When I was kid, my mom missed the deadline for softball sign-ups. I am sure I pitched a fit about missing out on a summer of softball with my friends. So, even though it was the last thing she wanted to do after a day of accounting and then making dinner for her kids, she went to the board meeting that week and asked if they could let me play.
They told her no, which I completely understand as there probably would have been a tidal wave of other late sign-ups in my small community that would have sent the softball league reeling into chaos. She came home and broke the news to me. I am sure I pitched another fit.
Fast forward a couple of days, I was probably in my room brooding and shaking my fist at the world, and she told me that baseball sign-ups were still happening. “Why don’t you play baseball with the boys? You can do that.” And this is just one example of the many, many, many times in my life my mom made me believe I could do anything in the world. Whether it was little things like playing baseball with the boys or bigger things like moving to Boston at 18 for college, the strength and confidence she instilled in me set the course for my life.
She built me up so much and because she told me I could, I believed and did.
Happy International Women’s Day to my mom – I hope every little girl has a woman like her in their lives.
coming full circle 