At times when I am putting my needs before my children's I think of my mom and how she loved my sisters and I.

She died at age 52 after a year's battle with breast cancer. I wrote her eulogy but I wish I could have told her how much I loved her and how much I appreciated her and all she did for us children before she died. I will live my life trying to be like her to my own children.

~Laurie Smith