46 Reasons I love my Momma!

Ieda Bittencourt Sobreira Torres

Isn't She a Beauty?

So today is my mom's birthday and she will probably be pissed that I disclosed her real age by the 46 reasons I love her so. But here goes.

1. Carrying me for 9 months
2. Staying up with me late nights since I was a very bad baby and never slept but cried all night
3. Being with me at many emergency hospital visits (I WAS VERY ACCIDENT PRONE)
4. Having people think I look like her (what a compliment)
5. Being fun and active
6. Her love for dancing
7. Her stern but caring way of raising us
8. The way she would get mad if she caught you doing something naughty, but if you came and confessed she let it go
9. Her honesty
10. Her smile
11. How strong she is physically and emotionally
12. Her love and compassion for anyone, even strangers
13. Her ability to take people in and help them get on their feet
14. The day she called me after taking Nick to go play in the rain, something her mother never let her do
15. Her humor
16. Crying with me when I needed her too (happened alot, I'm kind of a baby)
17. Knocking common sense into my somewhat dense head
18. Encouraging me in anything I attempted
19. Being at dance recitals, choir concerts, basketball games, etc...
20. Always making us feel pretty for dances as we did photoshoots prior to dates pickiung us up
21. Always giving us everything we wanted, even when we probably didn't deserve it
22. Being a wonderful grandmother to a beautiful grandchild
23. Being so hard working
24. her dedication to everything she does
25. Her overwhelming love for her children
26. The way she let us make our own decisions and experience life for ourselves
27. Her counsel and advice
28. Her forgiveness when we sometimes made the wrong choices
29. My yellow car
30. My beautiful wedding
31. Her love for having the family close
32. Her concern for all things in life
33. Her quirks and imperfections
34. The way we can share clothes because she's so stylish
35. The way I sometimes steal her clothes and she doesn't mind (haha)
36. Her love for the gospel
37. Her strength in raising 3 great kids!
38. Her accomplishment of being married 27 years!
39. Her ability of looking this good and half her age!
40. My hopes of becoming half the mother she was to me
41. Her hand in helping me realize my dreams
42. All the sacrifices she has made to give us a better life
43. Her drive to improve herself always
44. Her will and commitment for going the second mile
45. Her strength to overcome hardships and making the best of them
46. and her example of what and excellent mother has been and always will be!

I love you mom!!! Have a wonderful birthday!!