It's the least you can do

If you'll allow me to be serious for a moment, I'd like to comment on the fact that Sunday is Mother's Day.

Now of course, if you've forgotten, and you don't live near your mother, it's too late to mail anything at this point (thank God my mum's coming to town this weekend anyway, or I'd be screwed), but I do think that it's important to remember the poor woman who went through (especially if you are the oldest child) considerably more pain than she was expecting to bring you into this world.

That, and the fact you almost certainly have stories similar to this is another reason to be thankful she didn't drown you when you were an insolent little rug rat...