Dear Mum and Dad,
I hardly know what to say to you, other than ‘thank you’. There are so many things you both have done for our family, and for me specifically, that deserve gratitude. Many, many things you don’t always receive a thank-you for. The things we take for granted.
To Mum, thank you for the lunches you make me to take to university – they are always yummier than the ones I make. Thank you for the dinners, too, especially last semester when I was at campus late and would come home to a delicious meal. I really should cook more often for you and I’m sorry I don’t. I’m also sorry for not doing the dishes enough and for everything else I don’t help with even though I should. Thank you for not yelling at me about it, like some other mothers would. Thank you for teaching me so many things and for being so lovely.
To Dad, thank you for the financial support you have always provided us. We have never gone without, and while we’ve never been rich, we have always been comfortable and for that I am so grateful. Thank you also for the loans to buy electronics, and all the little bits of money I have borrowed here and there and still haven’t paid back. Thank you for all the things you have made and fixed, for the knowledge you have shared, and for all the music played on your acoustic guitar.
Most of all, thank you both for your unconditional love and support. I know I scared the shit out of you both during that particular time in my teens, and I am so blessed to have two parents who sought the help I needed at that time, and continued to do so as I worked through my stuff. Without you both, I don’t think I would have managed nearly as well as I have.
With all my love,
Your youngest, xox.