This magazine decided to forgo the usual focus on Mother’s Day that will be so prominently highlighted and marketed this month by everyone else. The commercialization of the recognition of mothers makes a lot of businesses a lot of money, and I’m certain this year will be no exception.
Mothers all over the land will be taken out to brunch or dinner and thanked for their efforts and devotion with a meal, perhaps some flowers, or maybe both. Perhaps they won’t go out, with the way the economy is, and served “breakfast in bed,” or something like that.
In any case, the sentiment will be to try to give “Mommy” something special to signify the day that has been set aside to do just that. It’s actually a great idea, but it only works if the sentiment is real and the children one has worked so hard to raise, to nurture, to guide, and to educate, feel grateful and pleased with the effort and the result.
If they are happy and loving, they will love you back and let you know you are being appreciated.
If they are caught in the throes of growing, they may not, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are not appreciating you or what you do or have done — it just means they are doing the life thing. Ah, the life thing.
As a mother, the life thing means to me that every day is Mother’s Day, because almost every day since I became a mother I have had some Mommy work to do. I have, for the most part, enjoyed this work more than anything else I have ever done. It has been more rewarding and more fulfilling than anything else, and I have done a lot of things.
Wishing our absent Mommy and partner, Sharon Noble, congratulations on the recent birth of her son Gregory, and all of you mothers who read our magazines a Happy Mother’s Day, means I am wishing you that every day, because as every mother knows, every day is Mother’s Day.
Thanks for reading!
