To MY Mom

Dear MY Mom,

Happy "xx" Birthday!

I love you. [sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much].

Been thinking about this post for weeks. 

I love the photo above.  Mostly, I love how calm you look.  I love how beautiful you look without make-up.  I love the chair [just a few years too late].  I love the [tupperware] cup I am holding.  [sorry I made you give them up to DI.]  I love that you made time for me - to sit with me.

This is a new favorite photo of mine.

I love that you were there to support me. On a "Sunday".  Believe it or not, I love it that we have the same "smile" lines by our eyes.  I love that you gave me blue eyes.

I love it when you hug me.

Here are a few ;) other thing I love/love remembering:

• 
  
  Puerto Vallarta
• Volleyball tournaments
• Sleeping on your floor [dad may not "love" this one so much though]
• The morning you dropped me off for my 1st marathon in Utah
• Scrabble games [it's your birthday so I won't say you cheat sometimes]
• you always being my biggest cheerleader - in anything I do
• The make-a-mix dance night in the Westover's backyard
• Girl's camp
• crossword puzzles
• shaved ice as bribery to keep you awake
• making hot [yummy] breakfasts for us 5 times a week [did you ever eat breakfast?]
• seeing Peanut being born
• Aerobics at church . . . with soup can weights
• supermarket sweep with Madeline & Shauna
• Easter dresses
• EAT & BE MEAN - I mean LEAN
• The BAD fish night
• Bran muffins
• Bleach stories
• The year of the PUFF paint Christmas - yep the one where YOU said "damn"
• Driving to Colorado - just you and your insanely scared daughter
• summer library trips
• teaching me how to work
• Peanut adores you [more than she adores me, by far] - I guessing this is probably okay
• That you love my hubby.  He knows it and that makes me happy.
• That you have my back.
• You know [A LOT of] what I could do better and you don't pester me
• You read and even sometimes comment on my blog
• I know you'd do anything for me
• You put up with me during some VERY rough times in my life [I'm thinking mostly 11, 16, 18, 24 & 30]
• You were there for me when the 30 minutes to Glendale to see my old friends seemed like 300.

I treasure our relationship Mom.  I know how blessed I am to have you as MY MOM.