I have to admit I find it more irking when people seem to think that every woman needs to be acknowledged as a mother for some reason.

I totally get this point, though it didn't even occur to me before you said it.

My mother never made a big deal of Mother's Day. I don't think we ever did more than give her a card. She would say, I'm a mother every day, so every day is Mother's Day for me!

I think it's great to set aside a day to recognize the people who are important in your life. I just think it should be more private, I guess. I get why businesses would want to use it to make a few bucks, but things like restaurants handing out roses to every woman is ridiculous, and potentially painful to too many people. I know women who basically hide on Mother's Day, and that just shouldn't be.

I get why businesses would want to use it to make a few bucks

This is actually my biggest gripe. Corporate holidays make me sad. Plus, legislating appreciation? Sigh.

I definitely make a point of not going to restaurants or stores, that's for sure. I never really celebrated Hallmark holidays even when younger, so it's not really the holiday that bothers me so much as the bizarre tendency on this particular one for random strangers to bring it up.

I don't remember which Mother's Day Jamaica celebrates. But since I'm never going to remember when the British one is, I extend wishes to my mother on this one. Not that she's home right now.

I'm glad no one has ever wished me a happy mother's day. It would irritate me. Do they hand out stuff to every man on father's day?

Of course, maybe I'm just bitter because I'm having my Gen X Midlife Crisis.

megan, someone at the book reading last night was actually named Megan Walker. It was confusing.

Maybe it was just me in disguise.

I'm pretty sure no one's ever wished me a happy Mother's Day.

But since I'm never going to remember when the British one is, I extend wishes to my mother on this one.

It must be March-ish, because I remember being in London for Spring Break and freaking out that I had forgotten, due to all the signs there.

It must be March-ish, because I remember being in London for Spring Break and freaking out that I had forgotten, due to all the signs there.

How panic-inducing! Every year I have a mini-freakout because of my mother's phantom birthday, April 20th. It's what her birth certificate says, so it's lightly lodged in my memory as something to celebrate.