Happy Birthday

Birthdays

Happy Birthday to you...

Happy Birthday to you...

Happy Birthday dear Mom...

Happy Birthday to YOU!

This will be the first year that I will not get to give my wonderful mother a happy birthday hug.

I am in Chicago and my mother is in Mexico. Unfortunately she will be traveling tomorrow so hopefully this will be a wonderful gift for her special day.

I was able to surprise her last week by traveling home to spend the weekend with her!

Make a Wish!

Ironically I am not a big fan of my own birthday, but I do love celebrating other's birthdays.

My favorite part of birthdays is the making of the WISH.

Wishing is very important to me. In a way it reminds us of our goals and dreams in life. 

Some may think that you can simply wish for something to happen and it will, but that is not the case. Making the wish is only half of it. The other half is helping to make it come true.

My Mother.

Beautiful in candids.

She is a woman of many qualities...

Formula One Fan

World Traveler.

Dancer.

Business Woman.

Family woman.

As well as her Mary Kay family.

My Mom.

My mom and I share a few things.

1. DNA

2. Green Eyes

3. The same middle name (Lynn)

4. Awesome blonde hair

5. Love for clothes and accessories

6. Memories

7. The bond that only a mother and daughter can share

A bond that begins before we arrive...

The strange thing about mother and daughter bonds are how they change over time.

When we are young we want to play in mommy's make-up and dress up.

She is everything to us.

Then we grow into teens.

That is when the world begins to revolve around us and only us. 

Independent becomes the word of the day for what seems like 10 years.

We forget how much we relied on our mother just a few short years before. 

I am guilty and know that when I was becoming a teen and wanting to figure everything out of my own I didn't think my mother had any idea. That is what every girl thinks.

My mother and I are very much a like and that sometimes means we butt heads.

Then we begin to mature and realize that yes, our mother did go through things just like we did and they are just as human as we are.

I am told very frequently that I resemble my mother.

When I was younger there was a picture of a young girl wearing a mickey mouse hat and I asked my mom, "when did we go to disney world?" she then told me that I was not the girl in the picture. It was in fact HER!

Over the years I have learned a lot from my mom. 

I know that I will be teaching my children some of the very same things that turned me into the woman I am still becoming today.

All of my life I have been told to set goals that seem impossible and to always always keep an open mind and have a positive attitude. 

Although my mother did instill this into my being, the wonderful company that she is in teaches it to everyone! My mom has been in Mary Kay Cosmetics since before I was born.

This is what I went home in after I was born...

You get the drift.

I am so proud of my mom!

She has not only taught me to reach for the stars, but she has been accomplishing goals and setting new ones all of the time. 

So many people look up to her as a role model.

Since she is a Senior National Sales Director in Mary Kay she is asked to teach classes to women that aspire to be where she is in the business. 

I love to hear her teach because she knows how to get your mind working and hopes and dreams flowing. My mother is an amazing motivational speaker and a fantastic women.

I hope that everyone will get a chance to meet her someday and maybe even hear her speak. 

The point of this post is to let my mother know what a great woman she is and how she has left a mark on so many other women in the world.

She tells me all of the time how glad she is to have me as a daughter, but I am the lucky one to have her as my mother. 

Happy Birthday Mom.

Thank You for helping to shape me into the woman I am.

I love you.

Photos courtesy of Flikr and my personal photos.