Let's Ditch Mother's Day Brunch

Hey, we appreciate the sentiment--and the tulips and the tepid Eggs Benedict. But this year, I envision a Mother's Day where I wake up alone and it's like I'm 27 again and childless and still wearing last night's smokey eye. (A friend recently suggested that we all do a weekend away. Moms gone wild? Yes, please.) I don't want to sound ungrateful. I love my family. But consider this: more than half of Americans take mom out for brunch on Mother's Day and spend more than $4 billion on hash browns. But what if all the moms in the world got together to suck down mimosas and then went dancing? We could rebrand the holiday as, "Mother's Away Day." Who's in?

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