Today is a special day! It's Mother's Day. And while I am your mommy, there is someone else I feel I should celebrate with you. She's fun. She's spontaneous. She's kind. She's generous. She's inspiring. She's faithful. She's beautiful. She's supportive. She's encouraging. She's my mommy. She's your memaw. And boy does she love you.
You see, my mom's a special person to me. My early memories of her are playing with dolls or doing crafts. I remember well days I was sick and she rocked me to sleep in her arms. I remember her brushing my hair and telling me I was beautiful.
As I got older I remember her encouraging me to be the best possibly *me* I could be. Whoever that was. She taught me about faith and about God. She taught me about strength and love for others. She helped me develop passions and hobbies. She supported me in all of them.
Now, my mommy and I are best friends. We talk about everything. We ask each other for advice. We call one another to talk about an exciting day, if we are sad, or just to say I love you. We can have movie marathons for hours and never get bored. We can spontaneously go to the store at 2am and walk around and look at nothing and enjoy every part of it.
She's always taken care of me. She still does. She's always my mom and I'm always her baby. And now, on top of being mother and daughter, we get to be friends. I learn so much from her, and I know that you will, too.
I hope I can be the kind of mother she is. I hope that one day you and I can stay up until the late hours of the morning talking about ideas and faith, expressing hopes and fears, dreams and memories (you'll have to wait until you're a lot older for me to let you stay up that late, though). I hope that when you are my age you think of me like I think of my mom- a hero. a friend. a role model. an aspiration.
She will be good to you. It makes me so filled with joy to know that you will have her in your life. I couldn't think of anyone (other than maybe daddy and me) that will ever love you more than your memaw (and papa, of course!). Watch her. Learn from her like I did. She's everything a girl could ask for.
Love,
Your Mommy.
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