As the holiday season is rounding third and heading home, I can't help but think of how blessed I am. The number one set of people I need to thank are simply my mother and father. But not merely just a thank you for the holiday, a thank you for a lifetime.

Thank you Mom and Dad. No, really, thank you. I don't say it enough, but you deserve to hear it all through out the day. Thank you for the amazing Christmas yesterday. Thank you for putting me through amazing schools all my life. Thank you for having a roof over my head and socks on my feet. Thank you for providing me with food everyday. Thank you for supporting me in all my crazy ideas/adventures. Thank you for taking Hope and me on amazing vacations. Thank you for teaching me how to be my best self. Thank you for keeping me grounded and teaching me right from wrong. Thank you for getting myself in check when I tend to go on my rampages. Thank you for letting me explore life with you keeping a longer leash. Thank you for deciding to have a second child, I don't know where or who I'd be without Hope. Thank you for having a civilized divorce and never once making Hope or me feel like we have to choose a parent. Thank you for living close to each other and paying for my car. Thank you for letting me choose to venture into design school and supporting me 100%. As cliche as it sounds, you two are the reason I am who I am. I wouldn't want to change a single thing about myself and I say that confidently because you taught me to love myself. I often times take you and every thing you do for me, for granted. Never being hungry and never worrying if the electricity would go off is how I lived and continue to live my everyday life. I have never felt unsafe at home. I never realized how much of a blessing this was until recently. Going off to college, meeting new people, and understanding their home life opened my eyes to how much I owe my parents. There are millions and millions of amazing things that have happened in my life to which I owe my parents. Big and small, the gratitude is still the same. I wish I could give you both everything in the world. It sounds cliche, but it is the truth. I genuinely wish I could give you back everything you've done for me. While my age and current income (babysitting) does not allow me to do that, I will spend my life being forever thankful.

There will never be a day where I have said thank you enough, but I most certainly will not stop. Thank you for everything, I love you both dearly, and simply, thank you.