We just got back in town after an epic weekend in Atlanta where we celebrated my brother’s college graduation. Don’t worry, there will be a post with details and pictures from his big day, but, right now, before my first official Mother’s Day is over, I just want to say that: I get it.

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When I was a junior in college, I spent a year studying abroad in Chile and my mom called one day to remind me to look both ways before crossing the busy Santiago streets.

Irrational. I thought. I was 19! I had crossed thousands of streets in my lifetime! Of course I knew to look both ways.

And that’s just one example of the many, many times I’ve thought my mom was crazy.

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Luki has a blanket that he loves to sleep with. Every night, he curls up next to it and falls asleep, and every night, I get it into my head that, somehow, the blanket has smothered him and I go into his room to make sure he’s still breathing.

Irrational. Blankets are inanimate objects! Luki knows how to pull things away from his face! He is 10 months old, not a newborn.

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I get it. And my greatest aspiration in life is to become as crazy as she is.