For My Parents...

I was going to send you a paper note, but then I realized I had too much to say (and I can backspace on the computer and I ran out of white-out...).

Thank you.

Thank you for all of the things that you taught me as a child, but more importantly thank you for mentoring me as an adult.

Thank you for letting our successes and failures be OUR successes and failures.

Thank you for letting us be adults.

Thank you for not feeling entitled to anything.

Thank you for teaching us when to be the better person and when it's not worth it.

Thank you for be understanding.

Thank you for answering late Friday night calls from me and early Saturday morning calls from Army Guy.

Thank you for playing board games with Thing 1 and Thing 2 with corrected rules that don't make sense.

Thank you for appreciating the uniqueness of each one of the grandchildren.

Thank you for enjoying our insane life.

Thank you for letting us just be us.

Thank you for talking us off the ledge.

Thank you for asking questions instead of assuming you know how we feel or what we want.

Thank you for not attaching strings.

Thank you for teaching us that life is a constant learning lesson--that at no point, do any of us know it all.

Thank you for making mistakes and teaching us how to admit we made mistakes.

Thank you for being you.

Love,
Me, Army Guy, Thing 1, Thing 2 and Sam-I-Am.

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