W.O.E.

Worst. Mom. Ever.

Yep, that's me -- the worst mom ever.

Everyone's got to be good at something and apparently I'm good at being a pessimistic, non-supportive, discouraging mother.

It doesn't matter that I'm the mother that (two days after having my gall bladder removed) slept in a chair in my 20 year old daughter's hospital room for 4 nights straight so she wouldn't be alone when she woke up in pain at 2:00 in the morning.

It also doesn't matter that I'm the mom that spent money I couldn't afford to spend on fun stuff like candles and placemats for that same daughter's first college apartment.

And it really doesn't matter that I am the mom who will drop whatever I'm doing, even if what I'm doing is writing articles for which I actually get paid a small amount of money, in order to proofread or edit a a college assignment that needs to be turned in the next day.

None of that matters because I am the Worst. Mom. Ever.

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