I can't speak for everyone, but to me the term "Mother's Day" conjures up a mental picture of the Little Old Lady in the Warner Brothers cartoons. The one who owned Tweetie-bird and was always hitting Sylvester with the umbrella. I don't know why that is, because I've never known anyone like that.  And in fact, if you look around you're local PTA meeting, you'll see that mothers don't look like that.

Mother's Day is traditionally a time of burnt toast in bed and refrigerator magnets that say, "We <heart> Mom" and hand-drawn cards with the marker still wet. And I wouldn't take any of that away; it's all precious. But Moms these days... well, they're not what Moms looked like when I was a kid. (Of course, I was a kid then, what did I know?)

Since I don't want to take anything away from the traditions of Mother's Day, let me suggest that couples might want to indulge in a little Mother's Day Eve celebration: some provocative clothes, a trip to a night club, maybe making out in the car like when you were kids yourselves. You had to do something to become a mother, right? A little re-enactment shouldn't be out of the question.

It's perfect timing -- Mother's Day is always on a Sunday. Mother's Day Eve is always a Saturday night! That burnt toast will come pretty early in the morning, but you'll have the satisfaction of knowing hubby had to get up first.