No matter what your current status as a mother is… if you’re reading this, you had a mother who brought you into this crazy, wonderful, awful, glorious planet at this time and point.

I understand there are as many ways to feel about your mother as there are ways to feel about anything. I didn’t realize when I bought this calendar by Kliban (remember him?) that the illustration for May was a kitty celebrating Mother’s Day. Beautiful, isn’t it? And that upon closer inspection, it featured a tear. Look… I guess he missed his Mom when he drew it.

I was lucky and had a great Mom that I didn’t appreciate nearly enough when I was a kid, and who I wish had lived much longer than she did. I was doubly lucky in that I had a Mother-in-Law and Grandmother-in-Law who picked up her mantle. And I also had an older client who took me under her wing – and was a mother-figure, a good friend, a mentor and an inspiration.

I spent yesterday afternoon with my son, and, as always, we laughed a lot. He’s got a wicked sense of humor and a photographic memory – so when I don’t over-mother him, and let him lead the way, I always leave having learned something new, having heard some great music, and having seen clips from some weird, obscure movie or other.

While we were together I got a weather alert on my phone of an imminent thunderstorm and penny-sized hail. Just as I finished reading it aloud there was a thunderclap of biblical proportions! Then another, and the sky blackened… we waited for the wind to blow and the hail to start, but it never did. Three minutes later it was blindingly sunny again. I can’t believe I wasted three minutes imagining worst-case scenarios!

Today, I’ve invited my three next-door neighbors over for a luscious gluten-free dessert and further plotting to save our country. Going to be a nice afternoon.

No matter what you do, or who you mother: be it kids, grandkids, fur-babies, friends or plants, have a lovely
Mother’s Day. Do something very nice just for yourself.

I appreciate you all reading, more than you know, and I’ll be back with some wonderful books by two Texas writer friends next time!

XO Donna