Dear Mom and Dad,
Thank you for giving me the world. Thank you for listening to me cry over nonsense when I was younger. Thank you for teaching me how to be independent, reliable, and responsible. Thank you for trusting me, for respecting me. Thank you for always putting me first, even though I tell you not to! Thank you for working out whatever issues the past held and making our family whole again. I know your responses will be, “You don’t have to thank me, I love you no matter what”, but I am thanking you anyway. I want you both to know that you are appreciated. You both mean the world to me and I would not be the person I am today, obviously, without you guys. You two are so different (in a great way), yet know how to make it work. The constant love and affection I receive from both of you is something I will strive for with my future children.
Thank you dad for your OCD habits that make me the clean and organized person I am. It’s a thing, ask any of my friends and they will tell you I love to clean. Everything in my room fits perfectly because you measured out each inch and every cord is tucked away and hooked up to a specific switch. I admire your passion for your business as well. Your witty comments and energetic morning energy is something I miss when I am away at school. The footsteps I hear from my room knowing that you’re up walking to the kitchen for breakfast. The tears you shed for the most absurd things on television (ex: Ambush Makeovers on The Today Show). Yes, he cries for those. What I will never understand is how I never inherited any athletic ability, but practice makes perfect right?
Thank you mom for ‘kind of’ giving me your artistic abilities. I am nowhere nearly as talented as you are in that department (she makes her own clothes and designs things before they are even in stores) but I look up to you so much. Your fashion eye is one like no other and you are special because of that. Thank you for all the endless errands we run and endless laughs about weird things only we would find funny. You are my confidant, my other half, and the best friend I could have ever asked for. I hope that some day my daughter and I share a bond half as special as what we share. Your selflessness shines bright and you always know how to put a smile on anyone’s face.
To both of you, how you maintain clothes for longer than ten years I will never understand but you manage to still rock them today and look better than ever. Cheers to you, Mom and Dad, and all that you are. I love you with all my heart and more.
Love,
Bess
