Gratitude Blog

I am very grateful for my mom, Jamie. She's a single mother and she works her butt off everyday of the week. My mother is the only one who has been through everything for me. My mother knows me from head to toe, inside and out. She's always prioritizing my happiness before her own and I thank her for that. I always irritate the soul out of her but somehow and someway, she always loves me no matter what I do or say. My mother has been through the worst at some points just for me and I am very very thankful. She knows when something is wrong and she comforts me. She encourages me to get better grades in the most irritating ways, but it really helps and I still will always love her. My mother has been my mother and father. Unfortunately, growing up, I didn't always have a Father figure. My mother was both. She's always finding a way to become a Father figure.

I'm thankful for my best friend, Dena Ahmed. We've been best friends for almost 10 years. Dena knows my deepest secrets and I know hers. Whenever I am emotionally feeling down, the first person I go to is Dena. Dena is like family. My grandparents, my aunts and uncles, and even my mother treat her as if she if family, because honestly she is. I always bring Dena to my family parties and she always has a way of making it a blast for me and I am really thankful for that. Dena is my main one for sure. I can always always always count on Dena. Even though I'm 6 inches taller than her, she's kind of like my big sister in a way. Like, she tells me what's right and what's wrong before I take action onto anything. She tells me what could possibly happen if I ever did anything bad. Dena knows me from head to toe, and inside out as well.


I am really blessed for my Grandpa. My Grandpa is the coolest man I've ever met, and I really mean it. He gets really mad easily, but we both laugh it off. My Grandpa has always been there for me no matter what. I can joke around and even play with him. He's the funniest Grandpa ever. Whenever I cry, he finds a way to make me laugh, even if he's the one who made me cry. Something I sort of hate is when he imitates me crying, which makes me not only mad, but I laugh too. The faces he makes when he's trying to make our cousins and I laugh are priceless. My Grandpa drives funny. It makes me smile. My Grandma keeps yelling at him for the way that he drives, though. My Grandpa and I laugh at her. I am very very very very blessed to have him as my Grandpa. He cooks me food and he buys me so much ramen noodles. He buys my Guinea pigs' food, too. My Grandpa can build bedrooms and build doors and even make his own slippers. He knows how to make ice candy and knows how to fix a bike's chain. My Grandpa picks me up from school from the hottest weathers to the coldest. One time, he even picked me up by walking to my school. We walked home together. I am thankful for his voice. He's a great singer. He likes to sing Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. Once, I even heard him sing a 21 savage song and it really made me laugh because he was clueless of what the lyrics meant.  I shared a lot of moments with my Grandpa that will forever be in my heart. I am blessed, thankful, and grateful for my Grandpa, Jimmy.