Mother Love in The Day To Day Ramblings

So it’s my mom’s 60th birthday on Sunday and I want to write a poignant, thoughtful, wonderful card full of all of the amazing gratitude and love I feel for her. She has singlehandedly kept me afloat through Leah’s pregnancy and NICU stay and newborn days and is my pillar of strength and wisdom. I love her more than I can find the words to say. I don’t really know how I expect you guys to help but do you have any ideas on how you possibly put into words or explain how much someone means to you when they gave up their everything to hold you up when you were drowning? I think I want to say something along the lines of “I never knew how much a mother loved their child until I became a mother myself…but yet your selfless, unending, powerful love for me continues to blow me away, even now that I get it.” But probably more poetic and articulate than that.

Any ideas? Thoughts? How do you possibly convey this kind of love in a card while also not writing something so cheesy it loses its purpose?

Edit

I decided to write one a long thank you note to her. I started each sentence off with “Thank you for…” and then noted a specific thing or event or way she has helped me during my pregnancy and during Leah’s birth and while Leah has been growing. Then I included two pages of journal entries I’d written here, detailing conversations I had with her, my personal feelings about her and my thankfulness for her in my life. I didn’t write them intending for her to read them but in some ways that almost makes them more poignant. I’m planning to simply write “Happy birthday, Mom. Thank you.” in her card and including printed sheets of the phrases and entries above. I hope she likes it :)

Last updated February 28, 2015