Am I the only mother who wonders why Mother’s Day is just once a year? The day a woman brings a child into the world she becomes a mother and she’s a mother for the rest of her life.
The way I look at it, children who have been given the gift of life should find ways to thank their mothers every day. Unfortunately, the other members of my family don’t see it this way - yet.

I’ve waited for this day for three hundred sixty-four days. If I waited for my family to bring me breakfast in bed, I’d miss half my day. Besides, by getting up I avoid having very brown, toast crumbs in my bed until sheet-changing day.
I don’t change sheets on Mother’s Day. I don’t do laundry or clean bathrooms or scrub the kitchen floor. In fact, I don’t eliminate one task from my growing list of need-to-be-dones. Instead, I ask for my gift.
I can’t be placated with a store-bought card or won over by a bunch of blooming blossoms or bought off with a box of chocolate calories. For Mother’s Day I want a gift of time wrapped in effort.
One year I […]

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