How I rue the warm autumn day in 2009 when my mom emailed me a note on bitcoin from some obscure "New Age" website and I was too arrogant to even read it.
lol! Your mum got in before you! That's rich! 
It's quite sad actually. She wanted to get $100 worth. IIRC MtGox wasn't even around at that time, but I think there was some other way to buy some. I had it in my head that it was just some stupid video game money so I didn't put forth than 20 min of effort it would have taken to help her.
Dont worry, I'm sure 10k BTC would've troubled her now. As I'm sure your stack will be enough to care for your needs.