Mama, I love you.

Hi, this is my mom Janie and me circa 1989 maybe.

This is my mom and I two months ago.

My mom...What can I even say.  We are the most opposite a mother and daughter can be, yet so alike in a quite a few ways...In the way we laugh, our skinny legs, our big smiles when we're happy, and maybe a couple of other things better off not mentioned.

My mom and I..We have probably the most interesting relationship ever.  For the majority of my life (mostly my teenage years)  I was a brat.  I blamed my mom for everything.  I said some mean things.  I took for granted and forgot that this is the woman that birthed me, took me to so many dance classes/horseback riding lessons/piano recitals, and I could just go on and on.  

How could I have taken all that stuff for granted?  Ayayay.

This is 3 generations of beauties, and skinny legs.  Amy (my Oma who my mom swears I was NOT named after, even though I'd like to say I was; she was an amazing woman), Janie my skinny-legged mom, and Amy, me the devil.  Amy sandwich for the win.

I think as soon as I moved away from home at 18, I realized that despite our differences, I loved my mom so much.  She fed me, clothed me (sometimes not the best outfits, but they're clothes!!), was my personal free taxi driver, fed me good food, taught me so many things I could have never taught myself,  and has been through so many more things than most moms have been through.  

Thank you mom..Thank you so much for raising three beautiful children, two daughters and a son that have turned into amazing individuals.  I am so thankful for Matt and Ali...And you.  I am SO thankful for this family.  Through thick and thin, and some of the hardest times ever...I would never trade this family for the world.  It's not the Brady Bunch, but it sure is much more fun than that.  

P.S.  Obviously had to title this post with a Spice Girls song quote.  Thanks mom, for letting me listen to them 24/7 and not complaining once.

In conclusion, LOVE YOU MOM and happy Mother's day...Thank you for the most wonderful memories ever.  Thank you for being the most fun mom ever.  Thank you for my life.