Single Mom Who Drove Son To School Every Day Cries When She Surprises Him With First-Ever Car | Happily TV - video Dailymotion

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A proud single mom who worked two jobs and gave her son daily affirmations was brought to tears when she finally surprised him with a car on his 18th birthday. Julia Jauregui, 36, from Pasadena, Texas, shares a deep bond with her son, Samuel. Each morning, she’d drop him off at school with uplifting words like, “Be a leader” and “I love you,” to which he’d reply, “I love you more” — only for Julia to remind him, “But I loved you first.” After a tough few years, including moving out of her longtime rental and back in with her mother, Julia had one goal in mind: to gift Samuel a car. One morning, after a detour to pick up kolaches and donuts, Julia spotted a used 2009 Ford Focus for sale. She secretly negotiated the price down to $1,700, had it checked by a mechanic, and hid it for a month while adding thoughtful extras. On October 6, after recording her final school drop-off, Julia took Samuel to a restaurant with loved ones. When he opened a set of car cleaning products, it started to click. Overcome with emotion, Samuel asked if the gifts meant what he thought — and Julia confirmed with a tearful hug.

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00:00Go, go.

00:01This child doesn't know the surprise of his birthday

00:04that he will receive for his 18 years.

00:07Julia and Samuel share a very special connection.

00:10I'm truly blessed to have the mother that I have now.

00:13As she said, my best friend.

00:15Best friend for the next forever.

00:18And a tradition that was viral.

00:20Love you baby.

00:22I was the intermediate, like seventh grade,

00:24I started telling him every morning, like,

00:26I love you, you know, be a leader.

00:28It's like, William, you know, see something, say something.

00:31All right, have a great first day of school.

00:35Love you.

00:36And you mentioned I started recording it,

00:38and then I would post it, just, you know,

00:40because it was like our daily thing.

00:42And I saw, like, a lot of people love it,

00:44thought it was so nice.

00:45Love you son.

00:46Have a great day.

00:48Así que cuando atravesaron un momento difícil,

00:51Julia supo exactamente qué hacer.

00:54We kind of went through some changes this year.

00:57All summer, like, it was on my mind.

01:00Like, okay, you know, his birthday's coming up.

01:02Like, he needs a car.

01:04And he's a very active teenager.

01:06He goes to school.

01:07He works part-time.

01:09He's a thorting varsity basketball player.

01:11So he has basketball practice.

01:12And then, you know, me being a single mom,

01:14working full-time and going to school part-time also for myself.

01:18It was, like, a lot of stress and thinking about it as it came up.

01:21Un día, Julia tomó una ruta distinta para llevar a Samuel a la escuela

01:25y vio el auto perfecto.

01:27Like, I had to visualize what the perfect car would be for him

01:31and that I could possibly provide.

01:33And I literally envisioned, like, a small, little, black, sporty, cool-looking car.

01:38Con el regalo listo, solo quedaba a preparar la sorpresa.

01:42I bought the car and then I had to hide it

01:45because that was at the end of August

01:47and his birthday was in October.

01:49So he had no idea.

01:51So it was, like, a giant black bag with car stuff.

01:54And I figured, you know, I saw him, like, opening it

01:57and getting, catching the drift.

01:59Like, okay, it's car stuff.

02:00I don't have a car. What's going on?

02:05So you can watch your monster.

02:07Once she gave me the key and I found out, like, it was the car,

02:11like, I automatically realized, like, dang, like, after, like,

02:14all we've been through and just, it just being us

02:17and all, like, the struggles.

02:24When we hug each other and, like, we were crying to each other,

02:27like, crying to each other, it made us more than just a hug.

02:30Like, it was just, I guess it was just life.

02:32Like a connection.

02:33Yeah, a connection, yeah.

02:34Oh, my God.

02:36It was good. It was good. It was a blessing.

02:45It felt like, like, I did it.

02:47Which is exactly what I told him, like, when I hugged him.

02:49I said, I did it.

02:50Like, it felt like all that we had went through the past two years

02:53and I was able to still accomplish this, like, giant goal of mine

02:57that I had.

02:58And I remember, like, all the moments.

02:59I used to dump him off at school every day.

03:01It was, like, perfect.

03:02It was, like, the perfect ending to, or beginning it,

03:05to a new chapter, you know, to his 18th birthday

03:07and becoming an adult.

03:09Still my baby, though.

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