Happy Momma's Day

Dearest Mother~

Today is a day set aside to honor you. It is your day. Your day to eat breakfast in bed while enjoying some peace and quiet, even though you will get lonely and come join the wild ones at the kitchen table. Your day to put your feet up and relax, even though chances are you will either help with dinner or the dishes. It is your day to receive countless hugs and kisses, even though we could never give you enough to make up for all that you do. Your day to demand that all your children love each other and be nice, even though the reason we got into a fight was because someone was making too much noise and its Mother's Day so SHHHHH (as one child hits the other to make them be quiet)!! Your day for the world to revolve around you and each individual child as they brag about how hard they worked on that card and art project at school.

The older I get I wiser you have become. Meaning I now see that you and Dad really DO know a lot more about life than I ever gave you credit for back in high school. Your advice is given in a loving manner and with only good intentions, not in a controlling "I want to tell you how to live your life" way as previously thought. Your tears are my tears as your knee got scraped every time mine did, you failed that test every time I did, your heart broke every time mine did after a breakup. Your spit is the world's best cleaner getting anything and everything off of a dirty child's face. Your hugs make the whole brighter and your cooking never so good as when I had to starting cooking for myself.

In honor of Mother's Day I made each of my students write a Top 10 list of things their mother's do. Here is mine:

MY TOP 10 MEMORIES OF MOM

10. Staying up late editing all those papers. I can still hear you saying "What is "it"? What are you talking about? Which one sounds better...? You're paper needs to be reader friendly."
9. Watching Alicia face as you grabbed her arm and pulled her this way and pushed her that way to get the measurements for her toga. HAHA her face was priceless! You are a lets get down to business mom. By the way..thanks for those togas!!!
8. When my heart broke you rubbing my back for hours till I cried myself to sleep. I know those were long nights for you.
7. Walking around Disneyland and you had your map out, hat on your head, backpack and fannypack on, waterbottle in your hand, and you were cruising. "We need to get these Fastpasses then get those Fastpasses.Then be here for this show, come back and use the Fastpasses and then we will need to go here to watch this parade. On our way we can pick up a Fastpass for that ride...."
6. Your VOODOO medicine. I'll never admit that it actually works.
5. Your face when I was learning to drive and took that turn going 60 MPH.
4. Watching you load up the van after Girl's Camp. I don't know how you crammed it all in, but I do know that it took you holding everything inside with your foot while you tried to close the door. What an amazing balancing act!
3. Getting packages from you! Especially that ones full of cheesy sayings that are attached to the most random of things. They always put a smile on my face!
2.You and Dad getting off the ski lift and Dad following over (No worries Dad I've done it a thousand times.) and hearing him say "Why'd you push me Rhonda? Don't push me!"
1.The way you sign every card with "I'll love you forever. I'll like you for always. As long as I'm living my baby you'll be."

Happy Momma's Day!

Love,
Your Favorite Child