May is the best month of the year. It holds my birthday AND my Mother's Day. Like my newest character, Maggie Weston, I consider holidays as "mine." No one better infringe on them (I'm talking to you, Alex the Ex).

With Mother's Day comes flowers. I tell my husband never, ever buy me roses for Mother's Day (which is when a dozen skyrockets from about $10 to $25) or for my birthday (it's too close to Mother's Day). Instead, I'll take a bookstore gift card. Or, if he is utterly compelled to buy me flowers (since a small part of me still wants them--ahh, I'm such a contrarian!), he can go to Trader Joe's and get a handful of tulips for five bucks. (And then add the extra money to my giftcard.)

As I thought flowers, I also thought bugs. Warmer weather brings such beauty...and such pestilence! In the story-building world, you want to create yin and yang characters. And that's my Maggie and Augustus: she loves all things Mother's Day (beautiful things and children) and he's all things bugs as a college professor and researcher of entomology (harboring an obsession for mosquitoes and an apathy toward children).

I love science nerds (Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory anyone?). And I love all those fun, labor-intensive party ideas on Pinterest (photo booth stations with props anyone?). And I absolutely adore when two complete opposites come together and try to co-exist on the same earthly plane.

Because that, in a nutshell, sums up my Curly and Bugs, aka, Maggie and Augustus.

Bad Mom Rents a Man: Mother's Day is out now on Amazon.