We are so thankful for our moms, and it’s no different wherever they are in the world.

1. Thank you for putting me to bed after I’d fall asleep mid-bite during lunchtime.

2. For cleaning my favorite shirt 473 times a day because I didn’t understand the phrase, “I just washed that.”

3. For putting me in the shopping cart and then taking me out ever 47 seconds when we would go shopping because making up my mind wasn’t one of my strengths.

4. For doing whatever it took to make sure there was food in the cupboards.

5. For making the best food. Even top ramen tastes better when you make it.

6. For teaching me how to do the dishes…which looking back might have been done more for your benefit than mine… but still, I am so thankful.

7. For teaching me that what I wear isn’t as important as who I am

8. For not letting me go out in public with a spaghetti sauce mustache

9. For taming my hair…even when I won’t sit still

10. For choosing life…

11. For introducing me to my Creator

12. For the doctors waiting rooms, the medicine, the holding me until I fall asleep, and all the tears that have soaked your shirt

13. For making me eat my fruits and veggies…well…what was left of what I wasn’t able to sneak to the dog under the table

14. For playing WITH me and not just sending me outside

15. For supporting me in the good moments I am so thankful…

16….and holding me in bad ones.

17. For teaching me the power of prayer

18. For helping me through the morning routines, at least, that’s what we called it. I know ‘Morning Mayhem‘ is probably a more accurate title.

19. For helping me find shoes that match (for the most part), helping me get them on the right feet (for the most part), and for tying them for me.

20. For being the grammar police with my homework. I guess you were right, I would thank you someday for doing that.

21. For loving me so selflessly and meeting every need, no matter how demanding or special I am especially so thankful

22. For using tickling tactics to strengthen my bladder control

23. For the time outs. At the time, they were so unfair, now I have kids…you were too nice.

24. For teaching me how to provide for my own family.

25. For getting candy-flavored cough medicine that made that disgusting taste a little more bearable

26. For walking me to school. Uphill. Both Ways.

27. For teaching me that blisters and sweat are a gift, not a curse

28. For leading with your actions more than your words we are so thankful

29. For making your arms a safe zone and not complaining when I’d drool on you

30. For loving me the way that you do!!!

Mothers are some of the most important people we will ever have in our lives. While life may look different around the world, mothers share a global bond and a shared passion for the little people they’ve been entrusted with. And for that, we thank them.

This Christmas season, we encourage you to pray about sponsoring a child and their mother in a developing country. Your donation helps her provide for her child not just with food but also with the Gospel.