How To Write A Commemorative Speech To My Parents

Like a few of us in here I have decided to write my speech on one of my parents. Specifically, my mother, not to say that my father doesn’t deserve recognition, I just believe my mother deserves a moment in the spotlight. I see my mother, Heidi Mitchell, as an exceptional woman that we all can take a few notes from. I’d like to talk about the hurdles my mother had to overcome to get where she is today.
Let’s start when my mom was just a little girl. As a little girl, my mother grew up in Pamlico, North Carolina. As a poor girl from a poor, uneducated family that never had running water until she was in middle school, my mother had quite a few obstacles to overcome. My mother had dealt with abandonment from her mother at the age of just six years old, a father that was gone most of the time for work, and essentially had to raise her two younger brothers while she was …show more content…
At the age of twenty-two my parents had me, September 5th, 1997. After realizing that my parents may have gotten too serious too young, they divorced two years later. So, what was a twenty-four-year-old single mother to do? While my dad has always been involved in my life, a single mother is a single mother. Overcoming all odds my mother finished her degree, and was well on her way to obtaining her masters. Obviously, I’m not saying this was the easy rout by any means, I think we all can attest to the challenges school sends our way. many people said she would never accomplish anything, and may as well stop trying. Weather it was an ex-boyfriend, or a boss at one of her two jobs she worked trying to keep her head above water, trying to keep her from leaving once she no longer needed to work sixty hours a week. I can remember my dad picking me up from school, and my mom coming home just to take an after-school nap with me before she headed off to her second job an hour later, only to later, after work spend her night at