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VIDEOOh, Mother's Day!
By
Laurie Petersen May 08, 2009 7:45 am
I'm a card-carrying member of the Bad Mom Club
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Allow me to share some of my qualifiers:
One year I brought Lucky Charms to the school Thanksgiving Gratitude breakfast. This delighted the first-graders, but drew daggers from the yogurt-and-granola crowd who ban all sweetened cereals from their kitchens.
Then there were the Dunkin’ Munchkins with the special ingredient. I donated them for a post-production cast party one year. Didn’t realize they’d been invaded by a swarm of ants!
Who could forget the time I got so engrossed in my email I failed to feed my daughter dinner! I’m sure the other moms out there all have stories of their own. We’re only human.
Anyway, I liked Mother’s Day well enough when I was only a daughter. It was a chance to do something different with my mom. But once I became a mom, I felt torn between what I most like and what I knew she would enjoy.
To complicate matters further, these days my daughter is liking her grandmother a lot more than me. What she once considered fun now mortifies her. I’m that Lady who bursts spontaneously into song or dance in the supermarket aisles. (Shop Rite has a better soundtrack than the A&P.)
But there’s hope. For the first time ever, we’re doing a girls’ day out for Mother’s Day this year. My daughter, my sister, my mom and me. I organized it.
Meanwhile, know what you can give me? The best Mother’s Day gift of all: a world filled with strong, smart, and bold girls. Please consider a donation to Girls Inc.
Thank you!
Let’s hear it from the moms. What 's your take on Mother’s Day? Weigh in on The Exchange.
You can always follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/ohmother
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