Having you in my life through the last few years has been a blessing to me. If there was a text book on how to be the perfect mother to a daughter who at times felt like she could conquer the world and other days felt like a total failure, it would have you as the role model.
Thank you for your unwavering support throughout my journey
of motherhood. Thank you for praying for me. Thank you for loving and fearing
God. Thank you for instilling that fear and love for God in me. Thank you for
showing me joy and peace when I know your heart is broken and longs for daddy.
Thank you for being strong and for telling me to be strong. Thank you for
missing daddy. Thank you for always loving daddy and thank you for always being
faithful to daddy.
Thank you for always having hope for me when I didn’t have
any for myself. Thank you for telling me not to give up when I said I couldn’t
do it any more. Thank you for telling me these kids need me. Thank you for
reminding me that God has a plan and is using me. Thank you for reminding me of
the vision God placed on my heart almost four years ago now.
Thank you for never giving up on me when I went through that
dark period, when I shut every one out of my life and became frustrated with
everything and everyone. When loving me must have been like trying to hold a
cactus. Thank you for loving me through all of my rejections of help and love.
Thank you for always thinking about how AJ must be feeling.
Thank you for praying for a job close to home. Thank you for loaning me money
and thank you for allowing me to take my time paying you back. Thank you for
encouraging me to make our house a home for my family. Thank you for
encouraging me to trust AJ’s talented hands and heart to construct it to fit
our needs.
Thank you for sending AJ & I off on our first
anniversary. Thank you for taking care of the kids and cleaning my house. Thank
you for the extra cash to enjoy our trip. Thank you for your selfless love. Sometimes,
because of pride, I take those blessings wrong, but please know I am ever
grateful for all your help. Thank you for not holding it against me when I seem
ungrateful. Thank you for teaching me to be humble and to realize I can do
without sometimes. Thank you for teaching me that receiving a blessing ~
blesses others.
Thank you for loving my kids as much as you love your own.
They love their Mimi very much. Thank you for saying to me, with your whole
heart, that you love my children 100%, even more, no matter where that child
came from, mine or adopted. Thank you for reminding me to slow down and play
with them.
Thank you for being with me at the hospital when I gave
birth to Natalie and Jace. Thank you for being in court with me when we took in
Logan and Sarah. Thank you for washing my laundry, my floors and my kids, for
cooking us breakfast, lunch and dinner and always having special treats. You
gave me some dignity. Thank you for taking my kids to day care every day while
I recovered from child birth. Thank you for putting up with the unexpected
outbursts and rolling emotions from my toddlers.
Thank you for being there on our special day when we found
out that Jace was a boy. Remember how we laughed when we saw his what-knots,
how you said that our boy has big balls. Thank you for having Natalie in your
home so I wouldn’t have to pay daycare last summer. Thank you for going with me when I went into
labour, thank you for being there, I needed you there. All I wanted was my
husband, my mother (my dad) and sisters there.
Thank you for having my kids pictures in your home with
pride.
Thank you for allowing me to borrow dads truck when I know
it would have been convenient for you to have it many times. Thank you, for
every thing you have done for me, thank you for every thing you have said, and
for all the times when you said nothing and just listened.
Thank you for being such a wonderful mother when your own
mother rarely let you be a child. Thank you for being so wonderful when your
own childhood was harder than what you gave me. I am so sorry you never got to
experience how wonderful it is to have such a loving, caring, supportive mother
and a mother who lives close enough to be there in a few hours to help.
Thank you thank you thank you. For a million things, for
everything. I don’t know what I would do without you. There are so many many
more things, small things, big things.
I love you very very much, if I could be half as good a
mother to my children as you are to your children, I will have done
exceptionally well.
Thank you momma, I love you, more than words can ever
express.
Your baby,
Suzanne
