Letters to Mom

Dear Mommy,

Thank you for wanting me. Thank you for carrying me around inside of you for 9 months. For spending hours in labor to bring me into this world and giving my spirit a home. Thank you for giving me your heart from the moment you laid eyes on me. For counting all my fingers and toes and kissing me all over. Thank you for changing 10+ diapers a day, feeding me every two hours, cuddling me when I was crying, cleaning up my spit up without getting disgusted. Thank you for singing me to sleep, rocking me for hours and reading to me before I knew what you were saying.

Dear Mom,

Thank you for all the time and effort you put into teaching me to read. Thank you for standing in line with me to get the newest beanie baby. For spending all summer reading to me, taking me to the pool, the zoo, the water parks and the mall. For teaching me how to ride a bike, take care of a pet and throwing the baseball with me. Thank you for your sacrifices to make my childhood one to look back on with found memories.

Dear Mother,

Thank you for putting up with me during my teenage years. Heaven knows I wasn't always the easiest girl to raise. Thank you for crying with me when I made mistakes, when girls were mean, when I overcame my trials and accomplished my goals. Thank you for pushing me out of the car at EFY, you always knew what was best for me. Thank you for listening to me when I needed you and giving me the advise I needed to get through my trials.

Dear Best Friend,

Thank you, thank you, thank you for always being there when I needed you. For driving me and my car across country, TWICE. For listening to me so patiently ramble about school, friends, classes, boys and my ever changing BIG dreams. Thank you for letting me pour out my heart to you and giving me the wisdom I needed. For biting your tongue when you needed to and letting me make my own decisions. Thank you for being there to escort me through the temple and sit with me in the brides room on my wedding day. For helping me put together a beautiful wedding and handling the stress like a champion. Thank you for talking to me every day multiple times about anything and everything. Thank you for being my rock, my constant, my sanity, my example, my mom and best friend. I have no doubt in my mind that we knew each other before we came to earth. That we were best friends in the pre-existence. Thank you for sticking it out through think and thin over the past 22 years, 10 months and 18 days. I LOVE YOU!

Dear Future Children,

You are loved so much already. I dream about you often and can't wait to have you in my life. To carry you close to me for months. To count your tiny fingers and toes. Kiss your newborn head and rock you to sleep when you cry. I'm so excited for the days we will have together laughing, playing hide and seek, playing dress up and car. For the time we will spend crying and fighting and loving each other more in the end. I can't wait to read you at night, sing you a lullaby and tuck you in at night. To read the scriptures with you and teach you about Jesus and why you are here. To help you learn wrong from right and to recognize the holy ghost. I can't wait to watch you in football games, ballet recitals, choir concerts, plays or what ever activities interest you. I can't wait for our first trip to Disney and to watch your eyes light up when meet Cinderella or Mickey Mouse for the first time. I can't wait to watch your father bless you in your tiny white outfit, baptize you in your white jumper or sit in the celestial room in the temple with you. I know we won't always see eye to eye. You might not always love me the way I love you. And you may not even like me sometimes, but know this, you will always be loved. I love you so deeply already and your not even here yet. The truth of the matter is I can't wait to be your mom.