I salute you.

To my mother, who never let on that the apparent ease of motherhood was actually a whole lot of hard work and love and blood and sweat and tears.

To my mother-in-law, who didn't ship my lovely husband off to Siberia even though his extreme colic lasted for 8 MONTHS. (She's a SAINT, I tell you.)

To my daughter, who made me a mother and every day, even as she makes me wonder if I'm up to the enormous task, makes me enormously glad for it.

To mothers everywhere, who get up every day to do this most impossible job, all over again.

Happy Mother's Day.