Happy Mom's Day!

Wishing everyone a happy Mother's Day!!

I'd like to thank my own Momma today....

She's been super-duper supportive, patient and encouraging this past year. And Lord knows she never needed to be, considering her only child up and decided to move to NYC to pursue an acting career... YIKES.

Thanks for everything, Mom. I love you!

I'd also like to say "Happy Mother's Day" to my aunts, sister-in-law, "adopted aunts" (you know who you are) and all of the other inspirational and, sometimes, "mother-like" women in my life who were instrumental in making me who I am today.

BUT... 
Perhaps, above everyone else... I want to wish Happy Mother's Day to an extremely important someone we lost unexpectedly on this holiday exactly 5 years ago.....

....one of my very best friends, My Grandma Irene.

Dear Gramma,

Happy Grandma's Day!!

Where have the years gone? It seems just yesterday you were reading "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" to me on your big, flower-print couch. 

I can't tell you how much I miss watching "Father of the Bride: Part II", drinking wine and sitting on the vine-covered front porch with you. 

I wish you were here to see all of the exciting things we're all are up to these days... And, I wish you were here this Mother's Day so we could take you to Bachmann's for some flowers and then to Weiderholt's for dinner and an Old Fashioned.

But then again, I know that the way things worked out were, perhaps, all for the best. Because I'm positive that now you're more here with me in NYC than you ever could've been while still living in your green stucco house on South 2nd Street in Cannon Falls. And I guess I'm OK with that.

We're all doing just fine, but we miss you.  

Love you always and much,

Brooke

Happy Mother's Day to you and yours.

XOXO

~B