So Sunday is Mother's Day. I love this day! I get to open presents, get waited on hand & foot. Breakfast in bed. Dinner cooked for me. The works! That's right, I celebrate Mother's Day. I figured out a long time ago that this was the 1 day of the year especially reserved for me, since everybody always calls me a mother. As a matter of fact, I went and used a Mother's Day coupon for lunch today.(the waitress smiled knowingly as I gave it to her)
I'm only partially kidding of course. I don't get any of that crap done for me on Mother's Day, although I do get called a mother a lot. I really feel like this is a holiday worth celebrating! First off, if it weren't for our mom's, most of us wouldn't be here. This was the first woman (and only in some cases) to tell us she loved us. When you hurt, she hurt. When you cried, she cried (hypothetically speaking of course. Mine always threatened to give me something to cry about!). She was who you looked up to.
She was the one that told you she didn't think it was a good idea to jump out of a 15' tree into 4' of water, right before you did it any way. (she was also the one who gave you the bag of ice for your ankles after you jumped) She's the one who washed your mouth out with soap when she heard you say "hell" and said "I didn't raise you to use vulgar language". The one who covered her eyes as your dad doctored your wounds. The one who cradled your head in her lap when you went over the handlebars of your bicycle. The one who made a poultice for what must have been the 500 bee stings you suffered as a kid. The one who got mad at your dad when he played a practical joke on you & scared you 1/2 to death!
Remember back when you were a little kid? You'd ask your mom for a piece of gum, and she always had that 1/2 a piece left in her purse. Remember how she always let you choose the piece of fried chicken first, then took the burnt one, cuz she "liked it really done"? She's the one that stayed up all night making you a special book bag cuz you saw a kid with one and you had to have it! Or how no matter how many dogs you drug home, she always let you keep 'em? Remember how she was always in the stands supporting you during sporting events? Remember how many times she took you to the emergency room after sporting events?
And how about the mom's that we're married to? Pretty special group of ladies too! Without them, we wouldn't have hours upon hours of entertainment from offspring! We'd have no one to correct us! We'd have no one to make us realize how completely incompetent we truly are! Very few of the male species could actually schedule and prepare a party for 15 kids while simultaneously doing laundry, blow drying our hair, cooking dinner for the family, re-writing grandma's will, and giving Fido a bath. To every dad out there; don't forget to do something special for the mom that you married. She did something very special for you by giving you them little boogers to play with! (and chances are, me included, that she does a whole lot of stuff for your kids that you never even know about, or even think about!)
I think, in some weird way, most men are secretly jealous about the fact that their wives got to have babies and they didn't. Oh, who am I kidding. There's not one straight guy out there who's jealous over that! As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure the human population would shrivel up and die if it were left up to men to birth babies!("that's gonna come out of WHAT?") Uh-uh. Ain't gonna happen! Get me a dog instead! They're easier to take care of anyway.
Thank you to all mom's everywhere! I hope you all have a very happy Mother's Day!!!
And I did use a Mother's Day coupon for lunch today! :)
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