Aly Brothers, a single mom of two boys, went viral for her candid account of a trip to the grocery store, a seemingly simple afternoon where cranky kids and judgy shoppers came together to illustrate just how difficult being a mom really is.

She writes:

This is motherhood.
No fancy filters, no good lighting, no new lipstick. It's messy hair that's wet from the rain, yesterday's makeup that I was too tired to wash off, and tears. Motherhood is HARD. Single-motherhood is HARD. These tears started as the cashier of Giant Eagle handed me my receipt and continued for the entire drive home. Tears that were passed on to my oldest in the backseat because he doesn't like to see his mommy cry. We know how much boys love their mothers.
You see, my two blonde haired, blue eyed, angel faced toddlers were not so angelic today. It was 8:00 in the morning and we were out of milk. We took a trip to the store because if you know my kids; you know they survive on chocolate milk. But they weren't having it. My youngest cried almost the entire time we were in the store. He didn't want to sit in the cart, he didn't want to be buckled, he wanted to hold all the groceries on his lap. He got mad. He threw his shoe, he threw my wallet, he threw the three groceries that did fit on his lap. And he cried. And people stared. That was fine, I could handle that. My three year old wanted to be superman and stand on the cart. That was fine. I told him to hold on and stand straight. He did not. He fell off, he leaned backwards and knocked things off their displays. He leaned back and bumped a stranger. Then I made him get down and he walked too far ahead of me and opened all the freezer section doors telling me all the things he wanted to get. I tried to handle that. I stopped multiple times and composed myself and my children. The lady that I stopped and moved to the side of the aisle for glared at me because I moved the wrong way, she needed behind me not in front of me. No words, just a glare. I tried to handle that. And then we saw balloons. Oh how my kids love balloons. They wanted the huge ones that cost $8.00. I compromised. We would get one balloon and share. They agreed. They each said "share" and smiled as I picked the biggest Mickey Mouse balloon they had. But while we were checking out they did not want to share. They screamed, they cried, they fought. I handed the balloon to another cashier to be put back and they cried louder. My youngest pushed buttons on the card machine while my oldest picked up candy. The people in line behind me glared. The cashier glared. Everyone's eyes were on me as if to say "can't you control your own children". One older gentleman whispered, "she's pretty young for two kids" and I lost it. She handed me my receipt and I cried. They don't know me. They don't know me as a mother. They don't know my children. They don't know I was married before I started a family. They don't know I left that marriage because of abuse knowing I would have it just as hard as a single mother. It's hard people. The glares and whispers and judgments are hard. Sometimes I can control my children and sometimes I can't. Sometimes they listen and sometimes they don't. Sometimes I can handle it and sometimes I break down. I know these days will pass, the tears will stop, the fighting will cease, and my babies will be grown. And that will be hard too. So if you see a parent struggling, if you see a kid throwing a tantrum, if you see a mom on the verge of tears...please say something nice. Please don't glare with judgement. And to all moms out there having a day like mine...I see you, I know you, I love you. You are strong and you are doing just fine.

Motherhood is tough. And a lot of people—who presumably have moms themselves—don't understand the emotional and physical difficulty of parenting, a job that's hard to quit. So next time you see a mom out in the wild, don't be an a-hole. Just like your mom, she's working this damn hard job and doing the best she can.

Chloë Grace Moretz and Brooklyn Beckham have split up, said mysterious sources, according to Page Six. Because we all learned from Grease that summer flings don't mean a thing... ​but oh oh the summer nights/oh well/oh well/oh well/oh—

According to these sources, the 17-year-old son of Victoria and David Beckham is back in London after breaking up with the 19-year-old actress. The teens' love affair may have been brief (and not entirely legal, since Brooklyn is underage), but it is heavily documented on Instagram, where it will live forever. Or at least until one or both of them deletes the pics.

Brooklyn even deleted an Instagram pic of him wearing Kanye West's fashion line, in support of his then-gf in her feud with the Kardashians.

Tell me more/tell me more/like did he have a car?

But the mysterious sources told Page Six that the teens were not spending time together over the past few weeks, despite being in the same city.

Summer dreams ripped at the seams but oh those summer nights.

It's not too late to turn things around, you two!! Brooklyn just needs to show up at the school fair dressed as a jock, and Chloe in skin tight leather pants and smoking, because love changing who you are conquers all.

Tell me more, tell me mo-o-ore.

If you've watched Netflix's sci-fi series Stranger Things, you are probably familiar with Barb, the seemingly plain friend of Nancy who captured the hearts of viewers with her cute cropped red hair and giant spectacles, becoming the surprise sweetheart of the series. Barb-mania is sort of a phenomenon, so when her character was heartlessly left to die at the hands of the demogorgon (oh, spoiler alert btw), dreams of Barb's return were crushed. That is, until she resurfaced on Wednesday night's episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Barb, played by Tonight Show head writer A.D. Miles, is joined by Fallon (stepping in for Joe Keery as Steve Harrington), and the actual stars of Stranger Things—Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, and Caleb McLaughlin.

Maybe the newly confirmed season two of Stranger Things will have some justice for Barb? Otherwise, fans would definitely settle for Orange is the New Bitch. That sounds excellent and very binge-able.

On Wednesday night, hours after going to Mexico to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Donald Trump gave an immigration policy speech in Phoenix. Since the day was all about Mexico, someone in Trump's campaign decided to eschew the standard red "Make America Great Again" hat and instead throw former New York mayor Rudy "Nine what?" Giuliani and Alabama Senator Jeff "Real Name Jefferson" Sessions on stage in white hats that read "Make Mexico Great Again Also" (because grammar). It was a ridiculous but pretty successful plan, because Twitter can't stop talking about it.

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Pumpkin Spice Latte season is upon us, the time to sip the autumnal breeze in a cup and quickly drink back all the calories you just burned in your SoulCycle class. And as the Uggs of beverages visits us again, it's bringing another caloric concoction along with it: the Chile Mocha.

Doubling down on the "spice" aspect of the Pumpkin Spice Latte, the Chile Mocha brings the heat, with cocoa and cinnamon powder, ancho and cayenne chile pepper, cinnamon, paprika, sugar, and sea salt.

"The team was inspired by other sweet and spicy flavors such as mole, horchata, and a thick Mexican drink called champurrado," Starbucks writes on their site, infusing some culture among the basic-ness.

The Chile Mocha promises to bring the heat, but the Pumpkin Spice Latte remains the diva of the menu.

Rihanna and Drake kissed on stage again last night during Drake's concert in Miami, proving that they are just one Facebook relationship status away from being an official couple.

A fan captured a video of the kiss, and it's slightly less awkward than the smooch the two shared on stage at the VMAs on Sunday, right after Drake declared that he had been in love with Rihanna "since I was 22 years old." Progress!

This time it looks like Rihanna actually wanted to kiss Drake. Which is a step up from this awkward kiss-or-whatever-that-was they shared at the VMAs.

It seems like these two are most definitely probably a couple, since the night after the VMAs they went out for a two hour sushi dinner date before swinging by Rihanna's apartment. Plus, there's the whole he-bought-her-a-billboard thing.

Also, their PDA is becoming more bearable to watch. Maybe next time they kiss in public, Rihanna won't even pull away and we can all stop holding our breath and relax knowing these two are definitely a thing.

It's officially September, and despite it being 80+ degrees out here in New York, that means it's FALL, BABY! Break out the hoodies (even though you will sweat through them), the dark lipstick (even though you will sweat it off) and prepare for your 'winter body' by consuming a totally-worth-it amount of calories via Starbucks pumpkin spice latte.

Usually Starbucks starts selling their gourd-inspired beverage after Labor Day, but you can get one now (yes, RIGHT NOW) if you are sneaky. Here is how.

First, you have to become a rewards member. You can do that here. Then you need to follow this sentient pumpkin spice latte with 110k+ Twitter followers. Yes, swallow your pride and just follow it, nobody needs to know. Then follow this link to unlock a pass that will get you a PSL five whole days before any of your friends.

On the outside, you may be trying to contain your excitement for consuming liquefied pumpkin and coffee, but on the inside you will definitely be like:

Another day, another YouTube video of people acting cray after getting their wisdom teeth pulled. In a quite possibly totally not staged video, a young woman yells at her mother about how she's choking on a "big, fat black dick" as the mother struggles to get the drugged-up teen in the car. Obviously, the specifics are so over-the-top that it raises skepticism, but it's not like she's hallucinating—it could just be a teen who's high enough to try and piss off her mom with jokes her friends would probably laugh at.

Her friends filming the incident clearly don't see her mother struggling, because they're too occupied capturing the "spontaneous" moment.

Also, who would ever say this in front of their mother?

Regardless of whether it was staged, it is humorous, and this young woman clearly has a knack for capturing attention.

But, America, heed this word of advice from your friends here at Someecards: turn your phones horizontally to capture these viral life moments. It'll make filming that next "spontaneous" wisdom tooth video all the more visually appealing.

With parents a non-starter and friends beginning to sex at different speeds, many people turn to the Internet for their questions about doin' it. Even though sex isn't always between a one P and one V, and virginity could mean a lot of different things, people still ask strangers on the Yahoo Answers to help them make sense of their own sexual experiences.

(The craziest part is almost always the spelling and grammar errors, maintained here for ultimate hilarity.)

Here are 14 people who straight-up asked Yahoo Answers if they were virgins, because that's what you get in a country with abstinence-only sex education.

1. You never forget your first tampon.

Did I just lose my virginity?

Ok I know this is gonna sound stupid. But it was the time of month for me that I was supposed to get period. So I didn't wanna bleed through my underwear so I put in a tampon. But I didn't actually know if I had my period or not. When I took out the tampon there was no blood. So I put another one and it kinda hurt like really bad. When I pulled out later there was blood. Then I started getting cramps so I though I had my period. But the other times I put in a tampon there wasn't that much blood. So I was wondering if you can lose your virginity if you shove it up too far? I don't really care cuz I wasn't planning in having sex anyways. I'm 16 btw so I actually wanna wait. But is it my period or did I jut pop my own cherry? Lol this is so weird.

2. Is grammar ruin internet?

Is masturbate harm virginity?

i used to go to my girlfriend house and we were kissing... each other we use to masturbate for each other and she is a virgin dose that cause loseing virginity?its some thing raelly on my mind because sadly we are no longer together
(i did very nice and soft)

Update: i mean the hymen
and i was so soft and smooth and there was no blood that shows its hurt(usualy haymen when hymen is lost blood comes)

3. Life moves pretty fast.

Confused about virginity?

Okay this might be to much information but i'm really confused about this..

So i have only had sex this one time im confused if i really lost my virginity or not though?
it only lasted for a couple minutes and it didn't hurt at all.. i know he was going in all the way though (i was on top) but if my hymen broke wouldn't it have hurt??? it was the day my period ended and when i went to the bathroom after i was spotting a little bit..i don't know if it was from the sex or not.

I'm just wondering if i really lost my virginity or if i should still consider myself a virgin?

4. Bloody hell.

Did I lose my virginity? plz serious answers?

I'm not sure if I'm still a virgin or not.

I had sex for the first time a while ago and I'm not sure if I lose my virginity because I don't know if he put his penis in me all the way.

I did bleed though.

5. Are you still a virgin if you spell it "vigrin"?

Question about virginity?

I don't know who to ask about this but I don't know if I'm a vigrin. this is a really weird question. But if you masturbate or get fingered are you still a virgin? Some people said your a virgin until you have sex with a man. But how do I know my hymen (I think thats what it is called, or whatever breaks when you lose your virginity) How do I know its not broken already? I really want to know? But I dont want to go to the doctor? There was a tiny really small bit of blood one time when I fingered but that was it???? help!!!!????

6. The virginity is on the loose.

Masturbating: will i loose my virginity?

i feel lyk trying out masturbation. but i fear that i will loose my virginity. any help here would be great

7. I don't even know what this means.

Women’s if they have long gap between first and second sex they claim virginity?

If a women lost her virginity once and after long gap if they have sex as second time is it possible to find her virginity?

8. This one's refreshingly to the point.

Did I lose my virginity?

Would you consider penetration and one thrust to have been an act of losing your virginity?

We didnt actually have "sex," we just wanted to see what it would feel like inside. I don't think I will be sleeping with him at all, at this point, but it sucks to think that I lost my virginity without actually having real sex. What do you think?

We've fooled around a lot, having done oral and with fingers and such, but never actually the real thing.

9. Did you check for your virginity in the couch cushions?

I can I tell if I've lost my virginity?

Everyone keeps making fun of me because I haven't lost my virginity. The problem is I don't know what it looks like or where its even located. When does my virginity fall off? Does an adult virginity grow in after you loose it like when you loose baby teeth?

10. Porn will never leave you.

Did I lose my virginity?

I know this is a naive question but I was watching porn and masturbating {I have done it before] and I cumed for the first time, but does that mean I just lost my virginity to a porn movie???

11. Side effects may vary.

Did I lose my virginity?

Hello I'm an 18 years old lady, I lost my hymen by mistake from water when I was on the end of my period 4 years ago, is there any kind of test I can do to prove that I lost it by mistake? And that I am still version? And does that make a side effect for my health? I'm scared not to get pregnant after I marry. Thank you

12. That's some smooth shampoo.

Did i lose my virginity?

i was showering and i fell down on the shampoo bottle and then i found 1 drop of blood on the bottles head. did i lose my virginty? how to know without going to the doctor?

13. Let's blow this Popsicle stand.

Did I lose my virginity?

I masturbated with a frozen Popsicle. when I was finished I seen blood but I didn't push the Popsicle all the way pass the main wall. my period isn't on either . after I was done I felt alittle stingy sensation. I hope I didn't lose my virginity . did I?

14. It is some P-in-V action.

Did i really lose my virginity?

I was in the bathroom and I wiped my bottom really hard where my vagina is. It hurt for like 5 minutes. There was no bleeding. I'm really scared because I don't want to lose it right now before sex. I didnt have ANY sexual intercourse...

This is why we need sex ed in schools.

Here's an idea for women looking to make a few quick bucks: sell your dirty underwear. Didn't know there was a market for it? Well, there is, and one woman who wore her panties for a solid three weeks and then sold them for $5,000.

The 21-year-old full-time student signed up on Sofia Gray, an online marketplace for "lovingly used underwear." She told Cosmopolitan,"I saw that some girls were making good money from this, so I thought I'd try it out," adding, "I try to list three or four pairs each week, although I can get a bit lazy."

In six months of selling her underwear, she'd made about four grand, but at the behest of a buyer with whom she'd worked before, she pulled off the greatest panty feat in the history of the website by wearing the same pair every day for three weeks in exchange for $5,000.

Gynecologist Alyssa Dweck, M.D. spoke to Cosmopolitan about the dangers of not changing your underwear for 21 days: "There's certainly an increased chance of yeast infection and of bacterial vaginosis, which is an imbalance of the usual bacterial environment in the vagina. These types of bugs trend to thrive in warm, moist dark places."

On one hand, gross. On the other hand, FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. The woman called the whole experience "a nightmare," and has no plans to do it again. But she never considered cheating, explaining, "Some of these buyers know their underwear—they'll catch on."

Sometimes, in relationships, you mess up. And that's OK, as long as you own up to it and apologize. This girl's boyfriend just became the master of saying "Sorry."

Reddit user Nessie_Assassin (known IRL as Caite Grosh) recently shared this photo of an apology present she received from her boyfriend, Trevor Lagers, after they had a minor fight.

The caption reads: "The boyfriend got in trouble yesterday. He sent flours to my office today to apologize."

Can we get a slow clap for Trevor?

It'd be kind of impossible not to forgive your significant other after they came through with the funniest, most pun-tastic apology gift ever, which Grosh confirmed.

“He not only made my day, but also everyone in the office became a fan,” she told The Huffington Post. “[He was] definitely forgiven.”

#RelationshipGoals.

Thanks to unreliable sex education in most public schools, kids usually learn about the birds and the bees by piecing together rumors born out of lengthy games of telephone, urban-legend like stories and what they see on TV. Being the diligent and ever-curious journalist I am, I decided to further investigate this by asking my friends what weird sex things they believed as kids. Buckle up, folks, you're in for a sexually misinformed ride.

First of all, kids who don't get an outright sex talk look to TV, movies, and other forms of media to learn about sex. It definitely sends some mixed signals.

"When I heard the Shaggy song "It Wasn't Me" and he says they were caught banging on the bathroom floor I imagined it was literally laying naked banging your fists on the floor."

"I thought you only had it on a piano like in Pretty Woman. Like, you had to go find a piano to do it. And then you just rubbed up on each other."

"When I was a kid, I gathered from a EverybodyLovesRaymond episode that babies were made by a woman and a man touching their nipples together​."

Then there are the children who get their information from other ill-informed children.

"The first girl in my neighborhood to get the sex talk from her parents relayed the message to all of the other kids in the neighborhood but she told us the man fully removes a testicle and inserts it inside the woman's vagina and that is how a baby is made and her mom said it "felt kinda good.""

"The girl who lived next door would sometimes come over to play and one day she wanted to play a game about a girl who had "sexual potion." I didn't know what sex was at that point, so I asked her and she told me "you know on TV when grownups are seen in bed without their clothes on?" "Oh, right." ...that's all I knew for a while."

"I thought that condoms went on the balls. A friend told me that I believed him - the penis wasn't involved at all. Just balls wrapped in rubber."

"I was on a three-way call with my two best friends at like 10 or 11. I was the only boy (I was essentially out very early in life, surrounded by girls always). ANYWAY, they were both like, 'We know you’d know the answer to this. Is a blow job like a lollipop, or like blowing on a hot potato?'"

A common theme was that a lot of people thought that having sex meant getting peed in or peed on. I mean, unless you're into that sort of thing.

"I believed you got pregnant when the man peed in you."

"I thought a man stood up and peed on a woman who was laying down."

"In second grade a friend told me sex was peeing into a butt."

And then there are the inexplicable beliefs that only a child's mind can make sense of.

"I thought everyone was born with a penis and if your parents wanted a girl they would just cut it off, and that if you were badly behaved it would grow back. Lived in fear."

"I believed babies came out of the belly button and that when you had a baby after night time the doctors would leave you in the hospital alone in the dark. Like an empty department store."

"When I was six, I kissed a life size Barbie on the lips, thinking it was sex. I then dated her for a good month but had to call it quits cause I realized I was gay."

"When I learned about sex in school (a Catholic school) the teacher kept saying how 'it only takes ONE time' to get pregnant and ruin our lives. I believed for quite some time that sperm just swam around a woman's body for eternity until it finally hit an egg."

"I thought that if you have sex before marriage you get AIDS no matter what."

"My definition of French kissing was when you sucked off all the lipstick."

"I was certain in 3rd grade condoms were short for condominiums."

"I thought that you could get pregnant by having sex but you could also get pregnant without it. Not like immaculate inception. Just like it could happen. Also, I thought women's boobs could be lifted up and it would be all bloody and gross underneath and that women's butt cheeks were like large eggs, no doubt because of mom jeans, and they could become infinitely large. My mother told me they could and I believed her."

"When I was 12, I heard about dudes getting boners and was super confused and curious. I read in Seventeen magazine that you could give a guy a boner by blowing in his ear, so I went up to a boy at camp and said “I have to tell you a secret,” blew in his ear looked to see if his penis popped up. Turns out that’s not the blowing the dudes like."

Well, that was a doozy. I guess the downside to not having proper sexual education would be things like STDs and STIs, teen pregnancy, and increased chances of sexual misconduct, but hey, at least we'd get more funny stories like these! Ugh, everyone please use a condom. And don't put it around your balls.

Whoopi Goldberg essentially just told the New York Times, when it comes to marriage, she's all Not in my house, get that devil child FAR away from ME.

The Oscar winner and current moderator of The View said in response to a question about her thoughts on marriage:

No, I think I’m not that interested. I’m much happier on my own. I can spend as much time with somebody as I want to spend, but I’m not looking to be with somebody forever or live with someone. I don’t want somebody in my house.

But seriously, let's be real, Whoopi be smoking all that weed. Who needs a partner when you're that high? She's been a vocal advocate of medical marijuana use, telling The Times,

If I want to get high, I can go do that at any time. It’s about treating my glaucoma.

Get it girl.

She even talked about how she got the idea for her new line of non-smokable medical-cannabis products that help women with menstrual pain...

A friend of mine was talking about a few famous people launching marijuana lines, and I asked if anyone was doing a menstrual line, and they laughed at me. They called it a niche market. But the niche market is half the population on Earth.

Love her or hate her, she certainly never holds back.

No one has ever been as excited about losing their v-card as Paris Hilton is about losing her Burning Man virginity. In fact, no one has ever been this excited about anything. Unless there were drugs involved. And there may have been drugs involved, since she is at Burning Man.

Or maybe she's just excited about rolling around in the dust in the Nevada desert while sporting this alien-meets-S&M-style bathing suit and a new hairstyle, which looks suspiciously like cornrows.

Or maybe she's excited to be hanging out with this famous crew, including her brother Barron Hilton and models/sisters Poppy and Cara Delevingne.

Or maybe she's excited because she can... fly?

Yeah, it's got to be drugs. Eventually the high will wear off and she'll realize she's stuck in the desert with a bunch of hippies and no hot water. But until then, YOLO!

The kids from Stranger Thingscontinue to be the coolest youths around after appearing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallonwhere they play a cleverly named game called "Stranger Strings" (try not to die laughing). The kids plus Jimmy have to guess which secret belongs to which cast member, but it's actually just an excuse to shoot Jimmy Fallon in the face with silly string. It turns out that Millie Bobby Brown's secret is that she can flawlessly rap along to Nicki Minaj's "Monster," because there is nothing this kid can't do. The rapping begins at 4:40, but these kids are so freaking awesome that you will probably just want to watch the entire thing.

With season two of Stranger Things confirmed, how about Eleven takes a turn and becomes a child rapper? Wait. What do you mean that would ruin the show?!

Julie Koehler was taking her three daughters, ages 4, 5, and 8, to a party in Evanston, IL when she decided to make a quick stop at Starbucks. It was 70 degrees in Chicago, and she lowered the windows of her minivan and opened the sliding side door. And then, as Reason.com reports, in the three minutes it took her to buy coffee, a cop came to investigate the situation and scared her young daughters to tears.

Koehler, a public defender, dashed back to the minivan and brusquely asked the cop to explain what was going on. As she explained to Reason.com, he yelled back at her, demanded to see her ID, and accused her of child abuse. The officer told Koehler that he could take her children from her, at which point she called her husband and mother and asked them to come get her. The cop gave her back her ID and she thought that was the end of it, until an agent from the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) showed up at her home two days later.

In an interview with Reason.com, Koehler explained:

"Despite my telling her [the] facts, my children becoming hysterical when she questioned them about the police officer, and my offering to provide witnesses (the two Starbucks employees who were totally shocked at the situation)...she faxed a report to my pediatrician's office requiring my children to undergo a physical examination."

Koehler was also questioned about her mental health and whether or not she was taking any medication, and asked to provide two references, who were also questioned about her mental health. A month later, she got a letter from the DCFS saying that the report was "unfounded," but that they'd be keeping a copy of the report for one to three years. Koehler has since filed a request that the DCFS be classified as an "intentional false report," writing, "As you are most undoubtedly aware, there is no specific law indicating that it is unlawful to leave your child unattended in a vehicle."

It seems like overkill that a police officer, who presumably has seen the bad side of humanity, would accuse a clearly responsible mother of abusing her children. True, she left her kids alone in the car momentarily, but they were never even out of her sight line. Had he just turned around and looked into Starbucks, he would have seen her waving. Perhaps if she hadn't been confrontational with the officer, he wouldn't have reacted so harshly. But that still doesn't justify asking her about her mental health. Koehler explained:

That is so far beyond the scope of an appropriate question from a legal standpoint. I have to get court orders and waivers signed to get medical information regarding a client. And as a mother, what a scary question!

It certainly is. While it's a good thing cops are concerned about kids left alone in cars on a hot July day, this is one situation that got much more out of control than it needed to be.

Labor Day is the official end of summer. For moms, that means three long, exhausting months of project managing the hyperactive misadventures of their love critters is coming to a blessed close. But not quite yet. The final hurdle is the second long weekend of the season. Moms SHOULD be able to celebrate the last few minutes of being able to wear white (not that any mom in her right mind would wear white around a toddler.) But the truth is different. So here are 5 ways to celebrate Labor Day if you're a mom and this was a perfect world. But it isn't. (Instructions on how to win the gift card are at the bottom of the page.)

1. Sleep In, You Deserve It

The truth: Your kids will be up at dawn making the same amount of noise as a construction crew renovating the living room with jackhammers. Yes, it would be nice to just stay snuggled in bed until, like, 8 AM. But you have responsibilities: namely, keeping your children alive long enough for them to move out and force you to pay for their college education. On the bright side: once they've moved out you can sleep in all you want, until 8:30 AM if you want!

2. Soak Up Some Rays By The Pool

The truth: You deserve to stretch out poolside and relax. That is, if you're lucky enough to have a pool, or a neighbor with a pool, or, even, an inflatable pool. But that probably won't happen because someone skinned their knee, or puked in the kitchen sink, or is having a totally random and nuclear meltdown. Pools are not meant to be enjoyed by adults. They're basically just backyard decorations that little kids will occasionally jump in to pee. Oh, by the way, you way want to use the pool net to fish out the weird island of hair floating in the deep end.

3. Enjoy A Cocktail

The truth: There really is nothing like a mojito or margarita. But who has time to make such a complicated adult beverage? Moms have 1,000 errands to run, always. Maybe later, once you've shlepped all around town and sat in traffic for hours, you can pour yourself a nice glass of red wine. But, whatever you do, don't wear white while you do that. With kids, you're just asking for it.

4. Flirt With The Cute Guy At The Neighborhood BBQ

The truth: The cute single guy from down the street will be at the annual BBQ party. So make sure to wear something sexy. And make your famous pasta salad. And, if you can, duct tape bubble wrap around your kids and dump them in the bathtub. This will make flirting with cute single guy easier, because there won't be any tiny people ruining your game.

5. Suddenly Realize The Kids Are Going Back To School

The truth: Labor Day is a long weekend in every sense of the word. Your kids want to end the summer with a bang. Because they know what's coming: school is starting soon. Which is great news to anyone who would like a few hours to themselves during the weekday. Believe it or not, single moms have better things to do with their time than chasing their brood around the house. Congratulations on surviving another summer.

We said you'd have a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card! So here are the giveaway instructions:

How are you celebrating Labor Day? Let us know in the comments. And while we're talking about comments: 25 lucky commenters picked randomly will win a $50 Amazon gift certificate. If you win, use that gift certificate to buy yourself something nice because you work hard. Or, more likely, buy junior a new backpack. You're such a good parent. So get those commenting fingers warmed up and let us know about your holiday. Then cross those fingers!

• Entries will be randomly selected from comments on this post.
• Contest is open to all residents of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec), 18 or older!
• Winners will be chosen randomly. One (25) winners will receive one (1) $50 Amazon Gift Certificate. If you are chosen, you will be notified by Facebook Messenger. Winners must respond within three days of being contacted. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen. We do not track any of this information for marketing or third-party purposes.
• The full list of rules, in all its legalese glory, can be found here.
• Entries can be submitted until September 5th at 11:59PM ET. Good luck!