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I thank you for craving sushi everyday while you were pregnant. My life wouldn't be the same without it.

I thank you for taking me to buy that pink jean GUESS skirt and white leather high top LA gears with the Rhine stones on the side in the first grade because you didn't want me to feel out of place in a new school.

I thank you for letting me watch Dynasty way past my bed time but closing my eyes when there was any kissing on screen.

I thank you for grounding me the first time I lied to you: I was in the fourth grade and lied to you about what my friends and I were doing. I admitted it to you in the middle of the night and you grounded me. The lesson was not to ever lie to you; but to never do anything I would feel guilty about later.

I thank you for telling me that I'm tone death after 6 years of piano lessons by showing me a video of my recital. I thank you for sparing me the embarrassment of many more.

I thank you for teaching me that your parents and your siblings are your best friends.

I thank you for teaching me the pleasure one gets from breakfast in bed and decorating the fruit in a pyramid.

I thank you for not hugging me at your father's funeral when I came up to you and telling me to go hug my grandmother instead.

I thank you for teaching me the importance of not giving up, regardless of the sweat and tears.

I thank you for teaching me to always say "thank you" "please" "ma'am" and all those Yiddish sayings that insult with a smile.

I thank you for teaching me to build a brick wall with a steel gate when surrounded by those that are trying to demean or intimidate me.

I thank you for the times you offered senior citizen at bus stops in the rain rides regardless of how out of our way it was.

I thank you for all of relatives and friends of relatives that you let live in our house when they immigrated to the united states because as you said, 'We have more."

I thank you for jumping on the hotel bed and screaming "Isn't Mama Fun?" and then...