Date: 2008-05-11 12:02 Subject: An amazing Atlanta-area mom gets served breakfast in bed...by Emeril Security: Public Mood: impressed Music: The All My Children theme

This story published in my local paper will probably amaze you...not so much for the event itself as for the woman it celebrates and the sheer quantity of children (17), grandchildren and even great-grandchildren she has brought into the world. ABC's early-AM news show Good Morning America held a contest in which viewers were invited to tell the producers why their mother deserved to have a Mother's Day breakfast cooked for her by none other than N'Awlins' own Emeril Lagasse, and served to her in bed at her home. Dee Wissing of Marietta, GA won...and on Friday morning, had the big surprise delivered to her by Mr. "Bam!" himself and three generations of her descendants. The breakfast was, no doubt, prepared at the tony Buckhead eatery of Emeril's here; and GMA even supplied the bed...out on the Wissings' front lawn.

I know I keep beating the drum about how human overpopulation is straining the world's natural resources...but it's still hard not to feel the old heart-strings tugged on reading this, for some reason. To inspire this kind of love, the woman must have done something right.