Simply Clodie

  Portland III Friends have always been an important part of my life and I owe that to my mom. She always pushed me to be as social as possible, while growing up I was only very sociable and friendly and I owe it all to my mom. She will always push me to get out of my comfort zone and make friends everywhere I could. Thanks to this I was able to fully understand what it means to have people in your life that feel like family but are not related to you by blood. Seeing my mom try to make new friends in Portland is very inspiring because it shows me that one is never too old to meet new people and that no matter what age you are you might just meet your best friend when you least expect it. "Friends!!!! When we talk about friendship, I am in my comfort zone. I have been very lucky since I have few but good friends. The problem for me was to keep in touch with them maybe because my mother was overprotective of me. Although I still have friends from school, university, work, and from ...

  Angels I have never been a person of faith myself, even when I was really young I never believed that there was an all-powerful god up there looking at us. My mother always let me choose what I wanted to believe in she wasn't forceful at all with religion like her parents were with her. Her belief in god is really lovely and very different from a normal belief in god like the one the church pushes on people. That is why whenever it comes to her angels and stuff I am always ready to pay attention to what she tells because I know just how much they mean about her. "Angels are “a supernatural spiritual being who serves God. A messenger of God characterized as having a human form with wings and a Halo”. That’s the definition of an angel.  For me, they are my savior, my guide. My angels always come to me when I need them. So, I needed them when I arrived in Portland, and they came, my angels came to rescue me. Adam, my daughter’s husband walked me through it, he went with me...

To-Do List I remember my mom's first week in Portland as if it was last week. She was feeling very happy to be with my sister and with her husband Adam but she was still extremely sad because of my grandmother. However, as my mom does she never likes to stay still. She put herself the goal to complete a list of stuff that my sister had her due, like takeout a credit card, getting her driver's license, and her social security number. My mom has never liked showing weakness in front of my sister and she has always respected my sister's time. That is why I remember just how much she had to do in her first week in America because I was the designated assistant for my mom that weak, I helped her study for her driver's license test, understand which bank was better for the needs that she had and understand the paperwork that needed to show to get her social security number. It was a lot but it was all worth it when I saw her smiling ear to ear after getting her driver's l...