To My Beautiful Wife, Tami,
I want to thank you today, for being you. I am so grateful for all that you are for us, for our kids. For how you have battled for our relationship, and to hold on to 'higher things'...and for the direct gift that is to our kids.
I want to thank for giving yourself to them, selflessly over and over. For showing them that the world is not all about them. And, for showing them that they are loved, that they are enjoyed.
I love the way you 'hang' with them, being you...and being with them. I love how you draw them in...to the things you do in this life.
I love the way you commit yourself to the things they need...even the things that feel endless, like chores and picking up and communicating and doing the things in life that 'just need to be done', to BE a family.
They look forward to dinner every night and that is a wonderful thing, the regularity of it. The warmth of it. The humanness of it. And, the taste of it! I'm glad you foster an environment that makes it good to eat together. I'm glad you make them clean-up when we're done.
I'm glad for our home and all that you 'motherly do' (it's clean, it's beautiful, it's inviting) that makes everyone just 'want to be here'.
I'm grateful for your hard work outside of the home, even when that seems overwhelming...and for what that communicates about life to the girls and to Conner.
I'm grateful that even as mother, you also take time to be my wife. Hard roles, at times, to effortlessly switch in and out of.
I love you, Tami. And, am so grateful for you this Mothers Day.
Dana
