Your mom let you have a snake but is giving you a hard time because of a leo?!?! Wow! Give me your address, I'll send a news team to interview her
Tell your mom that my mother-in-law was a hard core herpetophobic and after one week of feeding Pog (our Bearded Dragon) during our vacations, she was already calling him "Grandma's Pog" =)
2 weeks ago I showed her pictures of Leopard Geckos before I brought mine home and she said something like "I only like Pog, everything else gives me the creeps!" and since she met her, the first thing she says when she phones or visits is "how is grandma's tangerine?" =)