My Mom Is My Best Friend

My mother still rocks. We watched the Steelers game together last week when I visited her at hospice. She had a Hines Ward jersey on along with me and we just enjoyed some quality time together.

Announcements:

1. The tattoo contest deadline has been pushed back a wee-bit as we wait for a few more submissions to make their way in. If you’ve got a great idea, email them to contest@mymomismybestfriend.com. I’ve seen some good ones…aww yeah. Update – deadline will be August 31st. Should be easy enough to remember, yah?
2. MyMomIsMyBestFriend.com will soon be changing from a blog site to a social networking site. As much as I like to believe I’ve got to best mom in the world, I know there are other super mothers out there too who are also best friends to their children. Thus, probably later this week you will see the site change and will be able to set up a profile, add pictures, blog about your mother, create groups, talk to others with similar relationships, and so forth. Stay tuned!

Hope you are all doing well. Rumor has it we may get Ma Chia out of hospice and back home soon.

So there I was thinking about my mother. Seeing how many people have come by to bring her food, to see how she’s doing, to have my friends show their support for both her and me at the same time…it’s been a wonderful thing to see. She’s clearly touched the lives of many many people and I keep thinking of new ways to honor her because quite frankly, this woman deserves to be honored.

Can you design a good tattoo to honor your mother?

One of the things I thought of is a tattoo honoring my mother. My mom is actually a fan of “LA Ink” and it kinda gave me the thought. If only Kat would offer to ink me up with something cool to honor my mom. I think she’d do it for a good cause…she seems pretty cool…
Anyway…I digress. So I was thinking of cool tattoos for the people out there that have their moms as their best friends. The first and most obvious design is the heart with “mom” written across it. Yet, there can be so many variations of this. Hmmm…what to do, what to do.

So here it is. This goes out to all you artists out there or just anyone who can come up with a cool design. Supposing, just supposing I were to get something like this put on myself, I’d like to have something good to put  on and show the world what this woman means to me. I mean, theoretically speaking of course. *grin* Mom, if you’re reading this, remember it’s just an idea for others out there. Family and friends, if you’re reading this, same goes to you…

Here’s the deal:

1. Think of a cool tattoo incorporating a heart and the word “mom”. It can have much more around it or be simple.
2. Submit your design.
3. I will show all the designs for everyone else to see and possibly use if they want this to honor their own mothers too.
4. I will choose the design I like the most (you know, if I was to put this on my own body) and spotlight it on this site and a few other sites.
5. Contest ends Saturday, August 15, 2009.

Sound easy enough? It is!

Here’s to all the rockin’ mothers out there.

By the way, my mother is playing Halo on the XBox right now as I type this up. How can you not love a woman like that?