The year swings round and once again Mother’s Day was thrust upon me before I’d barely recovered from the last. What to most Mothers is a time to look forward to, a time of cheesy cards, cheap bouquets of Mothers Day flowers and low fat chocolates all received with a winsome smile and tears of gratitude; is for me a stress filled agony. I loathe the whole thing but out of love for my dear little angels I am forced to smile sweetly and bite my lip. It’s not so much the school made cards that get to me, those I love, and it’s not that for two whole hours after I get up the little darlings are, well, just that. Little darlings. No, what really grips my shit is the whole idea that if you’re nice to Mother for one day a year then she’ll forgive you everything for the other 364 days when you have been an inconsiderate little fecker. Oh will she really? I think not!
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