A daughter, a mother

Happy Birthday ami

Thank you for being the best mother you could have been given your wounds and challenges

Teenagers are difficult to parent and given my wounds and challenges I'm doing the best I can with my kid

Some days you failed

Some days as a mother I fail too

But as a mother I have learned something I could not have learned as a daughter

I love my daughter...

and I'm doing the best I can giving her everything I've got...

and some days it's not enough...

or even what she needs...

and some days I don't know how to give her what she needs!

And yet I know without a doubt I do it all out of love for her 

Because I love her...

As a mother I now know you love your daughter too

As a daughter, to you my mother, know I love you endlessly 

I always have

Even on days I hated you

I hated you because I loved you