Women of the Club

I love my mom. I love reading.

I also love my friends. They have the coolest ideas. Since it's our senior year of high school, we decided to start a small book club- a mother-daughter book club. {reading and bonding}.

Being able to hear all sorts of different perspectives on the same book and just listen to everyone's stories , is just fabulous.  

My mom is a wonderful person. She has done so much more for me than I will ever be able to understand. {like, I can be a pretty awful kid sometimes, but she still loves me} I'll talk more about my mom's wonderfulness later (in another post).

The stories that the mothers in the group are able to tell are just amazing. They know so much. Each of the women in that group is strong and wise in their own way.

It's kind of crazy how little we listen to our parents until we get older, and then we realize how much they actually know and start paying attention (they told us that would happen... they were right about that, too).

Since it finally hit me that I am going to be leaving next year and I'll be semi-independent, I have become ridiculously clingy to my mom. That doesn't mean I've suddenly become the sweetest kid ever and I do everything I can to please her. I wish I did. I try to, but let's be honest, I'm still an emotional, hormonal teenager. 

I've been spending a lot more time with her. I talk to my mom about everything now. I'm not one of those kids who tries to hide things from their parents. [I really have nothing to hide.] My mom knows everything. She is honestly one of my greatest friends. I tell her everything. I melt down in front of her. I cling to her. She listens to me. She helps me and she loves me. Next year, without her, is going to be difficult.

The other moms seem just as amazing to me. Granted, I don't actually live with them, but based off of the way my friends have turn out, I can tell they are all great mothers, and amazing women. Each of the mothers, including my own, has been through things that I will never understand, but that really has shaped who they are (cliche). They give advice and offer wisdom and I LOVE THAT.

Listening to the different insights from the mothers and daughters about different aspects of the books, is truly one of my favorite things. I like the stories that come up. I like that we are honest with each other. We may not always agree about things, but that's what I like about it. 

So, basically nights like tonight with my mom make me happy. I want more times like these when I can just talk openly and honestly to my mom and the other moms. 

Moms are cool. I love 'em.

{For those of you wondering, so far we have read A Raisin in the Sun and The Glass Castle.}