Michelle and Barack Obama send touching Happy Birthday messages to her mom

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Former First Couple, Michelle Obama and Barack Obama took to social media to wish Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson, happy birthday this week.

The couple both shared heartfelt messages on their Instagram pages to celebrate Robinson on her special day, according to Huffington Post.

Michelle Obama honored her mother, who turned 82 on Tuesday, by sharing a black and white photo of Robinson on her page from her younger days.

 

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Whenever I see this picture, and the look in my mother’s eyes, I wonder if she has any idea what’s coming in the decades ahead: Real love and real loss, children and grandchildren who’d keep her on her toes, a wild ride to places she’d only read about or seen on television. But I also see something else in those eyes, something that guided me every day from the moment I was born—her unflappable belief that whatever came her way, she’d manage it. And because she’d manage, we all would, too. Happy birthday, Mom. I love you!

A post shared by Michelle Obama (@michelleobama) on Jul 29, 2019 at 11:48am PDT

The 44th president also shared his appreciation for his mother-in-law by thanking her for always being there for not only supporting her daughter and grandchildren, but him as well.

 

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Over the years, you’ve probably seen Michelle’s mom, Marian Robinson, in photos with our family at inaugurations, Christmas tree lightings, Easter Egg Rolls, and a whole lot more. But what you haven’t seen is the way she’s been there for us every day—not just for Michelle and our daughters, but for me, too. I’ve always appreciated her steadiness, her perspective, and the way a wisecrack from her reverberates around the room. Happy birthday, Marian—here’s to many more.

A post shared by Barack Obama (@barackobama) on Jul 29, 2019 at 11:57am PDT

Michelle Obama, has always publicly shown her admiration for her mother and her strength. This past Mother’s Day, she wrote an essay for PEOPLE to share the valuable lessons she learned from her mom and how she plans to pass them down to her daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama.

“In today’s world, it’s easy to hear all that and think that Marian Robinson was bordering on negligent, that she was letting the kids rule the roost,” she wrote. “But the reality was far from that. She and my father, Fraser, were wholly invested in their children, pouring a deep and durable foundation of goodness and honesty, of right and wrong, into my brother and me. After that, they simply let us be ourselves.”