Thank you, Mom!

When I was a little girl, my Mom was my hero. We played "elephant" in the yard, using leaves picked from our Elephant Ear plants. While she made clothes for my little brother and me, she taught me how to sew clothes for my dolls. I also remember that her nose was often in a book - and therefore she instilled a love of reading within me, which she nurtures still today.

As an adult, my Mom is still my hero. And she's my best girlfriend and confidant - someone I can always turn to for advice and to laugh with. She's a talented artist, an excellent cook and an eloquent writer. (Recently, she wrote a children's book that was inspired by my son, Dylan!)

Being Mom on Mother's Day

Being Mom comes in so many different forms. For me, it’s being Stepmom to a sweet 12-year-old and now, this Mother's Day, also being Mom to a 6-month-old son.

Adding a new baby has stirred up my life in so many ways – there’s more chaos, more joy, more responsibility, more love, more self-imposed expectations and more laughs than ever before. And the days rush by in the blink of an eye.

To me, Mother’s Day means stopping and freezing for a moment in time, hitting the pause button on our hectic lives and appreciating and cherishing one another exactly as we are today -- because we will never, ever be 29, 12, and 6 months old again. For me it's about celebrating the whole family, with Mom as a lynchpin.

We asked some Moms to talk about what Mother's Day means to them or what their best Mother's Day was like, and here's what they said: