Fruit Baskets For Mom's

My mom gave up what could’ve been a really rewarding career for us three kids. She became a stay at home mom and raised us. She had a business degree from Harvard but she preferred to spend a good long ten years helping her kids solve their middle school math sums. Naturally when I grew up, I was the proudest kid in the world, I’d been raised by a super mom and I never forgot it.
Every mothers day, I’d scout out every store in the mall and every website on the internet until I’d find the very best mothers day gift for my mom that was out there. Last year mom finally decided to go back to work. While I really wanted to encourage her I didn’t know how I’d tell her that corporate America had changed a lot since she’d left. I was anxious she’d have a hard time fitting in and my fears weren’t unfounded. Two weeks in to her job and she called me up sounding miserable. I tried to make her feel better, (like she’d always done for me whenever I came home from school upset). I wasn’t very effective but I didn’t want her to give up. It was late April and mothers day would be coming soon so I decided that I’d try sending her some early mothers day gifts just to cheer her up. It didn’t work and mom (in her disappointed mood) even told me she didn’t want any mothers day gifts that year, she wouldn’t even hear the word ‘Mothers day fruit baskets’. I tried my best to make mom feel better but not even the mothers day flowers that I sent made any difference.
I was wondering what I’d give her on mothers day and second guessed most of the stuff that I picked out until I landed on fruit bouquets. They looked perfect; I was sure mom had never seen anything like it and I was right. I had it sent to her early (at the office) and it was just the morale booster she needed. I was proud to have made my mom ‘feel better’.