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Funny & Heartwarming Instagram Captions for Mother's Day

Kaitlyn Yarborough, Assistant Editor and Writer for Southern Living
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Show your mother that you love and appreciate her by letting your friends and family know, loud and proud, on Mother's Day. (After you've given her a personalized card, gift, or bouquet of flowers, of course!) Thinking back on our childhood, we know she deserves every single ounce of praise she can get for putting up with our nonsense and molding us into functional, well-mannered adults. Whether with a funny quip or heartfelt message, let Mama know how you feel with these perfect Instagram captions that will stay put long after Mother's Day has come and gone. Start with these sweet messages, and throw on a great, big "Happy Mother's Day!"
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Captions that make her laugh:

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I love how we don’t have to say out loud that I’m your favorite child.

I got all my good qualities from you, Mom! Isn’t it lucky you had more than enough for both of us?

Raising me undoubtedly tested all of your parenting skills. You passed with flying colors!

A mother’s work is never done—but today, you deserve a rest. In fact, take the rest of the week off!

Man, I’m so happy this is where the stork dropped me!

Mom—you’re definitely one of my favorite parents.

Boy, I landed in a good nest.

Thanks for always loving me, even through all of my awkward phases.

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The best medicine in the world is a mother’s hug.

Home is wherever mom is.

But I love you so much more than just to the moon and back.

Not always eye to eye, but always heart to heart.

All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. –Abraham Lincoln

The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother. –St. Therese of Lisieux

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. –Gail Tsukiyama

Mothers hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.

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In a world full of trends, you always remain a classic.

Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.

Mother (n): cheap therapist and best friend

Mothers are like buttons—they hold everything together!

A worried mother does better research than the FBI.

Mom: A title just above Queen

Nothing is lost until your mother can’t find it.

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A mother is your best friend, first friend, and forever friend.

Where you lead, I will follow. –Gilmore Girls

I got it from my mama!

Partners in crime since (year you were born).

Love at first sight must be real, because I’ve loved my mom since my very first sight.

I love you a thousand yellow daisies. —For the Gilmore Girls lovers

My mother...she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. –Jodi Picoult

Mom, thank you for teaching me how to stop and smell the rosés.

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Everything I am, you helped me to be.

The only thing better than having you for a mom, is my children having you for a grandma.

Mom, you were right. About everything. There, I said it!

Thank you for being the glue that holds everything together, even when you feel like falling apart.

Whenever life has thrown curve balls, you have helped me hit them out of the park.

Thanks for being the mom everyone wishes they had. Lucky me!

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. –Rudyard Kipling

To the world you are a mother, but to our family you are the absolute world.

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She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. –Proverbs 31

As is the mother, so is her daughter. –Ezekiel 16:44

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Insanity is hereditary: you get it from your children!

I’m a mom, what’s your superpower?

A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.

Having kids makes you look stable to people who thought you were crazy, and crazy to people who thought you were stable. –Kelly Oxford

I’m not a regular mom, I’m a cool mom! –Mean Girls

This is a circus, and these are my monkeys.

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