Of Motherhood and Apple Pie

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As we persevere through the mother of all pandemics, this will be a pretty low-key sort of Mothers' Day. It amused me a bit to read that a number of cemeteries are actually closing for the day. Surely when someone is six feet under, that meets your physical distancing requirements right there?!

Anyway, we hadn't particularly planned to visit any foremothers' gravesites today. We will, however, be eating apple pie and watching Call the Midwife on TV. So I suppose we're marking the day in a manner of speaking.

I've been thinking about mother-related expressions that may be particularly relevant in times like these, and here's what I've come up with so far:

Necessity is the mother of invention.

staying on the mother ship (Mothercraft?)

enjoying mother nature virtually (as in the Tulip Festival, for example)

I'm mentally playing with variants on "motherboard" and "mother-bored" too.

It's a rather short list but I may add to it later. So Happy Mothers' Day to mothers and mother figures everywhere!

Comments

[metawidget]

Mother Nature (but not the park)! Motherlode (of toilet paper?)!