Mother's Day

"Some day, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them.  I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home.  I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a creep.  I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drugstore and confess, 'I stole this."  ....  But most of all, I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it.  That was the hardest part of all."      Erma Bombeck