Mother's Day is a holiday for wives not single moms

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For single moms, the onus to celebrate Mother’s Day is on us. And if there are two things single moms don’t particularly have time for, it’s (1) looking up the plural of onus and (2) having any more responsibilities. So on this Mother’s Day, I’m not going to sleep in, have breakfast in bed or get a present. I don’t feel like giving myself more work to do or pretending my 4-year-old can pull off anything other than her own clothes. I am going to have a quiet Sunday piled with wet laundry, eggs I’ll cook myself and dishes I’ll leave until tomorrow. Then I’m going to read on the playground while my daughter yells, “Push me!” I yell back, “Pump!” And she yells back: “Look! I did it!”

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Where do clean clothes, dirty dishes and telling my kid to pump her own damn legs fall on the spectrum of Instagrammed brunches and Pinterested handprints, vases of roses and birthstone charms? Perhaps they are on another spectrum entirely, where Sunday is just Sunday, and I don’t have to pretend otherwise because Sunday is already good enough.

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