Thanks

Motherhood is a life of contradiction; self sacrifice and redemption. Endless, at times painful, love for your child, and a knowing that at times, you will be spurned. Investing your entire soul into a being you know will one day leave you. Trying not to lose yourself, while denying yourself at the same time.
Motherhood teaches lessons to our progeny that will take them years to understand; lessons in grace, respect, truth, dignity and love. The act of being a mother is often taken lightly; the act of mothering, never. To be a mother means a level of selflessness that earns commendations and medals in a man's world, and upturned noses in social circles when you tell people what your occupation is. Mothering is the art of separating yourself from that which you are most deeply connected to and the seemingly impossible task of pinning all your hopes while none of your dreams on your child.
To be a mom requires patience, determination, strength of character, wit, and a lot of tissues. It requires all of you, all the time.
It requires better treatment, better understanding than it gets.
To our moms, living or gone, all we can say is "Thank You", and give you this day, because there is no word in our lexicon that could ever convey the debt of gratitude that we owe you. You ARE heroes; the ones we will carry in our hearts forever-be you our own or the mothers of the shared joys that are our children.
Thank you, for everything.