This week’s Wednesday Quotes is a tribute to all the mothers out there.

People often ask me, “How will you celebrate Mother’s Day?”

The truth is, I don’t. What’s the point? Mom never likes anything nice I’ve tried to do. She even told me once the worst Mother Day was that year when I fell off a wagon, hit my head, got a concussion, and had to spend Mother’s Day in the ER. I was 12 and clumsy. She’ll never let that one go, will she?

Then, there was one Mother’s Day when I offered to take her out to dinner. She spent the day picking restaurants and when I said, “Okay, let’s go,” she started nip-picking all the faults of the restaurant and we ended up eating at home.

Maybe that’s just how my mom is or maybe after all the years of enduring her temper tantrum, I’ve become bitter.

This year, Mother’s Day will be the day we arrive in London. I wonder if the continent we’re on will make any difference. Maybe after 8 sleepless hours, she might be a little receptive to my ideas. Of course, we will have to eat out since the hotel we’re staying in doesn’t have microwave or anything that’d allow us to cook.

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Perhaps another lifetime ago, I wrote a poem as a tribute to mothers. It’s been posted and re-posted on this blog and I am going to re-post it again. Maybe then, I won’t feel so bitter about this Mother’s Day. Here goes:

YOU GAVE ME LIFE

YOU WATCHED ME GROW

YOU LET ME LIVE MY LIFE

LIKE IT WAS MEANT TO BE

YOU NEVER ASK MUCH FROM ME

YOU JUST WANT ME TO BE OKAY

 

NOW I’M STANDING HERE

WITH MY ARMS WIDE OPEN

I WANT YOU TO KNOW

THAT I’M HERE FOR YOU

AND THIS IS FOR YOU

 

SO LET ME GIVE THANKS

FOR ALL THAT YOU TAUGHT ME

TO HELP ME SURVIVE

TO HELP ME GROW

AND HELPED ME FIND MY DREAMS

 

I AM STANDING HERE

WITH MY ARMS WIDE OPEN

AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW

THAT I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU

WHEN YOU NEED HELP

BECAUSE THIS IS FOR YOU

 

YOU HELPED ME GO THROUGH

TOUGH TIMES, HAPPY TIMES AND SAD TIMES

I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT

 

I’LL STANDING HERE

WITH MY ARMS WIDE WIDE OPEN

AND WANT YOU TO KNOW

THAT I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU

WHEN YOU’RE DOWN, WHEN YOU’RE SAD

AND WHEN YOU NEED MY HELP

BECAUSE THIS IS FOR YOU

THIS SONG IS FOR YOU