Thank you

Thank you for a lifetime of caring for me

Thank you for earning the money to raise me

Thank you for putting the raisins in my lunch bag

Thank you for explaining mathematics

Thank you for making injuries not too bad after all

Thank you for being there when I needed you

and for surprises

Thank you for giving me your complete attention when I explained my work to you

Thank you for stocking me with songs to last a lifetime

Thank you for showing me the setting sun for the first time

and walking me in the pouring rain and for letting me bring home rocks and shells and fallen branches,

Thank you for housing my pet and for the exitement of being alive

Thank you for enduring the unendurable, for making something out of nothing ,

for giving when your pockets were empty, for loving me and doing the impossible with a smile

Thank you for being there come fire,flood and penury .

Thank you to help us deal with whatever life brings

Thank you for being interested - but never prying

For being loving-but never drowing me in love

For building me a nest- but letting me fly free

and a BIG THANK YOU for opening all doors for me - but never shoving me through them

this one is for you ma and dad