Mom's Gonna kill you.

This is the first post, and possibly the first mention that I have made about Moms.  Needless to say, I am thinking about the topic because of the pending holiday.

I am not going to give you any of our usual cliches.  I am not going to drool out some crap about i love you mom, (which i do) or any of that other predictable crap.  SO here goes an ode to moms everywhere.  Especially Bonnie, Stacy, Diane, Betty, Jenn, June, Louise, Dayna, Laura, Jody and Greta.

There are two holidays that recognize parents.  We somehow hold mothers day in higher esteem than the other one.  I think that it is for good reason. Although i am not trying to make a comparison between moms and dads, I do think that it goes without saying that Mothers day is definitely the more important holiday. 

Why? Because you never really know what your Dad is going to do.  He might kick your ass; But your mom is going to kill you.   Dads have always been the first parent to hear you swear.  See you smoke.  Catch you beating on his truck.  And they also have always been the ones who said they would not tell mom.  That's because they love you.  And they know mom is gonna kill you.

See this goes both ways.  How many Dads have told their kids not to tell mom?  Um Yeah.  All of them.  How many Moms have said don't tell dad?  not all of them anyway.  Dads and kids have a trust that moms and kids don't always have.  Because mom's gonna kill you.

This is really a compliment to mom by the way.  Mom is burdened by the fact that she usually is the moral compass to her household.  Dad has the luxury of knowing that he's just a big kid anyway, and everybody sort of expects him to act like it.  Take the following quiz if you don't believe me. The answer to each question is either Mom or Dad.

1.  Who encouraged you to go to church more often?
2. Who Taught you to bait a fish-hook?
3. Who checked your homework, and who just asked if it was done?
4. Who did you spend more time playing video games with?
5. Who read to you more?
6. Who taught you how to match your clothes?
7. Who helped you with a band-aid, and who told you to wipe some dirt on it?

you get the idea.  Dads spend time with us with the idea of making Men out of us.  Mom's spend time making Citizens out of us.  Not that one is more important than the other, but society could survive without Mans Men.  Is the same true of Citizens? Imagine the things people wouldn't know how to do without moms. 

Further, Mom was a lot more adamant about it.  Mom would wear herself out trying to mold us into good people.  Nothing was more important to Mom than the development of her children.  Our grades.  our future.  We never worried about Dad's opinion of people we dated.  We never called Dad when we had a personal problem.  We called Dad when the car wouldn't start. 

That's the thing.  We always knew dad was our friend.  We always knew Dad loved us. Dad would help us.  Dad had our back. 

But Mom.  Mom expected a lot more of us.  And Mom was tough.  Dad would laugh and give us a Hug.  Mom would kill us.  you never heard a Dad say "I brought you into this world..."

Our Moms didn't only want the best for us.  They expected that we listen to them about it.  If your Mom didn't approve, you knew it.  Sometimes Dad had to come talk to you about it, but you knew where it came from.  This is the great thing about having parents.  Parents can work together this way.  There are usually not two bad guys.  Parents sometimes take turns..  One can Nurture.  The other can Discipline.  By the way, neither really works without the other, and yes, the roles do switch from time to time. 

But this is about Mom.

We love our moms for all that they have done for us.  We love our moms for unconditional love.  We love our moms for the effort they have put into taking care of us. Teaching us. Spending the time we needed.  Making us do things we didn't want to . And all of the other things Mom does that help us to be who we are today. 

SO i encourage you.  Make a big deal of Mothers day next month. I'm giving you plenty of warning.  And remember, if you don't, Mom's gonna Kill you.

happy Mothers Day ladies.
Greg