Friend a Day – Cathy Wick

If you want mom’s vote, you’d better be able to do math!

For Mother’s Day, my friend a day is my mom.  I love my mom because she’s my mom but because this is a Friend a Day post, I’m going to write about why I like her a lot.

Just this last week, we went to see Neil deGrasse Tyson speak.  I went because mom got an e-mail about the event and asked if I wanted to go.  Not being stupid, I said absolutely yes.  We had a great time at that event and Dr. Tyson has always impressed me as someone who is excited about teaching people about science.

He’s not the first person who taught me to be excited about learning, though.  That person was mom.  She’s was a teacher of mathematics for most of my formative years and she was good at it because she loved sharing math with kids.  She wouldn’t just talk about her work day, she would talk about the ways she was teaching math that made her excited.

I always tell people I’m the child of math teachers because I’m proud to have come from that background.  Math teachers are awesome.  Mom taught me that.

I love going on vacations with mom because she gets so completely immersed in what we are going to do.  We are heading to Yellowstone later this spring and ever since the plans were made, she has been watching the Old Faithful webcam and sending me regular messages when the geyser is about to erupt.

She keeps trying new things in her life and I think that is part of that teacher mentality that she should always be learning.  Right now, she is doing a sketch journal and talks about it a lot.  It is a new thing that has her really excited and I think that’s great.

She’s always looking for new things to get her excited.  And she always finds them.

I love my Mom, yes.  But I also like spending time with her as a person.  For that, I feel incredibly lucky.  Thanks, Mom!  Happy Mother’s Day!