What She Did Right: Double the C, Double the S, and You'll Always Have Success.

Two lights above my mother's chair at the table were the only ones giving off light in the kitchen. Darkness lingered outside the bay window in our kitchen.  It was early one school morning.  I had procrastinated on yet another book report. I was supposed to do a puppet show based on a scene from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. I was simply planning on drawing figures, cutting them out, and attaching them to drinking straws with tape. For my extremely creative mother this wouldn't do. We used felt for clothing, popsicle sticks for the bodies, wooden balls for the heads, and fimo clay for the hair. She knew that if we put the puppets in the toaster oven the sticks would burn on the rack. So, instead she took a muffin tin and packed flour in each of the cups. She then put the puppets in the cups and the flour held them upright as she placed them in the oven.

What amazes me about this experience is that my mom was heading to Utah that morning. Which means she would have all the laundry done, dinner for the next several days planned and prepared, and usually cleaned the house right before she left. On top of all this, she had taken the time to help her daughter so that she could get a good grade on her sixth grade book report.

Sadly, this was not a one time occurrence.  I remember one Wednesday morning, in the spring of my eighth grade year, when I asked my mother to proofread my ten page report on Jane Austen 45 minutes before we were supposed to be out the door. There were countless other times that she helped me with school projects.

Why double the C, double the S, and you'll always have success? You're more likely to have success if someone else working along side you.