Even though I don't show my appreciation enough, I appreciate you so much.

Thank you. For picking me up when I was down, being both a mother and father to me, giving me everything I've ever needed and wanted, even when they were put past your own needs, and helping me figure out who I myself am. The list of thank you's could go on forever. But most of all, I thank you for being my best friend.

You have managed to teach me everything I know, helped me mature faster than I needed to, and figure my life out for what it needs to be for now.

Although I am only fifteen, and the past four or five years have been quite rough, you are one of the major reasons I am who I have become. You have helped me mature to my fullest, helped to accomplish all I want in life, and taught me to put my all into something I truly love.

You have worked your hardest to make sure I am always set. From money, clothes, shelter, to being emotionally and mentally stable, you are the only who has ever been there to help me through it all. Even on my worst days, you are always trying to help and the only one ever by my side.

I know you don't see you as being the best mother you can, but I do.

Things have always gotten in the way of us having a good relationship, and when we finally got to a good point of being close, it did get broken. That itself has taught me things in life will never stay the same, and that everything sooner or later has to change. As much as it hurts that we aren't as close as we used to be, you are forever my best friend.

You are my go to person, as much as nobody understands that, you are the only person I will ever always run to when something goes wrong. Many people don't like our relationship because we're more friend level than mother daughter. Being more of friends with you has made it easier for me to grow up.

Along with all the tears, laughter, smiles, and frowns, came some of the best memories of my life. Some taught more of a lesson than others, but they are forever things I will carry with me throughout the rest of my life.

I know we've both changed, and that things haven't been easy what-so-ever, but despite the things and people that have torn us apart, I forever look up to you, and you are one of the biggest role models in my life.

I'm sorry for everything I've put you through to make you struggle, for not always living up to your expectations, and for being hard sometimes more than others. But I thank you for putting up with it and not giving up on me like everyone else.

I love you to the moon and back again.