This Mother’s Day, we want to celebrate unforgettable moments we have shared with the incredible women that raised us.

How to participate:
1. Share your favorite memory with your mom(or a mother figure). It can be a photo, a short story, or both!
2. Contest begin begins now and ends May 11, 9:00pm PCT
3. One randomly selected winner will receive Gutter merch.

Let’s honor moms together. Ready to share your memory?

Happy Mother’s Day! All you lovely ladies of the Gutter! 💕

“My ‘other mother’”

It’s Mother’s Day, and it’s my first without my mother.
I still have my ‘other mother’, my mother-in-law.

We didn’t always ‘get along’.
I was not her favorite man or person, for about 15 years.
After that we basically had a detente’.
I don’t blame her, when I was a young man, she couldn’t see the possibilities, she just saw a dumbass. I wouldn’t have wanted me to date or marry my daughter either.

Now though, I am her favorite person, and man other than her husband.
What changed?
Mother’s Day 2011.
I was working for ‘Pratt and Whitney’ in Connecticut, and in their lobby they allowed family members of employees and employees to set up little stands and sell crafts.
Just before Mother’s Day, there was a woman selling hand made jewelry. Her top of the line items were necklaces made with ‘fresh water pearls’.
So I bought one for my lovely lady for Mother’s Day, and went back to work.
For some reason, I got a wild hair and went back about 20 minutes...