Thank You-

Thank you for dresser drawer beds and whisky shot glasses instead of bassinets and sippy cups.

 

Thank you for little smocked dresses with mice scattered across the fabric.

 

Thank you for prickley pears and magnolia blossoms.

 

Thank you for piggy back rides and starry nights.

 

Thank you for sleepovers on the roof and under a bush.

 

Thank you for slingshots, pellet guns, roller skates, and no knee pads, wrist guards, or helmets.

 

Thank you for swimming lessons, violin lessons, ballet lessons, and never letting me overschedule my life.

 

Thank you for instilling me with a love of music, beauty, and poetry.

 

Thank you for letting me swing out over the highway  on a rope attached to a tree branch.

 

Thank you for rides in the back of pick ups- without seatbelts or carseats.

 

Thank you for cookie batter, cake batter, and pie crust with cinnamon and sugar.

 

Thank you for bedtimes and curfews.

 

Thank you for fried balogna sandwiches on Roman Meal Bread, celery sticks with peanut butter, and thermoses full of cold WHOLE milk.

 

Thank you for weeks at grandma’s, trips to Oklahoma, and camping in the desert.

 

Thank you for dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits,  hampsters, goldfish, oh, and the kangaroo rat.  Poor little thing.

 

Thank you for opportunities to fail as well as succeed, to get hurt as well as have fun, and for not trying to make me live in a bubble.

 

Thank you for years of financial sacrifice so I could have a good education.  Your grandchildren benefit daily.

 

Thank you for being you.  As uncle Gene’s song says, you’re so good at it.