Virginia Woman Wins Mother of the Year Award in a Landslide
Myla Madson was recently named 2008 Mother of the Year, and is already campaigning for the repeat in 2009. A statement
released earlier by Ms. Madson stated that she was unaware she had even been nominated and that the award had come as
a complete, but certainly not shocking, surprise to her.
She was notified of her victory on December 25th, 2008. Contest officials had cleverly hidden her trophy amongst the
Christmas presents beneath the family's tree. Our reporters were still asleep at 4 AM when Ms. Madson unwrapped the
award, but her ten year old daughter caught the exciting moment on film, or at least what appears to be the exciting moment.
Our Photoshop crew is hard at work rebuilding the top of Ms. Madson's head and the pictures should be available in the
coming months.
We understand that the newly crowned Mother of the Year put her trophy immediately to good use, and, citing the early hour
of the official presentation, drank coffee out of it instead of champagne.
One of the most amazing aspects of this story, aside from the graciousness in which Ms. Madson seems to be handling her
victory, was the fact that she won the award in a landslide, receiving 75% of the popular vote.
There are no official reports on the number of voters who made it to the polls, but estimates put it somewhere around four.
Weather may have played a part in the poor turnout, but most believe transportation, restriction and bedtime were significant
key factors as well.
Ms. Madson down-played voter turnout and was instead concentrating on passing legislation to have the name released of
the voter who kept her from receiving a unanimous decision, in hopes, she says, of ensuring a repeat victory in 2009.
Privacy issues and voting laws aside, Ms. Madson intends to uphold the office of Mother of the Year with dignity, honor and
extreme worthiness.
Although there have been numerous reports of others claiming to have won Mother of the Year awards in undocumented
elections all over the country, Ms. Madson has told us that she will defend the legitimacy of her title and proposes a stroller
derby to settle, once and for all, the clear and official Mother of the Year award recipient.
Ms. Madson showed our reporters the well worn bumpers on her child's stroller and said she is a master at "turning you in the
corner" if you get in her way. Black Friday, the notorious free-for-all shopping day after Thanksgiving, was a career day for
Ms. Madson, taking out numerous competitors at the local Toys R Us, all fighting for a limited number of Wii game consoles.
She had no intention of buying the Wii of course; she was just there for the thrill of competition. Child Protective Services
was called in to investigate numerous complaints from angry mothers at the store but had no jurisdiction in the matter once it
was discovered there were no actual children in Ms Madson's stroller, just three fifty pound bags of sand.
The incident was kept from the papers until after the Mother of the Year election results were made official, which has many
would be candidates for the award up in arms. Ms. Madson invites them to the stroller derby as well.
There's no doubt in this reporter's mind that Ms. Madson may well get the trifecta, winning the daughter of the year and
employee of the year awards also, namely by default because she is her mothers only daughter and is self employed, but an
impressive feat none the less.