Now that I am a mom, I find myself becoming my mom. Don't get me wrong, thats not a bad thing at all. It just wasn't expected. I remember when I was little my mom was a clean freak, she still is. I would walk through the living room and she would tell me to stop and pick something up from the floor. I recall thinking how in the world does she see that? Its a piece of lint. Daily she would tell me to smile, don't frown, sit up straight, cross my legs, little girls don't act like that. I say the same things to my daughters daily. I picked up my 4 year old from Pre-K yesterday and looked in the rear view mirror and told her to take off her frowny face and smile. I can spot a tiny scrap of paper on the floor and yell across the room for my daughter to pick it up. "where" she'll say, "right there, you can't see that?" I'll respond. I know she is thinking, how in the world does she see that. Another thing I thought was "weird" when growing up is my mom always needed a refill of ice in her cup of water. She would call me from my room and ask me to bring her three pieces of ice. "Ok"......... I would think. I understand now. Moms get thirsty, I know this because when I am sitting on the bathroom sink getting ready I call for my daughter to refill my cup with ice. I just get so parched. I remember mom eating a bowl of noodles almost nightly around 9pm, weird how could someone eat noodles every night, especially after dinner? I know now, after a hards day work you get hungry at night. I mean how many of us moms really get to eat a full meal at dinner, between servings seconds and giving the baby bites off of your fork. I understand now, everything that my mom does or did. I undertsand because I know my own reasoning for the same things I do. When I was six I promised myself that I would never make my kids make their beds or clean their rooms.I am becoming my mother, thank God.