Dear Mum,
My friends call us the Gilmore Girls, which is funny because I am pretty sure that you can't stand that show. My friends constantly tell me how they are so in love with the pairing of the two of us because we seem to like the perfect mother-daughter duo.
I don't think that I ever thought of it that way, I always just thought of us as just you and me, and nothing else to it. But now as I step back and really think of it I realize how amazing our relationship is in comparison to those of other mothers and daughters.
I love that we can just hang out, go on coffee runs, spend an obscene amount of time in Marshalls and it truly never gets old and I don't think it ever will. I think that I took for granted all of the time that we spent together. I realized when I came to college this year how different things were going to be from this point on.
From now on when I come to stay in the house I will technically be a "visitor" and that is really strange to think. It is kind of weird going home and now having to plan time to spend with you because I can't just wake up and see you everyday. Now whenever we are together I feel like our relationship has shifted from being a mother and her child to two friends and it is honestly the best thing ever.
It makes me so happy that I can come to you about anything like I were to go to any of my other best friends.
Also, that's another thing I want to thank you so much for just always knowing what to say. I tend to get extremely flustered all the time while always getting wrapped up in situations that I should not be in. You are just there waiting with a step by step plan on how I can fix what I am doing to make it all better.
It is a typical "mother" quality to give advice, but you take it to a whole new level and lord knows I need that.
It is actually so crazy how you manage to do so much for not only for me, but also for Dad and Craig. You go out of your way to do anything for us. Once you said something and it has always stuck with me, you said "It is my job I do things for my husband and for my kids", call it old fashion, call it whatever you want.
I have always thought of what you said as a line that emphasizes how selfless you are. You put everyone and anything before yourself and I don't think I could ever really repay you for that.
On top of taking care of the entire family you also manage to work a full time job and be a complete boss. I always joke around and call you a girl boss, but it is so true. Whenever you're on work phone calls I am so mesmerized by how professional that you sound and how hard you work.
I believe that you have made me have such a strong work ethic because you have made the perfect role model my whole life. You have pushed me to do what I have to do to succeed. Always fight for my grades, never take no for an answer, and really just do not stop until I get what I want.
I credit you for all of my successes especially everything that I did in high school that led me to Syracuse.
Everything that I am is because of you. You have shaped me into the person that I am today and I don't even know what I can even say other than thank you. Thank you for helping me, thank you for telling me when I'm doing something wrong, thank you for pushing me to do better, and thank you for being my best friend, I love you.
Love,
Anna
