<human>: First of all I want to say I love my mother more than existence. She has literally saved my life countless times and I hope to be at least half the human being she is one day.

Today I received a refund of 2,000$ from my uni. I was pretty elated and called my mom. I am also signing a lease for my place for senior year so I told her I would pay the first months rent (900$) and that she wouldn't have to worry about it.

Our original deal was to split my final year's education costs in thirds between me, my father (55m) and her. Before my father had financed my education through a college fund he started before I was born when my parents were first thinking about children. It would be fair to say the refund originally came from this account.

Anyway my mom said she would cover my rent for my senior year, my dad would cover the first semester and I would take out a loan for the last. My mom isn't as well off as my father (they separated rather recently) so I thought it would be cool to take care of this for her after consulting with my dad (he essentially said do whatever you want with the refund).

Initially she seemed pretty excited but I got a text later saying that she will only contribute 900$ to my Deposit/First/Last (a total of 2,700$) and that I should use the rest of the refund to cover it.

I'm confused because I feel like I had already given her a "gift" and that she was ready to pay the entirety of the deposit before. I felt like it went from "oh great I have 900$ less to pay" to "why am I not getting all of it".

So someone give me a reality check and tell me that I'm being a spoiled brat, or am I somewhat justified to feel this way? Although when it comes down to it I obviously won't deny her.

Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?
<bot>: I received a 2,000$ refund from my University originally paid out of a college saving account. My mother is asking it to be used to pay off some of her contribution to my education.