With my Mom visiting, the royal wedding, Osama's demise, my daughter's fever and then mine, I had my hands full and writing fell by the wayside.  But I'm back and this week is Mother's Day. 

In honor of Mother's Day:


Trivia about Mothers...

• There are 84 million mom's in the U.S.
• The youngest mother on record was Lina Medina, who delivered a 6½-pound boy by cesarean section in Lima, Peru in 1939, at the age of 5 years and 7 months.
• The odds of a woman delivering twins is 1-in-33. Her odds of having triplets is approximately 1-in-539.
• August is the most popular month in which to have a baby.
• Kentucky has the highest percentage of women who are mothers at 67%. The national average is 57%.
• About 4 million women will have babies this year.
• The median age of a woman giving birth for the first time in the U.S. is 24.8.
• Daughters keep in closer contact with their mothers than do sons. (Pew Research)
• There are more phone calls made on Mother's Day than on any other day of the year. (Pew Research)
• The number of people calling their moms on Mother's Day has declined in recent years due to e-mail and other electronic means of communication.
• While nearly 80 percent of Americans will buy a card for mom this year, 83 percent of the cards will be purchased by daughters. (American Greetings)
• Mother's Day is the third-largest card-sending holiday.
• Mother's Day is the busiest day of the year for restaurants.