Contributing Editor Elizabeth Thompson also blogs at The Imperfect Parent.

Mother's Day is Sunday, May 16th -- yep, it's closer than you think -- and Bizrate.com (via Business Wire) has released a list of Mother's Day gift suggestions. Perhaps some shoppers -- especially those of us who are scraping the bottom of the barrel and are nearly fresh out of gift ideas -- will be interested to know that perhaps all they had to do was simply...ask their mom!