I finally understand now what my mother meant when she said to me every year, “You don’t have to give me anything for Mother’s Day.”

I finally understand now what my mother meant when she said to me every year, “You don’t have to give me anything for Mother’s Day.”
There are lies you tell yourself and then there are the ones you tell other people. I’m not against doing either.
At 7:33am in Belgium, on March 21st in 2012, I started tweeting what ended up being my labor and delivery of my son Noah.