It's What Mom Really Wants for Mother's Day
by Carolina Fernandez
A good night's sleep. Without interruption.
A clean house. Without asking for it.
Food in the fridge. With the shelves cleaned out before the new stuff goes in.
Breakfast in bed. With dark chocolate on the side.
Time to read a book. Without pictures.
Laundry folded. As if you knew that.
What mom really wants for Mother's Day is for you to be her mind-reader. To know before she even asks for it what it is she really wants.
Moms of newborns and toddlers are too sleep-deprived to be articulate. You need to figure her out because she cannot quite put her desires into words. Moms of teens are too emotionally-charged to be sensible. You need to understand that she is hormonally-challenged (very low in the estrogen department) at exactly the same time that she is parenting other hormonally-challenged creatures (very high in the testosterone or estrogen departments) who, for the first time ever, are witty enough, quick enough and strong enough to stand up to her! (I never understood this law of nature by the way!) Moms with fully-grown kids are both thrilled at new-found freedoms but saddened by the lack of feathers in their nests. You need to provide her with the stimulation of which she had become accustomed.
I find that my own desires for Mother's Day change with each passing year. They have ranged from getting away from it all to a deep-seated desire to be particularly close to home. From hoping for another baby to praying... Read more
M is for the Many Things...
On Mother's Day, it seems appropriate to ponder what other people have said about motherhood. Some quotations for your enjoyment:
"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." ~ Marion C. Garretty
"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." ~ Irish Proverb
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young." ~ Author Unknown
"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." ~ Phyllis Diller
"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." ~ Chinese Proverb
"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." ~ Calvin Trillin
"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after." ~ Peter De Vries
"Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life." ~ Author Unknown
"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." ~ Mark Twain
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be ... Read more
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