Hello to my second mom,

For the past couple years you have dealt with my friendship with your daughter. I want to start off with thanking you, thank you for raising an amazing girl. Her friendship has made me laugh until I’ve peed myself and she’s always there for my teary nights of college. I have never had a friend like her, so thank you.

I’m sorry if we ever kept you up with our loud laughs or raising the television so loud that you’d think we were in a movie theater. I’m also sorry for not going to prom; your peer pressure did not work…

Thank you for letting us use your car whenever we needed it and letting me drive. Thank you for putting up with both of our teenager attitudes and our pickiness. Thank you for embracing me in the biggest hug the first time seeing me since going away to college. Thank you for being a great role model on how to be a mother. Thank you for dealing with the combination of me and your daughter. Thank you for always making me tea, dinner and breakfast whenever I am over because “no one feeds me at home.” Above everything you have done, thank you for letting your house be my second home.

Without you I’d smile less. You’ve taught me a lot of lessons my parents try to tell me but I never listen to them.

Love,

The Daughter You Never Wanted, But Now Love.