I’m grateful for my wife as a mother. She’s mothered my sons, our five children. Over 25 years she’s been a step mom, a birth mom, a foster mom and an adoptive mom. via /r/gratitude

This may get lost today in the many posts about gratitude for moms but I still have to say it. When we first started dating almost twenty-five years ago my wife said she wasn’t sure if she ever wanted to be a mom. Now, here we are. She helped raise my three sons from my first marriage. Two of them even lived with us. She’s been a foster mom to kids who’d lost their own bio moms. She’s adopted three children from foster care. She’s been an incredible mom to the two kids we had together. She’s given so much of her life to children and trying to give them loving, beautiful childhoods. She’s never given up hope or given up on any child even when presented with enormous challenges.

My wife has inspired and motivated me to be better. She’s been mom to so many and made so many lives better.