I’m sure there is something I could add to this–but the sentiments remain the same with every year that goes by. But I would like to wish all the mothers out there a truly Happy Mother’s day for tomorrow–may your day be filled with the warm glow of you family around you.
I will never get used to Mother’s Day. It’s been eighteen years since my mom died suddenly at fifty-five from a brain aneurysm and I still want to throw something at the TV when commercials urge me to buy that special piece of jewelry or show me the joy a mother feels when she opens the perfect Hallmark card. Emails fill up my inbox, informing me every day for two weeks prior, what flowers ‘my mother’ would like to receive and when to order them to be delivered to her on time. I hit the delete button quickly just like I do when I get, what seems to be hundreds of press releases on “elegant, new, fresh Mother’s day ideas” or “must have gifts.”
I apologize to all the publicists out there and the companies they represent. I read your material at all other times throughout the year.
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