Blog #6

Artist Stament
Rosa
Lorena Palma
It was a normal day after school. I had just got home and was putting my stuff away. Out of nowhere I hear my mom say to me, “Come over here and sit down with me, I have some news to tell you”. And then she said it. “I have a brain tumor. I want you to be able to take care of yourself as much as you can and we will get through this”. After she told me that, I didn’t know what to think. I didn’t know how to react. As she watched my blank face, she made some joke to cheer me up. Till this day I don’t know what that joke was. I still remember that blank feeling.
Ever since I was little I always saw my mother as a role model. I wanted to be just like her when I grew up. As time went on I started to grow older she began to teach me how to treat other people by showing them that you respect them and not being rude. The same thing every parent teaches their children when they are young. When I was growing up, I noticed how she helped a lot around the house and out of the house by going out and helping my grandmother with her doctor’s appointments and the groceries. Not only did she help out my family, she enjoyed helping our neighbors with their kids when they had a quick errand to run. I have never seen my mom say “no” to anyone who asked for help. In our family, she was known as a saint, always putting other people’s needs before hers. She was the most unselfish person I’d ever met. My mom’s job was to take care of my grandmother and my uncle. She was a caregiver. She was paid to take care of them, but she didn’t do it for the money. She did it because she loved her mother and she loved helping.
After a while, she decided that it was time that my grandmother shouldn’t live alone. That’s when we moved in with her so it would be easier to help out. When I saw what was happening and how dedicated she really was, it inspired me to be dedicated like her. Not only dedicated, but to do my best on everything. I noticed when we moved in with my grandma that both my mom and grandma were the same hard workers and dedicated people who loved to help out in every ways possible. She inspired me to be a hard worker as they were. It wasn’t until I was 13 that I realized how important she was to me and other people.
She began to teach me to do the laundry, cook, and clean the house like her mother taught her to when she was my age. I learned how to appreciate the things I have and be grateful that I had a mother that cared for me. I appreciate everything that I have learned from her. What she taught me really did help throughout the years when she got really sick. I took care of her for a while and it really came in handy how to cook and clean but I still got help. Also, after her death it still came in handy because every day I had to look out for myself. Even though I’m still growing up and learning from my grandmother and father, what my mom taught me will always be with me and I will pass on all that I have learned from my mother to my children. Not only do I want them to learn what my mom taught me, I want to keep my mom’s memory alive by telling future generations about her and what an impact she made to my family.