When I first got on Twitter and saw people saying they were V.A.’s or had a V.A., I wasn’t sure what that meant.  So like I do with most things, I asked.

Simple:  Virtual Assistant.  Mystery solved.  I should have figured it out myself because my dad works from a home office here in California and his assistant works from her home in Pennsylvania.

A few weeks later on Twitter, someone referred to my mom as my V.A.  I never really thought about her as an assistant because she’s much more than that.  Plus she isn’t virtual. :)  So I started calling her my R.A. (Real Assistant) just for fun.   But that wasn’t right either.

Next idea:  Since my mom does a lot of my business stuff, calling her my B.M. (Business Manager) made more sense except that I’ve heard doctors use the initials BM so that didn’t work either.  [If you've never heard the medical term BM, ask someone.  It's funny.]

So what initials could describe all that Mom does for me?    I thought awhile longer and then came up with the perfect title:  M.O.M. (Mother of Me!)

V.A.s are great.  R.A.s are too but MOMs are the best!  I wouldn’t be where I’m at without her.