Mother's Day GTKY

MrsPteranodon

What's everyone doing for Mother's Day? Do you get a present? Do you ask for time alone? What do you do for your mom/MIL?

thehotheartline

We don't do presents for anything but birthdays and Christmas, so no to that one. My entire family gets together at one of the grandparents houses, in-laws and everything, and has a big celebration. Lots of food and games. Basically, it is ANOTHER family reunion...we may or may not have 5-10 a year...

ForeverEverAfter

We normally only do gifts for Christmas/birthday, but as its our first baby, we are doing gifts for Mother's Day and Father's Day this year. Unfortunately DH is doing an overnight Sat/Sun, so I wont see him til 10pm. He had plans until he saw his work schedule, so maybe he'll make me breakfast and give me his gift on Monday instead. 

For our Moms we used to do something little (pick flowers or drop off something yummy) but now that we live far away we just call. My mom still has 2 kids at home (3 and 6) so they make little crafts at school/preschool for her, takes the pressure off the older kids lol. I think my SIL that lives near my MIL takes her kids over to visit and they bring little handmade cards.

Into+the+Kitty

I still don't know what we're doing yet, but hopefully it is more than just unpacking our house. If it's nice out, I'd love to go on a hike, but we don't have a baby carrier that would really be appropriate ATM, so it would probably be to the lake or something.

J actually just ordered my new sewing machine as my gift. He normally surprises me, but this year I had my new machine as a request. I'm totally stoked, and keep stalking the shipping information, willing the delivery date to change from Monday to Saturday. 

I usually just give my mom a call, and some years a card or small gift. I appreciate my mom a lot, and regularly tell her as much, but IMO Mothers Day and Fathers Day are for the parents who are actively parenting more so than the empty nesters.

Ilovebeingamom

I'm doing ladies night on Saturday night. All the moms are going to dinner and then a movie. I'm so excited. I feel like that's my Mother's Day gift. I'm getting, or rather making, my mom a s'mores gift basket. She loves roasting marshmallows but always uses those shishkabob sticks so I got her some better ones and I will get her crackers, chocolate and marshmallows and put it in a cute basket.

SidraJedi

If all goes well, Morning visit from in-laws, Brunch with my aunt and maternal grandparents, and an Evening visit from my sister and mom.

No presents.

I don't really want any time alone. I often think I do but AP and BF sort of make that difficult and deep down I like doing everything with her right now.

I used to buy my mom gifts and then one year - in my late teens - I wrote her a poem about how thankful I was to her for being my mom. She said that it was the best gift ever and no other was necessary. I haven't bought her a mother's day gift since. I only buy her Christmas and birthday gifts (she hates her birthday b/c she has a staggering age complex) if I know or happen to find something I know she really wants. I always call her on special occasions.DH has never bought any gifts for his parents and I usually remind him to call his mother. I always call my Grammy.

sarenu1

Daycare will probably have my daughter make a card for me.  But I'm not expecting anything from my husband.

It will probably be pretty boring.  I may request grocery shopping by myself.  And maybe some time to plant tomatoes.

KikiSmash12

As this is my first Mother's Day, I'm not sure what to expect. I told SO he didn't have to break the bank or make a huge deal out of it. Just a card and a chocolate bar would make me happy. My birthday is on the 17th, so SO gets hit kind of hard in just a week. If my birthday wasn't so close I might expect a little more giftwise. 

My mom and MIL will get cards. I'm thinking of doing some kind of footprint craft for each of them, but I don't really have any plans yet so it will definitely be belated. That's how my family works though, so I'm not stressed. 

stoneycakes

I have requested to sleep in.  DS hasn't been nursing when he wakes up lately, so I'm pretty psyched about being able to sleep in as long as I want.

CLLDLL

We usually do small gifts - think "Best Mom" coffee mug type things - and go to dinner as a family on Fri. or Sat. This year though I got a Mother's Ring with my boys' names and birthstones that was a Birthday/Mother's Day gift since it cost so much. DH got a new snowblower during end of the season sales - his request, not my idea!

We always do dinner or lunch with MIL and the opposite meal with my mother. We'll get them each a card and/or flowers.

TJ1979

This is my first legit Mother's Day. I'm not sure what MH has planned, but I hope it involves sleeping in and brunch. I bought cards for my mom, MIL, and SMIL and put footprint butterflies from LO on each card. And I'll call my mom for sure. I'll see her next weekend so I might get her a little necklace or bracelet, maybe with her grand babies birthstones or something.

Aurora_Borealis

We have houseguests this weekend, so we'll be having brunch with our friends before they head home.

I will probably get a gift and card from DH/DD. Last year was my first Mother's Day and DH got me a gift card to a hip shoe store in our neighborhood and sent me shopping (w/o DD).

DH & I are individually responsible for gifts and cards for our moms/other family members. I have no idea what he is getting his mom - but she got me a card and some fancy chocolates. I sent my mom a card and a gift certificate to a kitchen store in her town since she keeps saying she wants a new Dutch oven but I have no idea what size, finish, etc she wants. My grandmother and my great aunt (we are very close) got cards filled with new photos of DD.

jesstellina

We'll go to church in the morning as usual, and then I have to work from 2-10.   So we won't be doing much special that day, but we did go out to a nice dinner last night and called it the Mother's Day dinner. When DH got me my sewing machine and table right before Easter he said it was my early Mother's Day present. Then yesterday he gave me a necklace charm that he made with DD's little thumbprint on clay.   He made more, so we'll give those to our moms and grandmas. I also got my mom a cute decorative teapot and gave it to her last weekend when we visited.