Happy Mother’s Day!

A Love Letter to Our Moms

Wonder Woman a.k.a.Mom!

How do you say I love you and thank you enough when it comes to mom? As long as you say it often taking advantage of every opportunity and on occasion creating a moment to do so, it just may be enough. The good thing is that they already know how loved and thanked they are because they are moms and they know everything. It is true- they do know all!

Funny thing about parents, moms especially, as children we place them on a pedestal they are our heroes with all the magic powers, then at some point we pass into this phase of life where we view them as humans, flawed humans to be exact, and we drop them from that pedestal. Then, something wonderful happens and we move into the next phrase of life where we grow up and get over ourselves. In this phase we realize we are all flawed humans and those flaws make us who we are. Those flaws prove resilience and depth, growth and acceptance, humility and grace and so much more. They are no longer flaws they are just beautiful parts and pieces contributing to the makeup of our moms (parents) and our own makeup. 

Heather and her Mom

In our moment of realization and acceptance of flaws as a part of life and existence, our parents, especially our mothers, are returned to their pedestal and we again see them as our heroes, our beautifully flawed human heroes. 

Their magic powers have no end and their role in our lives knows no bounds. 

They have loved us unconditionally since before we were born and every day

after. They have fiercely protected us, they have disciplined us, they have taught us the virtues of life and many a life lesson. They have challenged us and been challenged by us showing their strength and endurance, while, teaching us strength and endurance.

They have given us the tools to become beautiful flawed humans, supporting us every step of the way. Offering forgiveness and understanding of our flaws with unwavering fortitude at every turn.

Our moms have been there and will always be there to cheer us on and to pick us up when we fall. Ours moms are the loudest cheering section and kind voices in time of need.

Kate and her Mom

Our moms have done an incredible thing-they created a life, our lives, (yes dad was there, but he gets his props next month) and then they nurtured us at every phase of life without question, always with patience, sometime enlisting an army of saints to do so, but they did it. How moms (parents) do it day in and day out, we have no idea! But we take our hats off to them and salute the job well done.

We may not see you as much as we would like, yet we see so much of you in ourselves each time we look in the mirror. We hear ourselves sounding like you and we smile. We are becoming more and more like our mothers and it is a beautiful thing.

We are so grateful you are our beautiful heroes and that we get to call you by your hero name of mom. There is no one like you and you are amazing. It is an honor and a gift to claim you as ours and to share you with the world. 

Thank you. Love you. 

Cheers!

K&H

P.S. Check out this blog posting about the Go! Discover Richmond walk held last weekend.  Seriously, go explore this awesome town!