I looked through the e-cards for awhile and everything was pretty stupid, or sappy, neither of which really gets to the "us" of our mother-daughter relationship.
So I went back to Dad's slides and started looking through pictures of just you and me as I was growing up.
It struck me how, in so many of the photos, you, or I, aren't smiling, or paying any attention to the camera. In a few we are clearly posing. But in most, we're just being us, off in thought, or you're too busy doing the mother thing and focused on a task to stop and smile for the camera.
That kind of gets to the "us" of our mother-daughter relationship, far better than any of those cookie-cutter sentiments, now, doesn't it?
So many of these photos point to all the things that make me who I am today. Note the baby bath photo: I seem to be staring at the box marked PIE!
From the zoo to the beach, fishing to the mountains, the things I love now are the things you introduced me to at a young age. Thank you for being my mom.
Happy Mother's Day to the most focused, down-to-earth, driven mom in the world.
I wouldn't have you any other way.
I love you!
T
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