Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to the baddest binch I know and my bestest friend in the entire world. Thanks for always being the Lorelai to my Rory 💖 "But my ultimate inspiration comes from my best friend, the dazzling woman from whom I received my name and my life’s blood, Lorelai Gilmore. My mother never gave me any idea that I couldn’t do whatever I wanted to do or be whomever I wanted to be. She filled our house with love and fun and books and music, unflagging in her efforts to give me role models from Jane Austen to Eudora Welty to Patti Smith. As she guided me through these incredible eighteen years, I don’t know if she ever realized that the person I most wanted to be was her. Thank you, Mom: you are my guidepost for everything.”

A video posted by francesca gariano (@francescapauline) on May 8, 2016 at 6:09am PDT

 My mom told me to start writing this post three weeks ago because she thought it would take me that long to fully describe her for a post. I joked that I was going to make today's post all about how my brother turned 18 (which is also true and kind of scary because he's getting so old), which didn't make my mom laugh as much as I thought it would. I shouldn't even be writing this post, considering she told me that she didn't like Lorelei Gilmore this evening when I finally let her see the Instagram post above. #Rude, am I right? Regardless of that, I suppose I should let it slide. It's her only fault, really.

I feel like the quote from Rory's valedictorian speech pretty much sums it up for me. Change Lorelei Gilmore to my mom's name, swap out Jane Austen, Eudora Welty and Patty Smith and you know, change eighteen to twenty. Really, the meat of the quote is still the same.

In lieu of being too cheesy on here, my mom is the best mom in the world. I know everyone says this about their own mothers, and I'm sure they're right, so maybe I should change it to "my mom is the best mom for me."

Hope everyone enjoyed today with their mom, aunt, grandma, whoever plays that role in their life!