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An Open Letter To My Mom Before Mother's Day

I love you.

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An Open Letter To My Mom Before Mother's Day
Tori Corr

Dear Mom,

I want you to know that you’re my favorite mom ever. Even though you’re the only one that I have. But, all jokes aside you deserve to have a full day full of presents, kids at your beckon call, and lots of appreciation.

There is no one else out there that will do what you have done for your kids. First of all, no one would put themselves through labor to have a baby unless it was their own. No one would have changed my diapers the way you did or cleaned up after my puke like you did. No one would have done anything like that and sometimes you didn’t hear a please or a thank you. Day to day activities you didn’t alway hear a please or a thank you or a you didn’t have to do that. It is important that we recognized what you have done all year to keep our little family together. You deserve to have a whole day dedicated to you.

So, you deserve all the naps, glasses of wine, and cherry vanilla chip ice cream in the bath that you can get. You deserve to sleep in later than eight am instead of having someone waking you up. You deserve to have at 24 hour massage if that is what you want. Or even better, to eat whatever you want and not gain a pound all day! Mother’s Day is a day for you to be recognized for all the things you do; from taking everyone to their own activities to paying for college.

Mother’s Day is a day full of thank yous and you’re the bests. Thank you for always looking out for my best interest. Thank you for telling me to get in the shower and have some water when I can’t stop crying. Thank you for picking me up from friend’s houses before I could drive even though you would have rather stayed home instead. Thank you for dealing with my teenager phase and any other annoying phase that is still to come. Thank you for somehow not killing my siblings and me for all the bickering that we do. Thank you for having more kids so I could have siblings (even though I probably would have been fine without them). You’re the best at making meatloaf and potatoes. You’re the best person to have around when someone is crying. You’re the best when it comes to getting us what we need when we need it.

I hope that one day (very far from now) I will be as good as mom as you are. Even though we fight sometimes and can’t stand each other, I want you to know that I’m the luckiest kid out there to have a mom like you.

Much Love,

Your Favorite Child

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