This really touched my heart, Destee!
BRAVO!
YAYYYYYY US!
SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE SINGLE MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN!
I was not a single mother, but I am the product of a single mother. (Well, she was legally married but my father abandoned his family).
But I saw how she struggled, sacrificed and prayed and fought for her children. --I saw how she refused to allow their environment or their situation to direct their lives.
....Wouldn't let the streets have her sons...(She told one of my brothers that she'd kill him herself before she let him be in a gang.)
....Was an example of a woman to her daughters.
....taught all of her children to be self-sufficient and men/women of their word.
....encouraged education in her children...even went back to night school to finish her nursing degree.
....went without eating herself but her children never went to bed hungry.
....taught her daughters how to be ladies and her sons how to treat one.
...I know how it hurt her to have to tell her children they couldn't have something because she didn't have the money.
Yes, it's HARD being a single mother.
But, if it HAS BEEN DONE, IT CAN BE DONE.
And there are MILLIONS of other women who have raised their children alone, thru tough circumstances; and THEY MADE IT AND THEIR CHILDREN MADE IT!
YOU CAN DO IT TOO!
Don't sell yourself short!
Don't SETTLE for what you can GET but STRIVE for what you WANT!
awwwwww ... Thank You Sister Cherry ...
lol @ your YAAAAAY USSSS !!! ... ...
Thanks for the love ... for sharing ... for everything ...
Destee