MOTHER!!...

Shacks it's Mother's Day...❤❤❤

Mother,

If God gave me a chance to choose my mother, I would still choose you over and over again. I remember my childhood like it was yesterday with so much love.  I remember when you would clean me up but I would go out to play and come back to the house later looking like some 'ghost', all white as if I worked for a cement company 😂😂. Sometimes I would come back covered in Red soil,  as if I work in some construction site somewhere. I would stare at you with innocent eyes and You would look at me with helplessness but still clean me up again and dress me in clean clothes.  I call that LOVE ❤. I remember sometimes I would clean the dishes so fast so that I could go and play but in the process I would break so many cups and plates.  Being the African mother you are, you would say to me,  "come for the ones in cupboard and break them too" 😂😂. You rarely beat me for that. I call that LOVE!!!.

So many times you would send me to the shop to buy you something and I would forget, Instead I would go play. Yoooo!!!! Mother,  your beatings helped me think straight and be responsible. When I look back, I am thankful that you actually beat me 😂😂. So many times you would ask me to go look for your slippers since they would somehow disappear from the usual place, but little did you know I used to take them and cut them up. I would make rubber wheels for my handmade toy cars.  Sorry about that mum,  now you are aware of what used to happen to your house shoes!!!😂😂. Did I just confess that? 🙈🙈... Help me Lord!!!

Sometimes, there wouldnt be enough but so many times I saw you give up your piece of bread for me just make sure I am full. So many times you would give up your plate of food even for a neighbor's kid.  You would make comments like, "I had already eaten", "I don't like bread". I could see in your eyes that you are in need but mum you still stood your ground to make me, my siblings and others happy, safe and content. I could see you thirst for many things,  but you made sacrifices for me.  You couldnt buy yourself a new pair of shoes but instead you would buy a new pair for me.  You would walk into a boutique, but you would never buy Yourself a new dress. Instead you would buy dresses for me so that I would look the part. You know Mama, you taught me unconditional love.  You taught me how to make sacrifices for others even when they don't deserve it. I look at you today and see LOVE. Only a mother can give up her food for her child.  Only a mother can wear torn shoes so that her child can wear new ones. Only a mother can look at her child with such eyes, eyes full of compassion, understanding, appreciation and gratitude.

Thank you mum for always attempting to keep me happy, safe, protected and nourished. Thank you for your kindness, caring and immeasurable patience. Thank you for looking out for me even when I didn't think I needed it and for letting me fall when I had to learn by making my own mistakes. Thank you for always being there; for waiting up and worrying, for the lectures and the endless concerns. Thank you for laughing with me, even though I knew at times that you were also laughing at me. Thank you for the limitless hugs, kisses and for the support I receive from you every single day. Thank you mom for keeping me warm, for keeping me calm and for keeping me sane. Thank you for understanding that there were times that I would be mad with you but always forgiving me in the end. Thank you for sticking up for me, for encouraging me, for believing in me and for letting me know that you never expected more than the best I could do. Thank you for teaching me to be honest, courteous, appreciative and loving. Thank you for trying to teach me to be neat and tidy, even though it didn't work.

Thank you for teaching me to try to see the best in people, to be diplomatic in the face of conflict, and when I had no choice but to fight, to fight fair. Thank you mom for instilling in me a love for travel, books, flowers, photography and food. Thank you for nurturing me to always try something new and to keep an open mind. Thank you for the thousands of back rubs, millions of phone calls, and for always sending me home with left-overs. Still, to this day, you spoil me and I am incredibly grateful for it. Thank you mom for showing me how much beauty is around me, and reminding me of it constantly when my world feels dark and frightening. Thank you for the endless stories, songs and games when I was young, and the endless conversation and knowing smiles now that I am older.

Thank you for putting up with my napkins when I was a baby, my know-it-all teenage years, my sometimes insane 20's and the emotional roller coaster.  And through it all, thank you for loving me no matter what. Thank you mom for being so smart, so beautiful, so wise and so talented. It's nice to know that I have the potential somewhere in my genetics to possibly one day be as special as you. Mom, the words "I love you" are not adequate enough to express how grateful I am to be your daughter, how much you are appreciated or how much you will always mean to me, so I will simply say: Thank you mom for being my superhero, my expert-in-everything and my very best friend. You are one awesome 😱😱😱😜 humanbeing. 

Love,

Your Daughter ❤❤❤