“My daughters keep me young. Motherhood is being a nurturer, provider, counselor, nurse, teacher and just plain role model. A lot of the time, I don’t feel I know what I’m doing but I have to make sure whatever I’m doing, I’m doing it right—I’m being watched. My daughters are like having my best friends with me all of the time. We know each other so well we don’t let anything get past us. I love my daughters so much that they are my life and could not imagine my life without them! I love being a mother.”

—Annette Mays, administrative assistant/marketing at Skin and Cancer Center of Arizona and mother of Sierra, 15, and Julie, 13