I don't think you're entirely in the wrong. My own mother and I don't get along. But it doesn't mean I don't have friends who are wonderful mothers, or I don't know mothers who would in fact give half their bodies and souls for their child to be happy, healthy and pain free for one hour on any day - just like you said.

Yes it's a made up holiday so people can buy stuff. But that doesn't mean that it's still not filled with sentiment. My flist has people who've eaten cold, crappy breakfasts because their five year old tried to make it all by themselves and who smile at stinky perfumes and put up with stains on the bedclothes due to over-enthusiastic hugging.

There's a certain love and self-sacrifice mixed with friendship, wisdom and companionship that's celebrated as a whole on Mother's Day. And she's not fitting the bill.

One would think, with all her talk about how losing her mother still affects her that she would make a special effort to be there for her own daughter.

One would think.