Happy Birthday, mom!
Today's post is extra special and awesome because it is my mom's birthday!!
She is a strong, independent, intelligent, yet compassionate, empathetic, and completely selfless person responsible for so much in my life. Here are just a few: I know how to ride a bike because she made our dad teach us since she never learned. I know how to swim because she deemed it a necessary life skill she had not had the opportunity to learn. I know how to play piano because she felt it was important for me to learn how to read treble and bass clef. I take photos because she photographed our childhood. I love to travel and explore new places because that's what she did when she was my age. I will overextend myself because I inherited her quality of not being able to say 'no' to people. I am proud to be my amazing mother's daughter.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!!
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This shot was taken at the top of Sentinel Dome in Yosemite National Park (which she was totally terrified of climbing, but did it anyway because she's awesome like that).
