Rachel Abrams

My advice for mothers is that we all do the best we can with what we have.

It's the hardest job in the world, and we're all second-guessing ourselves, and we make so many, so many choices, and you just do the best you can, and you just hope your kid's

forgive you and you do everything with love and even when you're short with them and you're upset, you're still doing the best you can with what you have and you just pray and you just love them.

That's beautiful, mom.

It is.

Happy Mother's Day, mom.

Oh, my God.

Happy Mother's Day, honey.

I love you.

Thank you.

I love you, too, honey.

OK, now I have to go recover.

Thanks, dear.

OK, bye.

Thank you to all the listeners who sent us voice memos.

We got more than we could possibly include, but you all have very quotable moms, and we enjoyed listening to all of them.

Today's episode was produced by Tina Antolini and was edited by Wendy Doerr, with production assistance from Dalia Haddad.

It contains music by Pat McCusker, Marian Lozano, Dan Powell, and Leah Shaw Dameron.

It was engineered by Rowan Nemisto.

Special thanks to Katherine Pearson and Melonise McAfee.