Just a note: to get myself back on track, I’ve signed up for EcstasyMB‘s month long blog-a-thon. I’m excited.
For day 1 of the blog-a-thon, we are asked to simply write a letter to our mothers. For a lot of the other bloggers, I felt like it was a way of getting a lot of feelings out in the open or to just freely talk about how they felt about their mothers in general behind the anonymity of the internet. Well, my mother reads my blog. Do you know what? I’m glad. I’m going to write my mom a letter that I know she’s going to read and I don’t mind if you all read along.
Dear Mom,
Though you probably don’t know it, you have always been a source of inspiration in my life. From before the time I could talk, you filled my head with all sorts of amazing things. You were the first person that showed me that I could go anywhere without leaving my backyard, that I could travel somewhere just by reading it in a storybook, or that I could imagine anything that I wanted and none of it was wrong if it made me happy. You threw me the best birthday parties a girl could ever dream of – from moon bounces and carnivals in the back yard to pirate treasure maps that led to “real live buried treasure” in the sandbox if my friends and their little plastic shovels could dig it out for captain Caity. You made the holidays magical. I feel like they were even more magical than anyone else’s holidays and even Halloween had some cool tricks like the time you convinced us our house was haunted by a friendly ghost who knocked in the walls of the basement conveniently to yes or no answers and threw us candy.
I don’t think anyone else does as much as you did to make sure that your precious little girls enjoyed themselves in their lives. I’m not even talking just about kid parties and Santa Claus. When the time came to get through those hard parts of teenage and young adult life, you were right there with me, too – even when I didn’t want you to be. Those are the times that matter the most, though.
It’s every mother’s dream to have a little girl. I wasn’t always the most agreeable, the most clean (especially after mudpies or softball games in the rain), or the most thankful all the time – but I was your little girl. I hope that you know that I have always appreciated everything that you do even if I find words hard to express it at times. You have always been someone I have looked up to and admired. Everyone who meets you automatically loves you and there is definitely a reason why. Actually, there are lots of reasons why.
I only hope that one day I will have the chance to do some of the things that you did for me for children of my own and that they appreciate, love, and respect me as much as I appreciate, love, and respect you.
Forever,
Your eldest daughter, Caitlin
This was very well written and I’m sure she will appreciate it. If my mother was even at all technology savvy, I wouldn’t mind if she read my letter either. :)
That was a very sweet letter! I’m glad you have such a great mother and I think you would be a very good mother when you have children. :)
That was so incredibly adorable that I have no words :) I think it is every mother’s dream to have a little girl and I was such a disappointment to mine LOL
Thats good that you are on such good terms with your mother that you are comfortable with her reading your blog. I wish I was that comfortable with my mother. She would probably have a heart attack if she read my blog. :/
Very well written, and to the heart. Made me get all teary eyed! I am on the same page as you, though, as my mom does read my blog almost daily. I am glad you and your mom are so close. :)
Dude, moms. MOMS, am I right? Nothing makes me more sentimental than thinking about all of the sacrifices my mom has made for me in her life. Love this post, and I’m sure your mom loves it even more :)
Aaw, this letter made me cry! I’m SO glad she’s brought you so much joy in your life, and I can only hope to offer half of that to Adrian. I’m sure as hell gonna do my best!
Oh my God, Caitlin! I am crying my eyes out as I type this response to you, and my hands are shaking! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! You have NO IDEA what this letter means to me. AND, the fact that you don’t even mind sharing it with all you “blog friends” (is that what they are called?) makes me feel very special! ~ Caitlin, I would LOVE a print out of this letter! You know “low-tech” me . . . I don’t know HOW to print it! Would you please do me a HUGE favor and print it for me? This is, by far, the BEST GIFT you have ever given me! I LOVE YOU! ~ ALL MY LOVE, MOM XOXO
I have the goosebumps. This was so beautiful.
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I'm Caity! I am a New Yorker who married a Kiwi and recently moved across the world to New Zealand. I'm a math teacher who enjoys the outdoors, photography, video games, music, and general geekery.
Life is a great big adventure and I am beginning a whole new journey. It isn't always easy but it is always worth it. ♥
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