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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Happy Birthday Mom!

Growing up, you always read to me.
I don't remember exactly when... or how often... but it sure seemed like a lot.
I had my favorite books... the ones I knew all the words to because we read them so much.
And you had your favorite books... the ones that we read over and over because I loved you and you loved them.

There is one in particular that occasionally still runs through my head...

That teenager grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a grown-up man. He left home and got a house across town. But sometimes on dark nights the mother got into her car and drove across town. If all the lights in her son's house were out, she opened his bedroom window, crawled across the floor, and looked up over the side of his bed. If that great big man was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

Well, that mother, she got older. She got older and older and older. One day she called up her son and said, "You'd better come see me because I'm very old and sick." So her son came to see her. When he came in the door she tried to sing the song. She sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always...

But she couldn't finish because she was too old and sick. The son went to his mother. He picked her up and rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And he sang this song:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my Mommy you'll be.

-Taken from "Love you Forever" by Robert Munsch


I know I'm grown up now... and each year that you have a birthday I have one too. I know that sometimes that makes you sad because I am no longer your "little"girl. But I will always be your daughter.

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
as long as I'm living,
My mommy you'll be.

I love you mom.
Happy Birthday.

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