An early Mother's Day tip

You could go the card route. You could go the Sunday brunch route. I hear some mothers even get flowers, not that I have seen it happen in my house.

But here's a gift idea: Rescue Gifts is sort of like Heifer International, which lets you give gifts of livestock and other practical things to people in Third World countries.

There's a section on women and girls that lets you pick gifts that feed people or make the lives of women better. You can donate to things like the Community Garden rescue kit (donations go toward helping put in community gardens in immigrant communities in the U.S.) or Emergency Food for Children, which distributes high-nutrition therapeutic foods in places that are experiencing famines.

Much nicer than a card. Although I hear some mothers do like flowers.