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Personal Dear Gen Z Daughter-
First and foremost you are loved unconditionally, there’s no doubt about that. Some people even say that I spoil you because I know what it was like to not have a lot of things that you are blessed to have in your life. You have a room, phone, bed, xbox, tv, wifi. You complain because you get 5 dollars a week for allowance but haven’t gotten because I said I won’t reward bad behavior. You wondered why mom, grandparents and auntie took you out of school for Veterans Day to sit around with them and other old veterans. It didn’t make sense to you. You don’t understand why, as your friends put it, that “your mom doesn’t work because she retired and disabled from the Army, but their mom works. Your mom must be lazy.”
You don’t understand why the veterans in your life don’t like Starbucks because they don’t support our military and your friends tell you it’s no big deal. My beautiful daughter, every morning you see mom get up a half hour before you if she hasn’t already been up several hours before. You see an organized bed. You see the dog fed and watered. You see mom listening to worship music and praising God. Allow me to tell you what you don’t see…
Mom takes almost 20 medications a day just to function. Mom walking the floor and praying over the house each and every night for peace, and protection over you, our families and our country. Mom is in constant pain daily but she can’t take the pain meds because she knows that she is all you’ve got. Yes we are blessed with the village of Auntie and grandparents that are veterans. However, mom’s older blood sister passed away in 2024 and we won’t go there when it comes to your bio dad. We will just say that he needs Jesus. Mom dealing with a budget that few people couldn’t even fathom to say the least. No we don’t get EBT or child support and for those that are going to come at me. Yes we have applied and been denied several times including as recently as yesterday as far as EBT and child support still trying to find the ex husband . He’s still in contempt. I digress…my blessing of a daughter. I wish you would look up and really research what a veteran is. It isn’t just the old stories you hear the people say when we are at dinner on veterans day. It isn’t just things mom talks about in the Army. It’s deeper than that. Your friends don’t get it. I have friends that I will never see again that were lost during deployments. I see them in my dreams. I remember them daily. They weren’t just friends. They were family. You wonder why I am so close to Aunite and grandparents even though we aren’t blood and we are veterans. We share something that only certain people know. Military families know and veterans know. It’s an oath that says we don’t see color, we just see the person to the left and right of us who will always have our back and we will always have theirs. We take care of one another because we are family. So in the middle of the night when you hear mom crying in her pillow or in the shower and I think you don’t hear me but in reality I know you do. There’s a lot of things that Mom put up with in the 90s and beyond and we will just leave it at that. I love you. You are and will always be a blessing. I just wanted to share something with you today.
Love Your Gen X and Veteran Mom
