To All You Kids Out There (That Aren't Actually Reading This):

Today is Mothering Sunday.
     So! Go spoil your Mother's.

And spoil them mightily, indeed; as much as is financially and physically possible. Facilitate their every whim and bend to their every desire.
     Remember, these women gave birth to you; carried you in their wombs for 8-10 long and at best frustrating and uncomfortable months, then endured the labour or operation necessary to bring you into the world (something that when upset, she might more than once have mentioned to you. 14 endless hours of excruciating pushing, apparently, in my case).
     Add to that, for your entire childhood (in 99% of cases, at least) she has fed you, clothed you; provided unconditional love, support, succour, encouragement...they've bathed you when dirty, tended you when sick, praised you in success, commiserated with you in failure. They've been there through thick and thin, laughter and tears; through everything.

Everything that you are in adulthood is, for the most part, down to you. You shape yourself in your own image and in your own way, no matter what happens to you or around you; that's what for good or bad makes humans such wonderfully versatile and unique creatures.
     BUT, it is important to note; those building blocks that you have used to sculpt the masterpiece that is You originated somewhere else, with someone else, and for many, that someone else is The Mother.
     Your Mother.

So spoil her, kids. Make her happy.

After all, she deserves it.

Remember, however, something important to bear in mind:  a Mother is for Life. Not just for Christmas.

.....Or something like that.....

=shrugs=

Go, anyway. Be gone. Shoo.
     And get spoilin'.

Alice x