DEAR MOM: You've Been Valslisted! (a Mother's Day Note from Val)

In My House, Testosterone Rules.

I’m the mother of four boys. That’s them in the pic above, doing what they love to do when they’re all together, back in town from college and work. They dress up in their too-small childhood jerseys and fleece pants and hurt each other in backyard football games. Inevitably someone comes in limping or gasping in the first 30 min. I’m the one they come to – because I’m cooking mass quantities of food in the kitchen by myself (yea, get out the violin). My reaction to an injury is always the same: first I yell at them, then I take them to the E.R. But what warms my heart is that they still play together like little kids (they’re 21-26), and that they even want to play together.

The way to their hearts is through their stomachs so my top priorities are Costco & Cooking. As long as good smells are coming from my kitchen I feel good. When it’s 7pm and I haven’t figured out what’s for dinner, I feel like a failure. When they yell “there’s nothing to eat” it’s a stab wound in my heart. And I’ve gotta admit this happens a lot more lately since I’ve started Valslist…

So this mother’s day I want to honor my boys, because they have to share me with our new baby, Valslist, and with all the artists I mother too. I should just change my name to Mamapalooza, cuz that’s what I am….

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