Three Cheers for Victoria Botkin!

Happy Mother’s Day to the best mother in the world! Today we would like to honor our mother by posting the tribute that I read aloud to her on my 21st birthday:

I would like to take this opportunity to call to your attention the ones that really deserve the credit for my 21 years of life. I had very little hand in it, I can assure you.

First, my Heavenly Father, Who is the author of my existence and my future – my Sustainer and the Giver of Eternal Life.

And my earthly father, my God-ordained autho