47 'new' reasons why I LOVE MY AMMA

It is my mother's birthday and I'm not with her :(

But I don't feel so bad any more that I am not with her. Here is my birthday card for Amma...


47 'new' reasons why I LOVE MY MOM

1.     My mom is the most beautiful woman I have seen. I can try all kinds of cosmetics and never see myself nearly as beautiful as her.

2.     For a small and petite woman she is capable of taking surprisingly heavy loads. For example, me.

3.     She makes the most delicious akki rotti-chutney in the world.

4.     I love the smile on her face when she gets a ‘white chocolate’ (Milky Bar)

5.     She can solve the very hard su-do-ku puzzle in minutes.

6.     She is the best teacher I have ever had; she taught me how to live and that’s why I love my mom.

7.     My mother writes amazing poetry; I love it that she has written one about me.

8.     When I have completely given up on everything she does everything to make me smile.

9.     She supports me ,more than four pillars can support a roof.

10.  I love the way she hugs me when I go home for the weekend.

11.  I love the way she laughs at all my jokes.

12.  I love the jokes she tells me, even if it is read out from magazines.

13.  I love the way she wonders how I turned out to be so perfect.

14.  I love the way she trusts my decision.

15.  I love it that she asks me for fashion tips.

16.  I love the innocence with which she watches Tom and Jerry

17.  I love the way she grumbles about school.

18.  I love the way she corrects her students’ papers and gives extra marks.

19.  I love the way she asks for help in the kitchen.

20.  I love how she asks if she can help with my project.

21.  I love the way she makes faces when I say ‘Chinese food’

22.  I love the way she can sit inside the house and feel it when dad is at the corner of the road.

23.  love the way she fusses over me before I go out.

24.  When she calls and asks me when I can bunk class and come home..

25.  I love it when people say ‘you look just like your mom’.

26.  When she doesn’t agree that I am taller than her.

27.  When she says, ‘what do I wear tomorrow? I have no sarees…’ like a teenager…

28.  I love it that when I was a kid she told me kiddish jokes and when I was a teenager she told me teenager jokes.

29.  I love the way she cooks

30.  I love the way she cleans up my room

31.  I love the way she pleads me to stop chatting so that she can play chess on my laptop.

32.  I love it that she can beat my computer in chess.

33.  When she watches serials on tv..

34.  When she chooses what she’s eating in a hotel

35.  When she ALWAYS asks for dosa.

36.  The way she always agrees to dad

37.  The way she always agrees with me

38.  The way she tells me; ‘don’t argue, I don’t know how to argue with you!’

39.  I love it that she is ALWAYS strong when I am weak.

40.  I love it that she never lets me down.

41.  I love it that she trusts my decisions, no matter what it is. I listen to her by my own choice.

42.  I love the way she passed her patience to me

43.  I love it that she thinks I am better than her, when I have always thought I want to be like my mom. It is true, I want to become like my mom.

44.  I simply love her ‘motherliness’.

45.  I love it when she says ‘it is so boring without you’!

46.  I love the way she makes fun of all the other grown-ups, as though she is one of the kids.

47.  I love my mother, for the obvious reason that I love my mother.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMMA!!