Mother's Day

WOW. When you turn that word upside down you get the word MOM. Pretty appropriate for all the times they put up with screaming, yelling, fighting, whining, and crying, with a few smiles mixed in, and still maintain their sanity. Wow, Moms, it's hard to imagine how yo do it all, and you've still kept us around, you really are "Superwoman"! (Well, thanks for at least not telling us about the times you wanted to get rid of us ;)

When I was little, my sister and I would wake up early and "cook" breakfast in bed for my mom. By "cook" I mean pop some frozen Eggos in the toaster and fill a glass up with orange juice and put it on a tray to bring to my parents, waking them up way too early for a Sunday. We were excited, it was our day to do for Mom what she always did for us. It was the one day where we would try to be on our best behavior so that she didn't have to be stressed by scolding us with all of the usual: "The Mom Song." Sometimes that good behavior lasted the whole day, sometimes a couple of hours, but hey, we had good intentions.

Mother's Day is sort of like New Year's in the sense that we take the time to reflect and appreciate our moms for all of their hard work in raising us. We promise ourselves that we won't take Mom for granted this next year, that we will argue less, be more patient, and take the time to show we care more often, tell her she is the beautiful, wonderful, perfect "All-American Girl." But then a week goes by and suddenly all of those new promises fly out the window, just like New Years resolutions, and we are back to our old habits. Sorry about that, Mom.

As we got older, our family Mother's Day tradition changed a little bit. No longer were we toasting Eggos at 7 AM, but everyone was sleeping in and the Dads of the family were baking real pancakes and putting together fruit salad, bagels and lox platters, etc. I don't know how it started, but one year "Girl You Know It's True" was sung and it's just stuck. It's our mother's day theme song, and although out of context, completely true: "girl you know it's true, I love you."

After a delicious brunch it was then the kids' job to clean up, after all, it was the Moms' day to relax. This was just a small way of saying, "Thank You," for the massive job it is to be a mom.

So thank you, Mom, for putting up with everything over the years. Enjoy your one day of gratitude so we can go back to normal tomorrow ;)

But seriously, my favorite song about mothers, the Spice Girls' song, "Mama," says it all a little better than Milli Vanilli: I love you.