From the editor

Kids have dibs on birthdays and Christmas. Dad gets June, and Super Bowl Sunday, and control of the remote. But come May 13, moms get their due.

There’s no one more deserving. So in preparing this month’s column, I decided not to linger on all the great events in the Tri-parishes this month n and trust me, there are plenty of GREAT events n but instead will let the all-time voice of mothers everywhere enlighten us on the virtues of this role God has bequeathed on the female gender: the late Erma Bombeck.

Until next month, get out and enjoy the fun this month. And, moms, Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at the Gumbo Entertainment Guide.

Erma Bombeck on Motherhood: “Spend at least one Mother’s Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.”

“Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.”

“Kids have little computer bodies with disks that store information. They remember who had to do the dishes the last time you had spaghetti, who lost the knob off the TV set six years ago, who got punished for teasing the dog when he wasn’t teasing the dog and who had to wear girls boots the last time it snowed.”

“Who, in their infinite wisdom, decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.”

“No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.”

“Most children’s first words are ‘Mama’ or ‘Daddy.’ Mine were, ‘Do I have to use my own money?’”

“Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, ‘What light?’ and two more to say, ‘I didn’t turn it on.’”