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Happy Mother’s Day! Since I’m a mother, too, I’m taking the day off, so hug your mom’s or whoever raised you. It’s not about gender roles, it’s about who was there to wipe your nose, bandage that skinned knee, and do all the work that goes into being a parent. I add that last because I always got left out in school, because they planned events where kids brought their moms to school, or their dads, depending on the event and the season, but I had neither. I had a grandmother in a time when I don’t think grandparents’s day existed. But in all the ways that counted she was my mom. It’s not everyone that can say they had two moms growing up, but I did, one just wasn’t able to stay with me very long. I do wish that I’d had the common sense to ask to bring my grandmother to some of the mother/daughter events when I was little, but it didn’t occur to any of the grown-ups, or me. Now, I have Jon’s mom, so I am very blessed indeed to have three women in one lifetime that I call, Mom. We sent Mom and Art some place warm for mother’s day. She said it was too much, Jon and I both said, "It’s a token of what you do every day for us." And that’s the truth. So, now with my own daughter, and Jon’s Mom, mother’s day no longer sucks.