Mother’s Day

Sadly, no. My mom had Alzheimer’s by the time I had my kid and we were in the process of finding a nursing home for her. My kid was born after Mother’s Day had already passed for the year, and when my first actual Mother’s Day rolled around DH said, “Why would I get you a gift? You’re not MY mother.” Seriously dude? I told him that kids don’t come out automatically knowing how to honor their parents, it’s something they have to be taught and maybe he didn’t want me to teach our kid that HE should be honored on Father’s Day? That shut him right up.

I will say though that up until she passed, my BFF’s mom always sent me cards on Mother’s Day. She was the best. 

In my family we celebrated birthdays and Mother's/Father's day. I celebrated my mom and wonderful mil and my dh/sons celebrated me. As a mother, myself, I only had 3 Mother's Days w/my mom and the 3rd she was in hospice.

The day is bittersweet for me and others I know who have lost their moms. I enjoy my family, but I would give anything if my mother could have seen her grandchildren grow up. So, there's always a bit of sadness, too.

I sent my daughter flowers for her first mother's day. I can't remember ever getting something for mother's day myself.

My mom sent me a little figurine that her mom had gotten her when she (mom) had me.

My mother lived across the country when I had my first mother’s day; I don’t recall she or my MIL doing anything. I will say when my kids were very small and either my mother or MIL (or both) were in town, they both were really intent on having us all go out for brunch at a nice restaurant and it was stressful for me as the person charged with keeping toddlers and babies quiet; the nicest thing my mother/MIL could have done would have been to either agree to a nice brunch at home or agree to leave the kids at home with my husband and just have the mothers go out—I used to really dread mother’s day!

I like the small keepsake idea upthread, and flowers are always nice!

I send my dd a bouquet of flowers and sign it from her boys.... she is a single mom.. so she will get flowers during the week....

If we are off work then we will go to lunch... if we work then no dinner... lol

In send my mom n sister a card...

I don't think she did anything for my first Mother's Day. Been so long, but in past years she would buy me and my sister something wither it be a bouquet of flowers or new dish towels for the kitchen. My Bi: always got me flowers and now my nephew has been giving me flowers as he does for all mothers in our family.

I am not a mother, However I am a "dog mom" and my sweet husband has ALWAYS honored that with cards and a gift from the dog....Usually plants/ or GC from the nursery for the yard....which I love!!
I do the same for him for FD, only this year for FD and his BD he is getting a new saw.....as his died.

My son and DIL had a little girl in August. DIL's mom likes a big to-do for MD for herself. She expects the kids to take her out to a $$$ champagne brunch. I told my son to make it special for his wife since she's the new mom and doing all of the hard work. We are lucky and see them every week, so not seeing them on MD wouldn't hurt my feelings in the least. I will get her a card and something for selfcare for her.

For her first Mother’s Day, I was actually living with DD, SIL and baby because DD had to go back to work when my grandson was six weeks old. I traveled 1000 miles from where I lived in Texas to stay with them for about three months. I remember getting her flowers and making dinner for all of us since the baby was so small. It was very nice.

Normally, Mother’s Day was kind of a Bah humbug thing for me. The queen, mother, a.k.a., my mother-in-law, commandeered all major holidays for herself. It was known that all of us were expected to make an appearance at her royal highness the queen’s chosen event. She never notified us until the night before, then she let us know where and when to appear and how to dress, what we were expected to bring, etc. It got very old, very quickly. Since all the holidays were all about his mother, my DH has never had my birthday, our anniversary, or Christmas presents on his radar. I think I can count on one hand the number of times he has bought me presents. It’s just the way it is. Now that I think about it, I don’t think he even knows when my birthday is. Good thing I don’t believe in any of that love language BS or I’d be one unhappy person. Ha.

I did however alway get my mother flowers for Mother’s Day. My older sister started the tradition and when she died, I continued the tradition until my mother died. For a lot of years my DD took flowers to the cemetery.