Mother's Day

Can you think of a better way to say "Happy Mother's Day?"

Mother's Day is this Sunday, May 14, and if you still haven't bought something special for your Mom, let me help you with some ideas she's guaranteed to love.

Because your mom needs chocolate cake on Mother's Day, but she shouldn't be the one making it.

There were a lot of great movies in 2016. There were! Please don’t let this list convince you otherwise. The movies were absolutely wonderful this year. Just not these specific movies. These were bad. So, so, so bad. Just awful.

It wasn't due to an escape, or even an escape attempt. It wasn't because of a riot or a massive fight in the cafeteria, either. The Cook County Jail recently experienced a lockdown because of the NBA Finals. It seems that over 300 guards (317, to be exact) called in "sick" so they could stay home to watch Game 7 between the Cavs and the Warriors.

Unfortunately, Illinois often finds itself around the bottom of good lists, and at or near the top of the bad lists. Sometimes, albeit rarely, we find a good list that Illinois actually holds a high position on. Today, we learn that Illinois is a pretty good state for working moms.

There’s no silence quieter than the one in a movie theater during an bad comedy. At times during Mother’s Day, director Garry Marshall’s newest debasement of a beloved holiday, a hush fell over the theater to rival the quietude at a Benedictine monastery. When the laughter finally came, it’s always at the movie’s expense. This disaster is less deliberately funny than the last movie titled Mother’s Day, and that was a violent horror film.

With Mother's Day coming up Sunday, I've been trying to share some different Mother's Day themed posts. Yesterday, we took a look at what moms think of themselves and their parenting versus what their kids think. Bottom line: you are a much better mom than you think you are...

Full disclosure here: I live with a woman that I consider to be the greatest mom on the planet Earth. My wife Amy, in my opinion, is flawless in her execution of everything that goes into being a mom. Every single day. That being said, I know that she would disagree with me (that's why I'm writing this without her in the room to tell me to change it)...

The 2015 MELD Mother’s Day Cards and Note Cards are available to purchase starting Thursday, April 9 at local businesses listed below. The feature this year are beautiful scenes of Bradley Nordlof Photography. The large card features a general verse, making the it versatile for use as an all occasion card and also as a Mother’s Day Card...