Short Takes: Birthday Memories

My daughter manages to express her love as well as quite a zinger in a homemade birthday card. I am planning on framing it - next to a vehement denial of the charges, of course!

By Maura Mahoney

September 24, 2012 7:56 a.m.

So, my 12-year-old daughter presented me with a homemade birthday card, complete with self-drawn family portrait and a long list of my virtues.

I was smiling at the line "You are the best mom in the history of moms," when I realized that perhaps I should have stopped there. Because the next line reads: "From the gleam in your eye to the feet I always have to massage, you are the nicest, most understanding person I have ever met."