How we see our Moms when we're...

One day old:

a blur.

Two months old:

milk machine.

Three months old:

something to smile at.

Six months old:

something that pushes a spoon in our face.

One year old:

a hand to hold while we try to walk.

Two years old:

something that says no all the time.

Three years old:

Daddy's ally.

Four years old:

bad-dream vanquisher.

Five years old:

role model.

Six years old:

expert French-braider.

Seven years old:

flash card coach.

Eight years old:

chauffeur.

Nine years old:

room cleaner-upper.

Ten years old:

piggy bank.

Eleven years old:

homework helper.

Twelve years old:

nag.

Thirteen years old:

worst enemy.

Fourteen years old:

source of shame.

Fifteen years old:

slave driver.

Sixteen years old:

clothing naysayer.

Seventeen years old:

non-car lender.

Eighteen years old:

college-selection sounding board.

Nineteen years old:

hypocrite.

Twenty years old:

"I've really changed at college"

sounding board.

Twenty-one years old:

career-choice sounding board.

Twenty-two years old:

housekeeper.

Twenty-three years old:

furniture storer.

Twenty-four years old:

apartment lease cosigner.

Twenty-five years old:

psychiatrist.

Twenty-eight years old:

psychiatrist payer.

Thirty years old:

confidante.

Thirty-two years old:

baby-sitter for our children.

Forty years old:

friend.

Fifty years old:

font of wisdom.

Sixty-five years old:

beloved memory.

Source: 1,003 Great things about Moms by Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, Patricia Marx (pp. 18-21)