One of the Angels of this earth

I know a lot of people will write about their moms in this competition, and as much as I’d like to be different and stand out, I just can’t help myself but think of my mother first thing when someone mentions inspiring women. My mother, Ana, had me and my older siblings by the age she was 23. She was born in a small town in Montenegro and had only known how to speak serbian. Life in former yugoslavia was hard and getting a degree, which my mother did, didn’t seem to pay off. She decided she wanted a better future for her kids. While she was taking care of us and saving money my father was in Germany doing some shady business to get money, where he also would later go to jail, which is a stoy of its own. However this story is not about the disappointing men in the world. When my mom was 27 years old, she took me and my siblings and went off to Sweden. She couldn’t speak any english, let alone swedish. She was determined to get a better life for us to the point where she left everything she ever knew in her hometown, her family and friends and without ever traveling she went off to the country where her kids later on in life would call home. The road wasn’t straight and there were many obstacles but my mom never failed being there for us and providing when needed. She came to Sweden speaking no swedish or english, and found 3 jobs which she would constantly work at to be able to provide food and clothes for me and my siblings. She lost her younger sister during our first year in Sweden, and although that broke her heart she kept on fighting for us and moving forward. After our first 3 years in Sweden we were sent back to Montenegro to wait for our visa and had to spend a whole year there living 9 people in my grandmoms place which has 2 bed rooms. My mom never stopped fighting for us and she never gave up even though she didn’t know how the road was going to unfold. She is to this day the strongest, warmest and most stubborn person I know and if I have kids of my own one day I hope I too can be that good of a role model to them as my mother was for me and my siblings. She gave us the best life I could imagine and although we grew up without our dad ai never in my life felt that something was missing. I’ve had clean clothes, food on the table and a roof over my head. Right now I am in Australia and working to be able to save money to buy a ticket for my mom to come here, she has done so much for me that I feel like she would deserve something big back to her.