When you have six kids, three girls and three boys, you basically never sleep.  You make 30 lunches, and get kids to piano lessons, little league, choir practice, basketball, girl scouts, dance, babysitting, and the list goes on. You sew clothes, you comb hair, you teach little people how to be in the world. My mother sent me to school with flowers and an apple for my teacher. From the first day she wanted that teacher to remember me. When I was invited to a party by a little girl that no one knew, my mother took me there. I was the only one that came to the party. We had a lovely time. I made a new friend. My mother saw the beauty in me, with braces and glasses, and no date for the prom. When I was afraid, she held my hand. She taught me to be brave and kind. My mother is older now. She calls me every day, but sometimes forgets why she is calling. She says she is checking up on me, to make sure that I do not work too hard. I do work too hard. Sometimes I am afraid, and sometimes I am brave, but I am always kind. For me, Mother's Day, is every day.