My Mother once lent me her Volkswagen Beetle for a whole year so that I could commute from my apartment to classes during my senior year at college.
A few years before that, circa 1971, she also let me and my siblings decorate our family car (also a Beetle) with so many large flower decals that looked like the whole clan was heading straight to Woodstock, but that’s another story.
The point is, Mothers are and have always been awesome and self-sacrificing (even when their offspring don’t fully recognize the magnitude of their giving hearts until many, many decades later).
And nowhere is maternal fortitude more apparent than in the midst of the Corona pandemic.
True, it has been brutal for all of us.
And, yes, it has been devastating for many and deadly for thousands.
But among all the devastation, what stands out in this ongoing battle are the Mothers who for months now have continued nonstop entertaining kids, feeding kids, trying to educate kids and enveloping kids in a blanket of love.
The rest of us can semi-cope with the challenges of quarantine by binging on shows, reading People magazine and Zooming with friends.
But Moms get no coffee break in the best of times, let alone when social distancing and isolation from babysitters or grandparents are added to the mix. Moms can’t regroup for a few minutes on the couch, they are too busy rallying the troops and maintaining family sanity.
Therefore let’s give Moms everywhere, particularly those with little kids, some extra praise this Mother’s Day.
Making sacrifices is what Moms do, even when it means they’ll be stranded without a car for an entire goddamn year.
So thanks, Mom, and Thanks, Moms.
Someday years from now, may your children recall your Warrior Spirit that guided them through the pandemic, no matter how exhausted, depleted or woefully bad at math you were.
Now more than ever, Moms, YOU RULE!
