It should come as no surprise that here at Ravishly, we love to celebrate women, so Mother's Day is one Hallmark holiday that we can totally get behind. I mean, between the whole bearing-us-from-their-womb thing and epic angst of the mother-daughter relationship...it's emotional gold, people!
Whether your mother was a chain-smoking hippie with dirty toes and a dirty mouth, a debutante in pearls with perfect grammar, a sports nut, a baker, a lawyer, a feminist pacifist, a philandering gardener or a straight-up pain in the A (they all are), there are few things finer than honoring the woman who helped you become the woman you are today.
So Happy Mother's Day, Ravishly moms! We made you a mix-tape of all the songs that make us think of you.
Giana Says:
Family road trips. Barbecues. Adult dinner parties. My young ears shattered—no longer could I pretend that Raffi was the epitome of musical perfection.
Katie Says:
My mother, as a gift to my then 12-year-old brother, took him to a place where you could make any mix-tape you wanted (ah, the '80s!) but my brother was apparently being a bit of a brat, wouldn't participate, and insisted on calling his tape "Waste of a Day." My mother ended up picking a bunch of the songs, including "Paradise By the Dashboard Light." I inherited the tape when I was in like fourth grade and listened to it incessantly. It was one of the first (and still only times) my mother will scream out lyrics and dance in the car; she's usually rather refined, so it's an amazing spectacle to a ridiculous—and dirty!—song.
Nikki Says:
A few years ago, I heard this song on the radio and felt a powerful feeling of familial nostalgia, but I couldn't place why. I asked around, and my mom revealed that she would listen to this on repeat every day as she drove to work, and me to daycare, when I was 3. It stuck with me all those years, and now I think of her every time I hear it.
Aubrey Says:
My family always giggles at my mom's singing prowess so she decided to learn a song to show us that she could get down with the musical side of the family. We listened to it together on repeat, sang it in the car on the way to play rehearsal and she practiced it on the karaoke machine over and over to make sure it was right. We still tease her a little bit, but she can sing this song pretty well and it will always remind me of her.
Meredith Says:
Lots of dancing to the Stones throughout every season.
Jane Says:
My mom would blast Bee Gee's while cleaning.
Image of the one and only Janis: Wikimedia Commons
