A Custom Song for Your Mom This Mother's Day

The group chat starts around the middle of April. Three of you, one mom, and nobody wants to be the one who sends flowers again. The problem is not that you cannot think of a gift. The problem is that a gift from all of you has to somehow be from all of you, and the oldest remembers a different woman than the youngest does.

A song is the one thing that holds every version at once. She was thirty-one and working nights when the first kid started school, and forty-five and softer by the time the last one did. Both are true. Both fit in a verse.

What makes it land is her actual language. The thing she says when you leave the house. The thing she says when somebody drops something. Whatever she calls the drawer full of chargers and dead batteries. Then the part nobody ever said out loud: the years she drove everyone everywhere, the meals cooked around what four people would not eat, the fact that she still buys next year's birthday cards the week after this year's and knows exactly which drawer they are in.

None of you has to be the writer. That is usually where the chat stalls, because everybody can remember things and nobody wants to be the one who has to phrase them. You do not phrase anything. Send the raw list in whatever order it arrives, contradictions left in, and we do the writing and the producing.

You get an original studio-quality song written from your details, $19.99, delivered by email within 24 hours. One song, one order, all of your names on it.

Ask the chat for one saying and one memory each, then send us the lot.