{"id":3079,"date":"2013-05-10T18:09:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bottomless.flywheelsites.com\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2014-10-15T15:31:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T15:31:28","slug":"dear-mom-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/?p=3079","title":{"rendered":"DEAR MOM, THANK YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In between hysterical calls and last minute transfers into my bank account, I have often wondered how you have done it. The idea of being a mom to me is one that is completely terrifying and at times repulsive as I envision diapers, screaming, and late nights (and the end of my own late nights). And now at the age of 28, as I still find myself calling you for everything from how long to boil an egg to what benefit plan to enroll in, I&#8217;ve realized that maybe those early days were the easy days. My sister and I have been a constant\u00a024\/7 duty for several decades. But through all the bad haircuts, bad boyfriends, and bad days, you have always been there to cheer me up and cheer me on, and I just wanted to thank you&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for carrying me for 9 months physically and for 28 years emotionally and financially.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for the emergency credit card, and thank you for realizing that sometimes buying a new outfit really is an emergency.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Thank you for teaching me to keep all the bad thoughts I have about others to myself and to you.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for\u00a0secretly\u00a0disposing of an expensive, non-refundable, hideous gold prom dress that was bought in desperation at David\u2019s Bridal, and for pretending it never happened and buying me a new dress.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for picking up text messaging so I can contact you at all times.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for teaching me right from wrong, like that it is right to go to the salon to get highlights and so very wrong to use Sun-In.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for letting me convince you to go to that sketchy slimming body wrap place.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for taking me and Briana to get our belly buttons pierced when we were under 18, and thank you for encouraging me to take it out.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Thank you for filing my income taxes for me, I promise to stay in one state this year.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for getting Dad to eventually always say yes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for always giving me whatever new clothes you were wearing right off your back when I compliment them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for taking me to the ER to get my head stapled back together at 3AM.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for teaching me socials skills and that a little orange juice and spirits can help me overcome my social awkwardness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for teaching me trust when you continually promised that I\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t\u00a0get E-coli while I watched you prepare meat and you always said, &#8220;I haven\u2019t poisoned you yet, have I?&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for not\u00a0poisoning\u00a0me.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for continually assuring me that I didn&#8217;t just poison myself.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for planning family vacations and when Krista and I spent the entire time crying and bitching thank you for not leaving us there.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for putting organic cheetos in my lunch.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Thank you for making me lunches all my friends were jealous of, even if I didn&#8217;t appreciate the hand carved turkey sandwiches at the time.<\/li>\n<li>Thank you for driving me to school when I missed the bus because I was having a &#8220;I have nothing to wear&#8221; fit.<\/li>\n<li>Thank you for signing on to be an on-call chauffeur and DD.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for never being in a bad mood, never taking a sick day, and for never not being there for me. (And I&#8217;m sorry that when you don&#8217;t pick up your phone I go into panic mode and call incessantly although it\u2019s almost never an emergency.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for the 500 replacement cell phones so that I can always call you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Thank you for always thinking about me to the detriment of your own mental health.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thank you for always reading my blog and then texting me how much you liked it and if there were any typos.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most importantly, thank you for teaching me how to be an amazing mother and I hope some day to be just like you.<\/p>\n<p>xoxo,<\/p>\n<p>your high maintenance daughter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xoxo, your high maintenance daughter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,174,1,214],"tags":[282,281,284,99,283,280],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-just-saying","category-uncategorized","category-thoughts-worth-thinking","tag-best-mom","tag-happy-mothers-day","tag-lessons","tag-mom","tag-parenting","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}