Celebrate Your Mom on Duluth Patch!

It's almost Mother's Day, a time to thank our mamas for the countless hours spent wiping our noses, cleaning our rooms, kissing our booboos, and a host of other selfless actions. 

What are some of your favorite memories of your mom (or mother-figure)? Are you proud of her for following her dreams? My own mother, Kim Gamble, served as a missionary in the Netherlands for ten years. Now, she flips houses! Laying floor, sanding cabinets, cutting tile, designing kitchens - she does it all. I'm pretty darn proud of her. 

Share your photos and tell us in the comments about your own mom!

Some fun facts about Mother's Day (from Wellesley Patch):

• 55% of mothers with a birth in 2010 are in the work force. This decreased from from 57 percent in 2008.
• Average age of women in 2008 giving birth for the first time is 25.1, up from 25.0 years in 2006 and 2007. The mean age from 2007 to 2008 reflects, in part, the relatively large decline in births to women under age 25 compared with the small decline for women in the 25-39 age bracket.
• There are 85.4 million mothers in the U.S. 
• 4 million gave birth over the past 12 months
• The driving force behind Mother's Day was Anna Jarvis, who organized observances in Grafton, W.VA, and Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. As the annual celebration became popular around the country, Jarvis asked members of Congress to set aside a day to honor mothers. She finally succeeded in 1914, when Congress designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.