Reading me books, giving me bathes, saying prayers with me and doing my hair are a few of the memories I cherish. During the summers you were there when I woke, took me to extra curriculum activities and never left my side. Some of the best lessons you taught me. A woman like any other who is not flawless but do make mistakes. While I really like that Claire Huxtable image, I want you to know that I love you more. I watch you take care of my child with such wisdom and love. Life was tough for you I know but you were still the mother you never had. I appreciate you staying home with me.Some of my fondest memories in life came from you mom. Those memories now are so precious to me.
Truly understanding why and how your troubled past shaped you into the person you are is what I had to jacquard fabric do. Mom I can't tell you enough how much I love you for that and for being such a self less person. I honor you and want you to know that you are and always have been a strong, beautiful and brilliant woman, wife and mother. After seeing you with my child, I now appreciate you more. Everyday after school you were there. feinan Growing up from the child with the broken spirit into the woman who would die for her own daughter is a journey many in your shoes wouldn't have handled well. Knowing what kind of childhood you had, it is amazing how well you did.
Because you weren't the bread winner in the house, you were probably the least appreciated in our home. I was always tough on you for not being Claire Huxtable, that sophisticated, confident, career woman. With one disappointment after another, I know you sometimes wanted to runaway but put me first everyday. With so many unwanted kids in the world, what a blessing to have a loving mom in my life. Every suggestion you make and thing you do for her always seem to be just right and I now realize that was how you were in my life. Love, security and encouragement is what you gave me my entire youth. You weren't ever given any credit for what you contributed and I am ashamed that it took this long for me to realize that.
Coming from that rocky childhood into an unfulfilling marriage, you were still able to be everything for me. I've stopped being so hard on you. I realize that you are just woman. Knowing how important stability and having a father was in my life you stayed, took care of me and watched me go off on my own. I don't know what my life would have been like without you. If I forgot my lunch money and called you from school, you brought it right to me. I am the woman and mom I am today because of you