Remember your mother during Mom's Weekend

To the editor:

This weekend is a special one. It's Mom's Weekend 1999 -- a weekend of fun events planned for you and your mom.

It's a time for students to let the ladies who mean so much to us enjoy a special weekend made to honor them. This is also a great time to explain why your grades aren't as high as she might have expected, or how easy it truly is to get a parking ticket. This is a time to reflect on the importance of your mom in your life.

No one person can ever know how simply amazing my mom, Donna McMullan, is. She has been the smile in the face of fear, the hug in my time of need and the coach pushing me constantly to the finish line of success. She is arguably the most amazing figure in my life.

She has a passion to help anyone and everyone. She is the definition of an "I am third" woman -- God first, others second and herself last. My mom has made a habit of putting herself last.

My mom has been a giver her whole life. She has made time to come to everything from my first school play to my first athletic competition as a player to my first football game as a coach. She has always been there for me.

My mom has not had the perfect life, but she has brought a piece of perfection into mine. She was involved in a horrible car accident as a teen-ager, and her childhood may not have been the best, but you would never know it by meeting her.

She is a local volunteer and has done so much to make our community better. If she has any free time you might catch her outside working in the yard with her husband, my daddy, Don McMullan -- a former OU baseball player who she met right here on campus.

This Mom's Weekend will be the last weekend of my UOSA presidency, and I am honored to be spending it with the greatest lady on Earth.

Mom, I love you, and not a day goes by that I don't thank God for your presence in my life. Thank you for being my friend and inspiration.

If your mom is coming to town, take her all around campus and try to attend as many events as possible. If your mom is not coming, take out 35 cents and give her a call to tell her just how much she means to you. If for some reason you can't talk to your mom, picture a memory of you and your mom in your mind and have a great Mom's Weekend.
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