Hello, everyone. This is CBS News radio correspondent Alison Keys. Mother's Day is coming up,

and I had the pleasure of speaking with Nora O'Donnell about what it means to be a mom.

From exploring how motherhood has changed since the pandemic to developments in making

child care easier, we are highlighting the challenges and joys of being such an

important figure in our lives. I hope you all enjoy the listen and check out the upcoming

week-long series Moms in Focus that begins on Monday, May 8th, on the CBS Evening News with

Nora O'Donnell. So I guess we should start out with, well, you're a mom. So I guess I wonder what you are thinking about

yourself this Mother's Day. Well, Mother's Day is, I think, a moment to pause and think and show

our appreciation for mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, caregivers, that important person in your life that you depend on.

I think about my own mother a lot on Mother's Day and I feel like, you know, maybe I don't always

tell her how much I appreciate her and how much I love her and I know how much she sacrificed for me.

And so whether it's a gift and a nice meal and a card, I know it goes a long

way with my own mother. For me, I can remember my very first Mother's Day and thinking,

you know, wow, this is different. This is new. I'm really excited. And now the thing I most appreciate

on Mother's Day is those notes from my kids. I don't need a gift

or flowers or something like that, but it's the cards and the little notes that they send that I

save in a drawer in my office that are really sweet. And of course, they change over time as they get

older and understand different things. So I think for all of us, writing notes of thanks to people

is something we should do all year long, but notes of thanks to people is something we should do

all year long, but on Mother's Day, it's something we do in particular and maybe spend a

little more time letting our mothers know how much we appreciate them, let the caregivers in our

lives know how much we couldn't live without them. I wonder what you think are some of the challenges

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