In honor of Mother's Day tomorrow, I want to dedicate this post to my mom. She is a huge reason I'm on my journey today. Twenty-one years ago my mother made a journey of a lifetime. My parents decided to move from Russia to America in hopes to build a better future for my siblings and me. She was giving up her family, friends, a career as a pediatrician, and the only language she's ever used to start from scratch. Looking back as an adult, my mom made it all seem so effortles