Sometimes we forget to thank our Supermoms for the wonderful and not-so-wonderful things they have done for us, so here's to you, mom.

1. Thank you for raising me a Christian, when so many kids both in America and other countries don’t have the same opportunities.
2. Thank you for teaching me that honesty is the best policy, even if my friends say I could use a little less of that sometimes.
3. Thank you for teaching me your go-to dishes in the kitchen so I will not starve in life.
4. Thank you for coming to every awards ceremony, ball game, dance recital, band competition, concert, or anything else that involved parents.
5. Thank you for always letting my friends stay over at our house for sleepovers, even when we stayed up all night screaming and laughing when you had to work the next day.
6. Thank you for going with me to my never-ending doctor appointments.
7. Thank you for STILL making all of those doctor appointments for me, even though I am in college…
8. Thank you for wearing mom clothes and letting me laugh at you for how unstylish you are sometimes.
9. Thank you for being the warden when I did something bad.
10. Thank you for telling me, when I tried something on, if it looked trashy or was too short.
11. Thank you for buying me a car, when so many people don’t have the same privilege.
12. Thank you for getting up earlier every day to take me to school.
13. Thank you for buying Netflix and letting me use your account.
14. Thank you for letting me keep the house cold, even when you are wrapped in six blankets.
15. Thank you for knowing when to ask me questions after some boy broke my heart and I thought I couldn’t go on.
16. Thank you for telling me that said boy was not the one for me and that I would indeed live on.
17. Thank you for making me have a curfew earlier than all of my friends.
18. Thank you for sending me funny pictures when I am having a bad day.
19. Thank you for making me text you every time I drive somewhere, both leaving and arriving.
20. Thank you for forcing me to buy things with my own money once I started working.
21. Thank you for not spoiling me.
22. Thank you for making me do my own laundry, and teaching me that darks don’t go with whites, and new clothes always get washed separately.
23. Thank you for teaching me that when things go wrong, I can always depend on you to fix them.
24. Thank you for always taking those pictures I dread taking at the time.
25. Thank you for not letting me go to certain friends’ houses because you didn’t know their parents.
26. Thank you for not letting me have a smartphone until high school.
27. Thank you for letting me be the world’s pickiest eater.
28. Thank you for playing hooky at work to stay home and binge watch T.V. and eat junk food with me once or twice a year.
29. Thank you for teaching me manners and making me abide by them, when so many parents lack this parenting skill.
30. Thank you for never making me move away from our hometown and leave all of my friends.
31. Thank you for staying home with me whenever I was sick, and making me soup.
32. Thank you for being my human alarm clock during my grade school years.
33. Thank you for being selfless.
34. Thank you for encouraging me every day to be better than the day before.
35. Thank you for stressing to me that even when things seem like they will never get better, that they do, and if they didn’t, thank you for making them better.
36. Thank you for cupcakes.
37. Thank you for all of the birthday parties that you planned and prepared for.
38. Thank you for not killing my friends when we broke something in the house.
39. Thank you for bragging about me to everyone about everything I have ever done in my life, even when I asked you to stop.
40. Thank you for teaching me the value of life and how precious it is.
41. Thank you for allowing me to dress myself as a kid, even if it was preposterous choices I was making.
42. Thank you for always allowing and encouraging me to be myself, and not conforming to the group.
43. Thank you for always pushing me to be the best at anything I was doing.
44. Thank you for encouraging me to pursue my dreams, even if they were things that weren't practical.
45. Thank you for pretending I was a princess in afternoon tea parties, and that my stuffed animals were actually talking to you.
46. Thank you for raising me to say sir and ma’am, no matter what.
47. Thank you for your sarcasm.
48. Thank you for being my best friend even when I didn’t realize it, and when I under-appreciate you.
49. Thank you for understanding every facet of my life, and knowing exactly what to say as well as when to say it.
50. Thank you for being my super mom.