I Love You Mom!

As a college student. (No wonder my dad proposed after only two days!)

Four days before my birth.

My mom is an amazing woman. I often focus on the things that drive me crazy instead of on the unique gifts she has. So today, I'd like to list some of my favorite things about my mom.

• She has never met a stranger.
• She goes out of her way to make others happy, whether it's a close loved one or the check out girl at the grocery store.
• She does everything in her power to serve her children, even when they're ungrateful.
• She is very naive about certain things and often says things that don't mean what she thinks they mean. ("That was my eighth boner today!")
• She knows the name of every plant and flower.
• If she were a boy, she'd be an Eagle Scout (she was raised in Boy Scout camps since her dad was a professional Scouter). She knows the motto, pledge, or whatever else Boy Scouts say.
• She used to go to 11 ballgames a week in order to watch all her kids play and her husband coach.
• She sacrificed her own dreams in order to be a stay-at-home mom.
• Everything I do as a woman, wife and a mother is because I watched her do it first.
• She treats my husband like her own son.
• She loves my kids.
• If it weren't for her, I'd be naked. She still buys all my clothes.
• She suffered from polio and rheumatoid arthritis and is in pain basically every day, but she never mentions it.
• She doesn't have a clue how truly awesome she is.

And I would be truly ungrateful if I didn't recognize the two special women without whom I would not be a mother - the birth mothers of my kids.

At the birth mother awareness day yesterday, a sweet birth mom sold these shirts where we could write our birth mom's names.

P.S. I'm 99.9% sure David has forgotten it's Mother's Day and I'm just wicked enough not to remind him. Good thing he already bought my gift!