She may be surprised to hear how much I care, but I know I am most grateful for my mother. The most important reason is that she listens. Secondly, she’s smart and third she’s fun.

One of the reasons why I’m grateful for my mother is that she listens. Whenever I approach her about something, for instance the subject about boys, she always finds time to talk. Most of the time it’s around the time she comes from work and everybody in the house is practically asleep except me, of course. I always stay up at night to talk to my mother. She talks to me about stuff that could happen during the times you spend with a boy, whom you consider to be your boyfriend. Also, she talks to me about her life experience and that it resulted in her being pregnant because her mother never took the time to talk to her about boys and what could happen. In other words, what is considered going too far.

Secondly, she’s smart because she understands whatever I’m trying to get across to her, even if I don’t explain it to her very clearly. She helps me with my homework now that she’s at an advantage. She obtained her GED and her high school equivalency diploma test after attending a few classes here at SMOC. I consider my mother as being smart because she had never finished school and it didn’t take her even as much as a whole year to complete her hardest task.

To prove that, she earned a job at Framingham Metrowest Medical Center and she was already hired before she completed the classes, which she was taking to earn that job. She is now a hard working single parent supporting five kids. Now that’s smart and she’s now also working at getting her license.

Thirdly, I just wanted to say that she’s also a lot of fun because she’s not stuck on being so parental all the time. She takes us to Boston almost every weekend. As a matter of fact, we are going to Boston this weekend. She takes us shopping in Boston and if she doesn’t take us, she gives us the money to go shopping for ourselves. Sometimes if we don’t go out, we sit at home watching movies together. She even lets my friends come over and we spend time together talking and laughing about stories she would tell us about when she was younger.

I think that my mother and I have a great relationship, and I hope that my kids will be able to have a relationship with her just the same as I do. I think they would love their grandmother. My mom doesn’t know this, but I’m very proud of her. I would do anything for my mother. I don’t know what I would do without her. I am very proud to be her daughter.

Nicole Molyneaux is 17 years old and attended Framingham HS. She has been attending the Joan Brack Adult Learning Center for the poast two years. Her goals are to graduate with her GED and to become a nurse to help people in need.