
Girl Gone Parenting Confession: I Hate Mother's Day
Hear me out. My daughter is 8. I know that she loves me, based on the mere fact that she wants to be with me practically every second of the day, including while I'm peeing. I don't need a special day of the year to know that, despite the arguments and foot stomping, I am her world and she is mine. So I'm going to be real a minute: all this Hallmark-driven holiday does for me is depress me. Typically for Mother's Day, I receive age appropriate gifts of crayon filled pictures,