If you need help writing your Mother’s Day message, here are 8 messages (simple and funny) that will show mom how much she means to you.

One day, I was talking to my sister, and we began discussing how our relationships with our friends had changed over the years. As our girlfriends started to get married and had children, there were few opportunities for them to be present in their uncoupled or childless friends' lives. Although it wasn’t intentional, life changes created distance in relationships that once held pivotal roles in each other’s lives. Where you once acknowledged and celebrated every special moment in each other’s lives, those moments had been reduced to weddings and baby showers.