Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
I wanted to thank you for so many things this Mother’s Day so here goes;
Mom thank you for supporting me on going on the race! You weighed the pros and cons with me, whether I wanted to listen to them or not. But when I did make the decision to commit you helped me and encouraged me every step of the way. To helping me by coming up with a design for thank you notes, selling things around the house, looking up what gear was the best and racer packing lists, to working more so I was able to make this happen. Thank you.
Mom thank you for supporting me in school. You never expected me to get A’s you pushed me to do better, but you always said, “If you do your best and get a C, then that is okay, you did the best you can.” Especially when we found out I had ADD, (which finally made so much sense) you encouraged me and supported me when I tried new tactics as well as looking up different ways to help.
When I started playing sports you let me try what I wanted. You stayed with me and encouraged me at every game from 7th grade “Katie Time” (or the last 1:45 of every dame) to 12th grade when I started the game after coming back from ACL surgery. And speaking of my ACL surgery, you didn’t tell me to stop playing sports after it happened. You heard I wanted to get back into it and you supported me. We figured it out. Thank you for becomein Booster Club President and volunteering at every sports banquet and event (even if you didn’t want to) so it would get done, and done right.
Thank you for all the late night talks when I was stressed, and didn’t know what to do. You would listen to what was wrong and give me advice, not always the advice I wanted, but the advice I needed.
Thank you for all the “mom hugs” what you would give me when I would just come to you and say that I needed a hug. Or give me when you knew I needed it but didn’t ask.
Thank you for always putting Madeline and I first. We didn’t ask you to, or appreciate it enough, but you do every time and it has taught me a lot about selflessness.
Thank you for working from home so you can be more involved in our lives. Even though growing up, especially in high school, we thought it was annoying.
You’re not perfect, but none of us are. Thank you for teaching me that I don’t need to be perfect, and for reminding me when I need to be reminded of it.
Thank you for raising me to be Christ centered. You showed me at a young age where God provided for us and I understood what a relationship with Him looked like. You show Christ’s love everyday and you inspire me.
I would really like to thank you for just being my mother. It wasn’t easy for you finding out you couldn’t get pregnant. But thank you for trusting God, even when it was probably so hard to. Thank you for providing everything that my birth mother wasn’t able to provide. Of course I don’t know a lot about it. But I thank God everyday that He blessed me with the family He did. Thank you for loving me unconditionally the way a mother should. For hearing about the worst parts of me but loving me anyways. For staying up late to talk to me on facetime because of the time difference, and waking up in the middle of the night to text me back when I had a question. You do so much and for that I thank you.
Love,
Katie Bear
