For years it was just me and Dad, I thought for a while that he would be my only parent. Then one day, I remember he told me we were going to go eat dinner with some lady. I think we went to Outback, I was so young I really can’t remember; all I honestly recall is the fact that we got a chocolate cake and shared it. You basically won my heart at that point. Before I knew it, you were showing up at school graduations and I was seeing more and more of you. We became close, but I didn’t want to get too close at first. Simply in fear that whatever it was with dad would not work out. Then you guys reassured me that you weren’t going anywhere, simply with an engagement. That was a happy day for me.
You guys didn’t get married for a couple of years after that but in the meantime, we truly became a family. I called you mom, and that is what you became to me. And that is what you truly are to me today. You and dad put me through a few years of private school to better my future, I know that was hard; I want to just thank you both for that, I will forever be grateful. My last two years of high school was definitely not how I planned it in my head. We lost your father, and that tore me to pieces. Little does anyone know is that he truly helped fill the void of my Papaw being gone. Then not too long after I think I got the best news, you told me you were pregnant with bubby. My senior year was an interesting to say the least, for a while I thought that I had given up things but no I see that those things were simply minuscule.
Now I have been in college for about three years now, and honestly when I’ve need support or a shoulder to cry on you've been there. I will always tell myself and remind myself that you made a choice to be here for me all these years. And honest to God, I feel so blessed and forever grateful. So even though over the years we have argued and gotten on one another’s nerve, you have been what I have needed -- a caring mother. You have simply taught me that a mother is not necessarily blood, but more of the woman that is there for you when you are hurt, sick and for the important things in life. I love you so much and thank you for being my mother!
