Here on Mother's Day we honor those women that have raised us, nurtured and inspired us through our lives be they a single parent or married, adopted, an aunt, grandmother, or other relation. Yo those that have been mothers to us and/or to others. We honor these women in a way that we don't do to fathers though true fatherhood is no less important to a child's development.

On this day some of us will get to see and spend time with these special women in our lives, others will have to settle for phone or online messages or cards due to distances our lives can take us from family, and still others are unable to wish their mother well or hear from their child/children because of conflicts that have weakened relations. I know of someone dear whom falls into this last and my one wish was for her to have the chance to tell her mother 'Happy Mother's Day' on this day. I don't know if or when things may improve enough between them to allow it but I hope she is able to at some point.