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Back when I rode a CBR1100XX my license plate was my blood type, "A NEG" carrying your emergency contact information is a good idea. I also had a small laminated picture of my wife and kids on the instrument cluster of my bike. yeah it was fun to open the throttle and go fast, but every time I looked down at my speedometer I saw what was really important. Kept me grounded.
As for your mom, back when I started riding, my mom was a nurse, she worked in a Veterans Administration Kidney Dialysis unit. Everyone of her patients that got a kidney transplant the donor was a young male motorcycle rider who crashed (most not wearing helmets I believe). Her only experience with motorcycles was with those who died and donated organs to her patients. So she was more than slightly biased against motorcycles. Since I lived half way across the country it was pretty easy to just not tell her when I rode.
My mom is now in her 80's, she still doesn't like motorcycles, but she doesn't actively campaign against me riding them.
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