Mother's Day on Sunday! Whatcha doin?
 

Some of you might be mommies.
Others of you might have mommies, or grammies, or, if you're super-lucky, two mommies!
Possibly you even have feelings about Mother's Day.

Share them here! :)
Possible discussion includes...


1. Doing anything special for Mother's day?
2. What do you think of Momday? Does it make you happy, sad, confused, ambiguous, stressed, gain weight, etc.?



I have a whole slew of things which are vaguely like mothers. For me, Mother's Day is a complicated-hell-ritual blended with equal parts of madness and sweetness.


So what about you guys? Sadness, happiness, conflict? Forgot about the day entirely?

I think I will buy my mother a candle. No deep thought there, she likes candles and her dog smells like dog butt. After seeing how awesome you are, I feel a bit bad. Maybe I'll get her two candles.

We were planning on having brunch at a fancy bed and breakfast that my mom likes. It's a cute little cottage and the food is great. I'm just hoping I am not working.

I am.. working. XD I might call home at some point if I get the chance.

I'm not doing too much for mothers day.
Considering that I live in Ohio, and she's in Colorado, as well as the fact that she's in a mental hospital and isn't allowed visitors...
Well, it all kinda puts a damper on any plan that I might have come up with in order to celebrate...
Butbutbut....
I am going to send my Aunt Regan some flowers. Because I consider her a mother in place of my real one OuO

Depending on what we're working I'll probably try to cook her something nice for dinner. She's always the one doing the cooking around here so I figure I should probably give her a break. I'll probably try to buy her something nice too. She's been decorating the house and really enjoying it so I'll probably get her something for the basement or her bedroom. Maybe a book too. She's been really attached to her eReader lately.

I've always liked mothers day. My mom works so hard for our family it's nice to give her a day to herself. My dad's a bit of a lazy bum and doesn't do much around the house unless something breaks down. It will be a little more sad this year since we'd always call my Nana and send her a present but she passed away last year. But she lived 20 years past what the doctors told her she would so it was nice to get to spend that time with her.

tanektoshni:
This sentence was the very best of all sentences. Sounds like a good present to me. :)

Obsidian Raven's Song:
I'm sorry to hear about your grandma! It sounds like your family's really close-knit; you have such sweet mother's day ideas! Cooking, and catering to her interests... I always want to do something nice for Momday, but usually I'm not very creative/insightful like that... It's all: flowers! Chocolate! um... flower-shaped-chocolate!

I think all mothers like edible Mother's Day gifts for some reason, though. I'm noticing a theme. :heart:

Strange Fruit:
I think Auntie Mom's are among the best kind. Is this the first year when your mom's location has stalled the Brady-Bunch-classic-Mother's-day?

:hug: I haven't celebrated a mother's day with my actual mom in ten years. Meanwhile, all of the best mother's days I've had have occurred in the past ten years. Your aunt will probably love the flowers.


Mystic:
Ooooh. Bed and breakfast. I'm thinking of adopting a kid now just because that sounds sooooo good.

I think that my boyfriend's brother and his wife are going to come over and cook out for the day.

Seeing as my mom passed away 8 years ago, I don't think I'll be getting her anything. :( I will however give a small prayer and thank her for being the greatest. Same with my boyfriend's mom. She passed away one and a half years ago.

And I doubt my kids will be thinking of something to do for me. :lol: I've been hinting for some of their artwork.

@colorsbold - Haha it may seem creative and nice, but honestly it feels rather uncreative. I just think 'hmm, what does my mom always do for us?' then I do that for her instead. I think it's the simple things like that that really matter anyways.

And everyone likes edible gifts. Especially chocolate. Mmmmm, chocolate *goes to find my stash*

My mom teaches jewelry design and my Mother's Day present to her was signing up for the course...

My mom passed away a few years ago so I'll probably spend some quiet time thinking of her.
My birth mom is still around though and I've recently obtained a relationship with her so I'll have to give her a call. c:

My Grandma on one side of the family passed away just over a year ago. For Mother's day, we put flowers on her grave.

Grandma was Catholic, so she wanted a burial. Most people seem to get cremated these days. Even so, doing some little remembrance ritual can be a good way to get past mother's-day blues if you've lost someone. :hug:

Mmm, yeah, my parents were cremated, so there's no grave for me to visit. ; _;~ Sometimes I wish there was, but I also know that the idea of being buried in the ground creeped my mom out, so, I wanted to make sure to respect her wishes about her body when she passed. ; ;~

If she had a grave I could visit, I would bring her tulips and daffodils...her favorite flowers. c:

My mom was cremated as well. Honestly, I had not known she wanted to be cremated but my dad claimed she did due to the cemetery making a mistake and placing someone halfway over where my dad's plot is. And she didn't want to be buried in the one next to him if he couldn't be put there. Or so I was told.

Roses were my mom's favorite flower. Her urn has roses on it. ;_; Thinking about it now, I really wish I was able to go to my dad's house so I could be near the urn.

I made my mom a bracelet out of some thread I found.. It kind of sucks, but its the thought that counts, right?

monstahh`: & Liztress:
My dad was cremated too. We spread his on the ocean, though, in a surfer's memorial, so I go there every year around his birthday. He died when I was eleven; it's been nine years this month.

Even if you didn't spread the ashes/ can't get near the place where you did, you can bring flowers to places that remind you of them. Personally, I would like my children to leave sweet quotes/ wrapped chocolate scattered around the library when I go. My dad loved the beach, so I go to water to remember him. In WWII airforce men died or went missing so frequently that the ritual of remembrance was to open a man's locker and drink his liquor when he was pronounced missing. The key lies in the ritual of a thing, perhaps. There are so many things you can do...

I hope this day won't be too sad for you guys-- but I know that even a good day remembering is also a really bittersweet one. :hug: I think the best thing is to get all of that emotion out when you need to, and try and get to the point where the memories are more sweet than bitter.


@Xrabbite: Is it a pretty bracelet? Yes, it counts. My Gramma makes me bracelets for my birthday. If she can do it at 70, there is no statute of limitations on craft projects. :yes:

*nods* Visiting places that remind you is a good thing to do. I just live too far away. Close to 700 miles. *hugs* I do well for the most part.

So does my grandma and she's 84 -- and the stuff she does is amazing. Go, grandma! :vicky:

Mothers' Day has already been and gone for us here in the UK, but it is an occasion I really like.
My situation is very uncomplicated; I have one Mama, and my grandmothers are all dead, so she's the only one I have to focus on. This year I embroidered some birds on a cushion for her (she much prefers hand-made presents), and she seemed to really like it.
It's an even more pertinent holiday now my brothers and I are grown up; it's one of the few times a year when we all make sure we're all "home" (at my parents' house) at the same time, which hardly ever happens as we all live so far away now.
Mainly it's just a time when my mum can really count on having all her kids together again, and that's a really big deal for her.

They really are the best:D
I haven't spent a mothers day with my mom in almost three years. Even though the ones I did spend with her were never their best...
Andandand....
Thank you:glomp:
I hope she likes them too:P
Good luck with whatever you plan on getting your aunt