Happy Mothers Day, Mom.
I am so grateful to have you as a model of unconditional love.
You are an amazing woman. In your humbleness, always admiring what you see as signs of strength in me, never recognizing your incredible endurance to work through life's lumps.
Your smile lights a thousand darknesses. I feel like it's always there to guide me.
When I think of you, I see the devoted mother, and doting Tita...but also the five-year old orphan throwing stones at vultures as you stood guard over the meat drying on the line near the Rio Chocolate in Honduras. I see the childhood lost, that you reclaim with each silly hairdo you try with the kids, or each fun jig as you samba through the living room.
How did you become such an amazing mother with no model? It's so hard to do, even with you to guide me...and you had no one.
I see your faith in me. Your reserved parenting, allowing me to make my own way, my own mistakes, reserving judgement. I work to learn from that, and make it part of myself. It doesn't come naturally to me, but I am trying. If I can be just a little bit like you, I will have succeeded in this life.
I love you, Mom. Happy Mothers Day.
Emmy
PS: To all my mom friends, thank you for allowing me to learn from you too.
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