Her World is Getting Bigger and Bigger

Here is an essay so inspiring that I printed it out on Real Paper to keep in my binder.

An excerpt:

"Once I came home from college to discover my mother beating on our kitchen barstools with drumsticks. 'I'm taking a Taiko drumming class,' she explained. While still homeschooling my youngest sister, my mother has been taking classes on health and medicine in third world countries to prepare her for medical missions trips. She participates in runs and bike races.  She takes dance lessons and cooking classes.  She calls me to tell me what she's learning in her Bible studies. She speaks like her world is still getting bigger and bigger.

"I believe she loves me unconditionally and deeply. I believe my mother finds joy and fulfillment in parenting. Her dedication and sacrifices attest to this. My mother, however, is also a doctor, friend, chicken enthusiast, poodle lover, thrift store ninja, gardener, health and fitness nut, dedicated church volunteer and Bananagrams champion.  And I am so glad she is all of these things.  She sacrificed much--more than most moms, I think, if such comparison can be possible or moral. She homeschooled us. She didn't lose herself in us. Just when I thought she'd poured all of herself into us, she somehow proved that her soul was still individual and exquisite, working out her own salvation with fear and trembling, defining herself by herself and God and not by us.  She has never stopped becoming more awesome."

*THIS* is the kind of homeschooling parent I hope that I can be!