How a Mom Loves a Daughter

She will hold you accountable for your actions,

but she will also be your biggest cheerleader, your unwavering cornerstone of support, the person who held you underneath her heart for all of those months.

She will not know what you life holds for you,

but she will dream with an open heart that all you do brings you happiness and love. She will wish that everything hard she’s ever had to go through in her life, will not happen to you. But when it does, she will be there to tell you how she got through it.

She might make you try new vegetables and foods,

but she will never let you go hungry, she will find a way to ensure you are safe, sheltered, healthy, and warm. No matter the cost to her own well being. And when you need to know how long to cook the chicken for when you get your first apartment, she’ll always know.

She will worry about you from the moment she learns about your existence until she takes her last breath,

but she will also teach you how to leap into new challenges. How to make yourself heard in world that still treats women differently.

She might not want to climb trees with you.

But she will always know where the band-aids are when you fall, and she will always challenge you to try again, to learn how to be independent – even when your new found independence causes her sleepless nights with lots of “FINE! DO WHATEVER YOU WANT!” at the end of heated arguments.

She won’t always know what to say when your heart is broken.

But your body will always fit with hers when she pulls you in for a hug, and when she strokes your hair you will feel such tenderness that it feels like being touched with unconditional love. And then? She will put on a Broadway musical, you will split up the roles, and sing through the entire play on a random road-trip to get your mind off of things.

She won’t know what that noise is your car is making.

But she will show you what number to turn the volume up to on your radio so you can’t even hear it anymore.