I'm a Mom. And I Do NOT Like Mother's Day

[Seymour Flops]

Who thought it would be a great idea to have a holiday on which we're supposed to honor all the moms in our lives on the same day? Moms. Mother-in-laws. Grandmas. Great grandmas. There is almost no way to win unless you can somehow find a way to see, treat, and gift every single mother in your life.

Someone always loses. A lot of us do not care, but every family seems to have at least one woman who cares VERY VERY MUCH and makes Mother's Day her personal Day of Honor.

What I want for Mother's Day: my kids to save their money and live their best lives. What I get: STRESS.

Anyone else?

Yes, one of the many stresses of being a mom. We who are not moms but have moms will want to honor you that one day a year, and will feel guilty if we don't, because of how little time we had for you the rest of the year.

Play along, mom.

Ooh and Aah over the nice restaurant they can now afford to take you to and the James Avery "Wonderful Mother" charm, like you ooh'd and aah'd over the macaroni greeting card they made you in kinder.

Book a cruise that leaves on that Monday, let them feel guilty that they can't take off work to drive you to the port, and start the cycle again.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

My younger daughter was born on Mother's Day, and she loves that. So we celebrate both of us...

My daughter's birthday is the 11th so it sometimes falls on Mother's Day. She was an induced birth, so she wouldn't have been born on that Sunday.