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This amazing woman is my mama.

And today she turns 60.

I don’t think she’d be at all embarrassed or upset by my sharing this fact with the whole wide Interwebs, given all the beauty that she’s managed to create in those sixty years of life.

To know my mother is to know me. She’s given me my sensitivity. My passion. My crazy. My relentless will to champion and cheerlead for others. She is my fiercest ally and advocate. She has taught me to play the strong Mama Bear role, and well. Don’t you dare cross our cubs or you will have a tough and unrelenting enemy. One with a booming voice and tendency to speak loudly, passionately and boldly without fear or self-doubt.

She’s instilled in me a sense of self and self worth.

I don’t know if there is a more important thing a mother can do for her daughter.

I can only hope to do the same for my girls.

Oh, and these dudes are pretty darn lucky to have her around, too.

Happy Birthday, Momar. Our wardrobes, our homes, our gardens, our parties, our tables, and most importantly, our daily lives would be at a loss without you.

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