As most people know, I'm sort of a Mama's boy. Okay. I AM Mama's boy. It's hard not to be when you've had a mom like mine. I can't even begin to describe how blessed and thankful I am for being the son of Belinda Walley.
It is unreal what all she has done for me. For example, she spent almost every week night and Sunday afternoon for a few years driving me back and forth 45 minutes to the theatre company I was performing at. She gave up almost every Saturday during show choir season to either play in my show choir band or just watch me. For so much of my life, she was my spiritual leader and the person I always went to for advice. She put up with countless hours of me complaining about my high school and any other little thing. Any crazy idea I came up with or thing I wanted to do, she has always supported me 100%. She never discouraged my creativity, even if it meant that a few things in the house got destroyed or painted on. Even when I told her I wanted to spend three months of my life in another country, there was never a moment where I doubted her support. She has always encouraged me to put my all into everything and try to reach goals that may seem impossible. I love the way that I can look at my own life and my own quirks and sometimes see her in what I do. I love the way that she and I can laugh about something stupid and can sometimes have a conversation in public by just looking at each other. I love the way that when I bring friends home from college, they feel welcomed and like she could be their mother too. Yep, she's the best.
The love that my mom has shown me and continues to show me now that I'm older and spend most of my time away from home is the greatest human love I have ever known. It is absolutely the closest love to the love of God. In my life, God has shown me through the sacrifice that my mom made for me just how much the sacrifice Christ made for us means.
Happy Mother's Day to my main woman! You're the best and I love you!
"I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always. As long as I'm living, my mama you'll be."
Getting ready to leave for London
Christmas 2012
This is where I get my white-boy moves from.
My high school graduation.
In Central Park for my senior trip
My mom, Granny, and I in Times Square
Show choir dinner theatre my senior year
She was even the mom of a big chicken
Chicago in 2009
My Mom is my main theatre date
Absolutely the most wonderful thing I have ever seen about an absolutely wonderful mother and the best sister-in-love in the world! You have truly been blessed with a great mother and she has been blessed with a great son!
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