Mom,

Thanks for grounding me, supporting me, praying for me, staying with me, believing in me, talking with me, laughing with me, seeing me for who I am. Thank you for trusting me, challenging me, disagreeing with me, missing me. Thank you for making me feel normal, understood, loved, appreciated, known. Thank you for listening, knowing who I am, and giving me the strength to trust myself. Thank you for being the person I need when my feelings are all mixed up and I cant get it straight. Thank you being so similar and so different, for our shared love of books and subtitled movies. Thanks for hugs, amazing hugs. Thanks for warming me up leftovers.