again. My mother worked at Combs Flower Shop for many years. My mother met my father at Chico’s Dairy in Morgantown.
They moved to Petersburg, WV and raised four children, three sons and a daughter. My father was a bank examiner and was gone during the week and my mother stayed at home to take care of her family. She didn’t have it easy raising four children. She was always having to help my brothers with homework, staying up late to help them finish so they would not fail. As we got older, it made it even harder on her as one of my brothers had a drinking problem. It made our weekends very hard on my parents trying to keep and steer him in the right direction.
My mother has always been an active member at the Grove Street United Methodist Church as the one that takes care of all the flowers, decorations for holidays, the rose garden, the wreaths on the doors, the lilies for Easter, the poinsettias at Christmas and so much more. She organizes the activities at Christmas when we will decorate the church and also cleaning up afterwards.
My mother is also the Secretary of the WV Garden Club, helping also in the Adopt a Highway Program that keeps our state clean.
Other duties she has taken on is working at the Food Pantry handing out food and supplies to citizens in need.
She and my father are Auxillary members at the American Legion and she helps out with meals and meetings.
One of her many good deeds that she has done is helping the elderly. My father used to help three older sisters by mowing their grass, shoveling snow and taking the trash out. My mother and I would go to visit and help clean their kitchen, take their trash out or just talk with them. She now regularly visits our neighbor who recently has been placed in the nursing home. She takes her snacks, flowers or books to read and spends time with her. She also takes care of the ladies cat and makes sure it is inside and fed.
Wherever and whenever she is there to help and lend a hand. Whenever someone asks, Phyllis, can you help us out, she is there. She makes the time and she is there.
She has taken care of my father who has been failing with a disability, unable to walk the way he used to for the last couple of years. He has a nerve that is degenerative in his brain that affects the way he walks and talks. His ability to walk has bound him to a wheelchair but he can still get around some with the help of a walker.
She babysat my son from birth until his present age of 10. She babysat him three days a week then when he entered Pre School at the age of four, she would pick him up and babysit him until I returned home from work. Now that he is in school, she still watches him after school until I get home. She has also watched my niece who is now four from birth until she presently entered Preschool. At times when my younger brothers’ children needed a babysitter, she was there to help them out. Even watching her two nieces on Saturday and Sunday when their mother had to work.
She has another grandson who is now 16 that has been under her wing since he was just a toddler. She has continually kept up and attended his grade school, middle, junior high and now his high school baseball games. Never missing one, unless it was too far out of town.
It’s not hard to see all the things that she has done. I have so many to mention, it’s hard to remember them all.
I know I have troubled her at times with having to take my son to the doctor when I couldn’t get off work and she always took care of him. She had arranged numerous flower arrangements for me on a whim.
I don’t know how she does it all. Rarely has time for herself. She is a wonderful and loving mother. She is always there to lend a hand, no matter what. I wish that she had more time for herself to do the things she would like to do.