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Dear Mom

Something has happened to me this year. When becoming a mother, I realized how much you gave up for your children. How much love you gave us, how much time and energy you spent on us, and how many prayers you said in our behalf.

I really can’t express the words that I am feeling right now in my heart. I just want you to know how grateful I am for you. Motherhood is the hardest job there is, the most rewarding, but the hardest. I am grateful that you were willing to put everything on the table, put our needs before yours, and foremost be a mother for your four children.

I remember the day Kelly died, I also found out were called to be the new seminary teacher. So, in addition to losing my grandfather, I now was going to have my mom teach me in seminary every morning at 6 am before school. Needless to say, that day wasn’t the greatest. But the year and a half that followed contained some of the best memories I have had with you. In fact, it turned out to be one of the biggest blessings of my life.

As time passed and most of the kids in the class stopped coming to church, it was just you and me each day with an occasional guest… Dad. I remember one morning you still made me welcome us three out to seminary. It was ridiculous at the time, but that memory will always be so funny in my mind.

I can’t really remember specific lessons anymore, but I do remember the feelings I felt in those seminary classes. It was the feeling of the Spirit. As we gathered as a family to study the scriptures in our home, loved encompassed the room.

Your role as a mother did not stop with your children, Mom, and I hope you know that. I have never met any one who has taken such strong interests in certain individuals and reached out to them. You have touched so many people’s lives, the young and the old. All the letters you wrote and cookies you made (even if you threw coconut, cranberries, nuts, and raisins into them), they made so many people through the years feel loved and appreciated. You have gone to kids’ dance recitals, musicals, award nights. You have cooked for funerals, baby showers, and widows. I may not have always loved going to the nursing home each Sunday after church, but your example taught me to serve others even when it’s not always convenient or comfortable.

Most of all, you have taught me to always lean on the Lord for support. I have told you this before, but I can’t even count how many times I have accidentally walked in on you while you were on your knees praying. What an amazing sight that is. I am so blessed to have a mother who always went to our Heavenly Father for guidance and help. Because of that, I had a mother who always did her best to choose the right and to lovingly help her family.

I only hope that I can be half the mother you have been to your children and those around you.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Love,

Katie Lee

And you thought Eva had big cheeks…

My mom rocking the perm.

We were really attractive kids in the 1990s.  

2 replies
  1. mom
    mom says:

    What’s a mom to say after reading this. Thanks, Katie. I don’t deserve such kind words, but it did touch my heart and made me cry. Thanks, you’re the best.

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  2. mom
    mom says:

    What’s a mom to say after reading this. Thanks, Katie. I don’t deserve such kind words, but it did touch my heart and made me cry. Thanks, you’re the best.

    Reply

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