Today is April 11, 2011. This is the most important day on any calendar anywhere in the world. Why you ask? Because IT'S MAH BIRTHDAY!!!! THAT'S WHY!!!!
So 19 years ago today I was a newborn babe (no swaddling clothes unfortunately...they left me butt ass naked for a while. jk they had a blankie ready). I don't really have much else to say besides thank you to all of my friends who have supported me for so long (and for an awesome weekend leading up to today) and a very very VERY special thanks to my family for making me who I am today. And last but not least to my parents, without whom I literally could not be here today, especially my mom. For so long she's been both parents to me. She been the one to correct me when I'm wrong and to congratulate me when I'm right. She's shown up to ridiculous school events that were not at all important to anyone but me. She's watched me recite poems at harvest festivals, play piano badly at recitals, watched me pretend to be a tiny ballerina in a black leotard and a pink tutu and climb trees even though she knew I would eventually fall out of said trees (I have the scars to prove her wisdom). My mother went through a whole day of labor to give birth to a tiny six and a half pound "cute red little alien no bigger than my hand," according to my grandmother. And over the course of the following nineteen years, my mother struggled and fought and succeeded to give me the life she thought I deserved and I thank her for every minute of those years. In all honesty we fight like Holyfield and Tyson sometimes but after that's all said and done she's still my best friend in the whole world.
So what I'm getting at here is that today is really her day and not mine. I simply was born and screamed a little, while she pushed and endured my demanding newborn ass for a day (possibly more) and delivered a whole new life into the world. Today is not just my birthday, today is the day the most amazing woman in the world became my mother.
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