March 2013 Moms
SPIJaimie
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First Mother's Day
SPIJaimie
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What are everyone's plans for their first Mother's Day? Most likely cooking for my MIL and mom at some point over the weekend. The selfish part of me would like to have the day all to myself but I'm so grateful that both of them are still alive to cook for.
Have you discussed gifts for Mother's Day and later Father's Day? Obviously our LOs cannot choose anything yet but I have something in mind that I want. Can I buy it for myself since DH (who is good at so many things) sucks at gift gifting! Ha.
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Re: First Mother's Day
I bought my "big gift", a pearl mother's necklace. We're going out to my favorite restaurant as a family and DH will take my girls shopping to pick out flowers and probably some chocolate covered strawberries the night before.
As for DH, similar idea. We'll go out to a restaurant of his choice. DH isn't big on "meaningful gifts" (neither am I, they just turn into clutter most of the time), so I'll pick out a big item on his wishlist and an ugly tie (found a bacon tie on amazon, lol).
I did get a cute Mother's Day gift last year. Our church had all the kids put handprints on oven pads. Unfortunately, they're cheap ones, so not very practical, but very cute nonetheless.
Father's Day I plan on taking DD to one of those paint your own ceramic shops and get her handprint on a coffee cup and then paint I love daddy on it. DH is a big coffee drinker so it's meaningful and useful.
I attempted to do flower pots a few weeks ago and DS freaked out when I put the paint on his hand. Maybe your LO will not be so ticklish but it was a mess at our house!
Finger painting type things don't go well for DS1 either...i hear, "mess, mess."
DS1 -6/25/11
DS2 -3/23/13
Missed MC D&C 8/26/14
DD - 8/26/15
LO#4 due 5/30/17
Lol we'll see what happens.
This year I would still like to watch my cousin dance but I don't know that I want to spend my first "real" Mother's Day away from my immediate family watching a dance recital in a city an hour away from home. However, my DH is kind of encouraging me to go. He says we can make a day of it. We can all go to the city and, while I'm watching the recital, he'll hang out with the kids somewhere. He mentioned wanting to get me to the city that day anyways so I'm wondering what he has up his sleeve.
As for Father's Day, I think we may go fishing or mini golfing. I like to actually do things together for the day. We don't do big presents for days like that.
BFP #1 09/02/11 M/C 09/12/11 8w6days
BFP #2 07/18/12 Baby S born on his EDD 03/23/13
SS - age 12...SD - age 8...DS - 13 mos.
No major plans for Mother's Day- just going to church and maybe out to dinner that night. Either way, will be spending it as a family. I know the Saturday before, DH is planning on taking DS to visit his mother so she can meet him. Other than that, no major plans.