  another mother's day . . . *sigh* made the trip downstate to see my mom. 1 hour spent speeding down the highway while listening to jimmy eat world, psyching myself up for another visit.
how i LOVE my mother! gifts included: - one container lily-of-the-valley harvested from my own yard - one "prayer box" pendant i collected a bunch of cool quotes, put them on little pieces of paper, rolled them up for use in the pendant. the one i put inside for the pendant's virgin cruise: "the most important thing i have to say to you, whatever else passes between us, is that i love you. " i told you i love her, and i meant that. with that love comes a world of hurt (isn't that the way?
only the ones we care about most have the power to really wound us) we're slowly working through all of that crap and learning to enjoy each other (there's SO much to enjoy! ) she loved her gifts, which made me so very happy. then we started talking .
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and somehow the subject of my pets came up and then my mother said something about people being more valuable or mourn-able than animals and then i said something about each being an animal with which i have a reciprocal caring relationship and then she got hurt and i f!
@#ed up and said something about my pets being my children and then .
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i told her i loved her more than my cats. turns out that's all she wanted to hear. happy mother's day, all you mothers out there. you're some of my most favouritest animals! 
