It’s the little things that go a long way.
This is a special one. Mothers cannot be replaced by anyone; ours hold a very special place in our hearts. We often forget how much they do for us and we take advantage of the amount of unconditional love they have to give to us. Leaving for college has created a longing and realization of how amazing a mother is. At 18+ years old, we are able to say that we have come to see all of the little things we should have appreciated a long time ago. Thank you, mom.
1. Thank you for always holding us when we cry.
2. Thank you for answering our phone calls from the next room because we don’t want to get out of bed.
3. Thank you for yelling at us when we are being irrational.
4. Thank you for calling us out of school on the days we just weren’t up to it.
5. Thank you for teaching us how to work for what we wanted.
6. Thank you for being so protective of us when we left the house.
7. Thank you for buying us food when we get hangry.
8. Thank you for (sometimes) taking our side in fights with dad.
9. Thank you for painting our nails then repainting them when we told you they looked bad.
10. Thank you for teaching us how important it is to visit our grandparents.
11. Thank you for always making our birthdays everything we ever wanted.
12. Thank you for taking us to get ice cream when we’ve had a bad day.
13. Thank you for supplying us with the knowledge to know right from wrong.
14. Thank you for giving us a hug even after we told you we didn’t want one.
15. Thank you for buying us that new prom dress when the first one just wasn’t what we wanted anymore.
16. Thank you for listening to us vent about how much we hated school, but still making us go.
17. Thank you for laughing at our jokes, even when we both knew they really weren’t funny.
18. Thank you for providing us with dinner every single night of our childhoods.
19. Thank you for always eating the tomatoes in our salads because we wouldn’t touch our plates until they were gone.
20. Thank you for putting up with loud sleepovers because it was what we had begged for.
21. Thank you for dealing with our mean comments, we promise we don’t mean them.
22. Thank you for always making us go on walks with you even though we didn’t want to move.
23. Thank you for recognizing when we are upset and just need to be left alone.
24. Thank you for driving us to school until we bought our own car because we were afraid of the bus.
25. Thank you for still hiding Easter eggs around our house even though we are legal adults.
26. Thank you for allowing us to make mistakes, and always being there to help fix them.
27. Thank you for dealing with all of our melt downs.
28. Thank you for always pushing us to do our best.
29. Thank you for not getting mad at us when we got a C on a test, because you know we were up until 2 am studying.
30. Thank you for not giving us everything we ever wanted.
31. Thank you for being our role models.
32. Thank you for all of the sacrifices you have made for us.
33. Thank you for letting us be independent.
34. Thank you for helping us make it through our teenage years.
35. Thank you for being patient with us.
36. Thank you for always making sure we felt loved.
37. Thank you for being you.
Love you mom.