To my amazing, radiant, passionate, loving mother,

As your daughter, who is absolutely blessed to be in your life, I owe you all the gratitude in the world. Every day, I take your extraordinary, super hero powers for granted. You put up with raising me and experienced some of the hardest parenting moments you will ever encounter. But still, you gave me unconditional love and support, despite all of the difficulties of motherhood. I cannot thank you enough for absolutely everything you have done for me. To be able to describe how you have impacted my life would be a considerable feat. I don't think I will ever be able to find quite the right words to explain how you've shaped me.

So instead of trying to find the right words, I owe you a huge thank you. Thank you for setting my moral compass, but especially for letting me make my own mistakes along the way. Thank you for your unconditional support and for teaching me what a true sole mate looks like. Thank you for answering my call at any time of the day and listening to me vent about the frustrations that I was too naive to understand how little those frustrations really mattered. Thank you for always being the protective momma bear that everyone knows and loves. Most importantly to me, thank you so much for becoming my best friend more than a parent as I grow older.

In a world filled with lots of hate and negativity, we can rely on a mother's love that always makes everything much better. I cannot imagine a world without mothers in it. More importantly, I cannot imagine a world without you in it. I honestly couldn't do life without you. Thank you for fixing anything and everything on my unbearable days that the world throws at me. We all need to remember, with all of the hardships that all of us endure every single day, our mommas will always be there. Thank you for reminding me of that.

With much love,

Greer