{"id":180,"date":"2008-05-11T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theyoungpages.com\/jodis_blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2008-05-11T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T02:03:10","slug":"he-says-she-says-saturday-for-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theyoungpages.com\/jodis_blog\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"He Says, She Says Saturday: For My Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>To my shame, I do not nearly often enough pay tribute to my mother here. My mother-in-law got her own post <\/a>once, and my step-mother’s had a glowing mention here<\/a> and there<\/a>, but for the most part, my mom only gets a playful<\/a> shout-out<\/a> once in a while. You all know that I depend on her and miss her a ton<\/a> when I don’t get to spend time with her, but I’ve never really told you how much she means to me.<\/p>\n

So I was thinking, what would mean the most to my mom this Mother’s Day? It is quite possible that what she desires more than anything else is a day off work (or a month), but I don’t have that kind of sway. Second to that, she might love for me to get my head out of the blogosphere for long enough to get some eBay listings done for her store. Just in case, I did that<\/a> first.<\/p>\n

Then I thought, hey, my mom loves a good laugh, and she thinks my kids are pretty much the best thing since… well, me, so maybe she’d enjoy this video, which has me laughing until my stomach hurts every time I watch it: (Click here<\/a> if the video doesn’t work on your browser.)
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(Subtitles: We going on a bear hunt. We gonna catch a big one. What a boo-ful day! We’re not scared. Uh-oh, a no<\/em> storm (snow storm). We can’t go in it. Oh no! We have a go through it. <Odd sound effect that bears no resemblance to a snowstorm<\/em>> Repeat ad infinitum<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Then again, perhaps she would like a poem. Here is a haiku I wrote for a contest a month or so ago. It didn’t win, but you know moms: I’m sure she’ll like it anyway.<\/p>\n

Oh, do you love me
\nAs much as I love my girls?
\nI *so* get it now.<\/p>\n

But in my heart of hearts, I already know what my mom needs most for Mother’s Day. She needs to know that she is one of my favorite people in the whole world, and it maybe wouldn’t hurt to tell her why.\u00a0 So, in no particular order, here are ten things I love about my mom:<\/p>\n