To my Mom. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to become a mother at such a young age. So many unknowns and uncertainties. Thank you for choosing to have me and for loving me wholeheartedly from day one. Thank you for stopping your life and making me your number one priority. Thank you for marrying dad and following him to start our life as a family. I never doubted your love and commitment to me. I knew you would always be there.
Thank you for being so involved in my life. For all the dressing room pep talks, the relationship advice, the shoulder to cry on, the meals when I was sick, and the days I got to stay home and skip school to be with you! Thank you for letting me have friends spend the night and making it really cool by buying us special snacks; from chocolate pudding in a wine glass to ice cream and chips! Thank you for making every holiday extra special! Thank you for spending time with me at the pool, on the beach, watching movies with me, and taking us skiing in Colorado! Thank you for all the Mexican food, pickles and ice, yahoo’s and cheese-its, banana snow cones, and laffy taffy’s!
Thank you for doing my laundry, for teaching me to appreciate a clean house, and for making me clean the bathrooms! I hated that, but now I pay close attention to behind the toilets! I had so much fun with my mom, my very best friend. Thank you for investing so much time into me. Thank you for being a mom who cared and who was highly involved in my life. Thank you for wanting to know all the details.
Thank you for taking so many pictures throughout the years. I can tell which things you were not at by the lack of pictures! Now I am the “annoying” mom behind the camera! I get it now. The days are fleeting and I want to capture each precious moment just as you did! This is just one of the things that I understand more about you now that I am a mother.
Thank you for sacrificing so much for me. You have always desired to put my needs and wants first. You are always so willing to serve me. I pray that I will serve my kids unselfishly in the way that you do.
Thank you for introducing me to Jesus. The love of my life. Your faith and desire for Him eventually got to me! Thank you for pointing me towards Him. I now pray the same blessing over my children that you prayed over us, and there is nothing like hearing the boys sing, “This is the day, this is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice, let us rejoice, let us rejoice and be glad in it!” I have an early bird around this house, and he reminds me of your joyful morning mood! He sings in the mornings too! I take the torch from you mom and am committed to doing all that I can, with the Lord’s help, to impress upon my children the truths of our God. Our common refuge and strength.
Thank you for praying endlessly for me and for the man I would marry. It is a great miracle to see how God answered that prayer and gave me Jason. It is the greatest gift of my adult life. You were a part of that. Thank you.
You are a good mom and I love you very much. To God be the glory, great things He has done!
With love from your daughter,
Mindy
Thankful,
Sweet, sweet post. Makes me miss my mom!
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