Happy Mother’s Day!

From ABC News, by Alan Farnham:

What’s mom worth? On the one hand, you could say that she’s “priceless.” On the other? “$61,436 a year.”

That’s according to Amy Danise, senior managing editor of Insure.com, a website that supplies insurance information. Danise and her colleagues divided up mom’s function into 14 different jobs (cook, driver, nurse, etc.), then used Bureau of Labor Statistics on hourly wages to see how much you’d have to pay if mom were outsourced….

After all, there’s no job category for somebody loving and kind who looks under your bed to assure you there aren’t monsters, or who consoles you when you drop what would have been the winning fly ball; nobody who suffers through your piano recital or rides the carousel when she’d really rather not. And no mortician is going to help you bury your pet rabbit.

So, thank you, mom. For all that and for so much more, there really is no value. It’s worth all the gold that probably isn’t in Ft. Knox.