For one thing, all mothers play free in honor of Mother's Day. The zany event feels like a circus. Proceeds will pay for area children to attend summer camp. Summer Santa campers are referred by guidance counselors, teachers, charities and others. Mom, the other day I flipped through the first batch of the 2001 camp applications and read the reasons why families were applying.
Parents work and pay greatly to care for ill brother.
Mom, I know that you would love this cause. I always imagine you visiting each year on tournament weekend and helping sell Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I see you playing miniature golf with Austin, calm and patient as a grandmother in the face of his double-bogey tantrums. And I hear you laughing as Summer Santa flings his burly arms around you for a tournament photograph. Mom, I'll be thinking of you Saturday when I try to play the perfect host to everybody else's mother.