MOM!

For a good long while, I was nothing.  Then I was "mamamama".  Then I was "Mama".  Then I was sometimes "Mommy" (but preferred Mama).  And now.  Now I am frequently "Mom".  Often said in a shout as in "MOM!!!  I need_____".  And almost always with the somewhat patronizing tone of a surly teenager sans the eye roll.  I.e. "No, we don't eat dinosaur meat, MOM."