My mom worked so hard her entire life.

At first it was to get herself through college as a single mom and then it was to try to help me get through med school. About a decade ago we got into our first fight. She was 70 and hadn’t retired. She didn’t enjoy her job and she had always talked about how she wants to travel and go on adventures when I was a kid so I was really confused and asked her about it. She said she was still working because she wanted me to have an inheritance and not just a garage full of glass she picked up on beach walks.

We got in a huge fight about it.

She retired shortly after and was able to go to SIX continents!

I received my inheritance today. This is about 1/100th of the beach glass I now own.

I started crying about five times while sorting some of the colors into these bottles but I think it was mostly because I was so happy she finally got to do what she wanted to do. I put this in a place I can’t miss because it makes me smile so much.

Hopefully it makes someone a little happy as well.