Posted by: cc Date posted: Thu May 1 22:10:22 2008
Message: I don't have plans yet. This weekend we have a mother daughter breakfast at church. My dd asked me today what I want for MD. I usually get my mom flowers or planters that she can use outdoors.
Posted by: Kat Date posted: Thu May 1 16:35:18 2008
Message: My mother hates Mothers Day and her BD is the 13th, so, I ordered her a really nice gift basket from Wine Country Gift Baskets, to be delivered to her. It contains chocolate - hopefully that should make her eat!!! I'll go see her around MD or her BD.
Posted by: kitty Date posted: Thu May 1 14:00:01 2008
Message:
We have been doing the same thing for my Mom for years. There are 8 of us kids around. So we get together & clean her house from top to bottom. We wash windows, clean cupboards inside & out, get her outdoor furniture ready & cleaned, plant flowers etc. . We do as much as possible. We bring a dish to pass so she doesn't feel the need to cook. We actually have a good time.
For myself, I just have hubby take us all for dinner or I get to be in the house all by myself. That is a treat these days. LOL!
I so many good memories. Mostly just being with my family. Nothing fancy.
Posted by: Blondie Date posted: Thu May 1 12:41:37 2008
Message: Since my Dad passed away in '06, we've started a tradition on Mother's Day. My brother and family come from Chicago to my mom's at the lake and my family, his family, and maybe a few friends go over and help my Mom summerize her yard and house. We wash down all the patio furniture, trim branches on trees, take out her potted plants, etc.....and then in the evening we'll have a cookout and bonfire down by the lake.
Posted by: Chewbacca Date posted: Thu May 1 10:22:24 2008
Message: On May 15, Mom and I, along with her SIL and a friend and her daughter, are going to NYC for a day of shopping and sightseeing. This is part of her Mother's Day. But on the actual day I think we're just having a family cookout. She didn't feel like going out to eat. I will be giving her money for NYC and if Hallmark still has them, a crystal butterfly suncatcher. I'm also baking her a chocolate cake with low-fat cream cheese frosting.
Posted by: SherylM Date posted: Thu May 1 9:49:22 2008
Message: This will be the first Mother's Day for Mom in a Nursing Home which is a mixed blessing! I already sent her a new spring nightgown and matching robe and a 5 x 7 picture in a frame of our family taken at her 85th birthday party last year. She loved the nightgown and robe but the picture has a sad ending! Mom has vascular dimentia which is not Alzheimers but still dementia. The dimentia comes and goes but thankfully she still knows all of the family. So anyway, Mom started getting obsessed with the picture and told everyone that someone stole it and she got very upset for days about it. When my brother visited last Saturday he found the picture tucked in her suitcase (she had no idea how it got there) but was so relieved that it was safe and insisted my brother take it home because 'people have been stealing things from her room' and she didn't want anything to happen to it! :-( So, that made me sad but now she isn't worried about it and it's 'safe'! She is doing better and is making friends so in a way her life is better than it has been in the last couple of years. I will be visiting with her on Mother's Day weekend and I know that will make her happy!
Posted by: katiesbeach Date posted: Thu May 1 8:44:51 2008
Message:
I want to do something special for my MIL, as she accepted me back so readily in to the family after I had been gone for 13 years. I know that she is very happy for her son, but she could have made things hard on me, and never did. She's really special. Any ideas?
I think I gave my mom the best gift in the world when I went back to hubby. She's always loved him and stayed in touch with him while I was out of the picture.
Posted by: Cettie Date posted: Thu May 1 8:34:26 2008
Message: My mother will be gone 18 years come New Year's eve, I still miss her. This year I'm conducting the church service on Mother's Day and will do something special in memory of mothers as well as honoring the mothers still with us.
Posted by: Nicki Date posted: Thu May 1 1:08:31 2008
Message: The MIL is making dinner for mom's day (which is also my B-day!).lol....so we are coming over and my mom is going too. I got my mom a nice card and some lovely soaps and perfume, we are also giving the moms and hubby N's grandma some flowers. Should be a nice day :O)
Posted by: Ms.Ga.Peach83 Date posted: Thu May 1 0:26:49 2008
Message:
Gotta go get a card for my mom and my MIL.
We may take my MIL out, depends on the money situation with us.
I don't expect to get anything more than a "Happy Mother's Day" from a few folks, but I don't really care. At least THIS Mother's Day I have a child to show for my motherly ways...last year he was just eight weeks new to my belly.
We will have just gotten home from vacation the night before so we have already arranged to send flowers to our mothers. We'll also call them on Mother's Day.
I don't really have special memories of Mother's Day except maybe for the time I picked out a Mother's Day card before I was old enough to read. When Mother opened it, she laughed really hard because it read ''To My Godmother -- You're just like a mother to me.'' How was I supposed to know? I was like 4 years old. Oh well!
Posted by: Boo Date posted: Wed Apr 30 22:49:47 2008
Message: My mom physically passed away almost three years ago, but mentally she was not with us for several years prior to her death. I miss the days back when she was "Mom." Her physical death was truly a blessing, as she was a most unhappy lady in the last years. I know she, my dad and brother are all with me, everyday, so really Mother's Day is just another day I remember all of them.
Posted by: misspm Date posted: Wed Apr 30 22:12:46 2008
Message: My own mom passed away three years ago this month-but I will do a recognition of Mom's at church and then give them a gift. We are also having a High Tea in May.
Posted by: Bonk5 Date posted: Wed Apr 30 22:07:44 2008
Message: It is a sad day as my mom died 2 years ago and my MIL is also gone. But I am a mom, so I hope those kids do something. Daughter will be home for college by then so thats good! They usually make me breakfast in bed. Then we go to a park or movies or something! Just a easy day. But I am really busy bc my son's college Grad party and Husbands 50th is coming up end of May!
