Monday, May 02, 2005

What Mom Wants
May 8th - Mother's Day
Only a week to go to the date we miss at our peril. Neat US News article on What Mom Really Wants, reminding us that, "The Seven most stress-inducing words in the English language may be 'I don't want anything for Mother's Day'. " We all have moms, or are married to one, or actually *are* one - bless you - and there are cool ideas for all types:
All good suggestions and some fun links. A side bar for Media for Mothers caught my eye with its terrifying suggestion for "older moms" of something called Fearless Women - b&w photos of the gentle sex "each wielding a mighty sword". By jove, I know the sort of 'Jocasta' look *my* mum would flash me if I came up with something like that ...
My darlings gave their tireless Mom the latest by fave author Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, a Lyle Lovett CD and some gewgaw from that wonderful new Scrapbook emporium where ArtSoup once bubbled.
The witty and suitably lovingly inscribed Hallmark card was in the shape of a cell phone, prompting fond wisecrack that the clever vixens have headed off "The Frown" over the next bill and grumblings over the World Bank suddenly addressing invoices for Chile's national debt to Queen Anne.