We need your ideas on what's good for Mother's Day please

My best mothers Day present was a day white water rafting on the Findhorn in the NE of Scotland

Over the years I have had Rage against the Mahine CD
Walking Poles, GPS system, fitnes monitors.

Quite clearly DH does the buying and not the sons!!

I always get a bag of Thorntons truffles as well

yay !!!!!

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i am easily pleased too

mug of tea and hot toast - lovely soak in the bath alone

out for family lunch - read my book in afternoon and watch a film with DH once children are asleep

living the dream!

i would be quite happy for all of us to go to moors valley with the kids and the dog and have a great day there then stop off on the wy home for a pub lunch.

in truth ill get what ever dcs make at school for me and dp asking if i remembered to send his mum a card.

A whole Sunday without having to referee a single argument or find a lost jumper/pair of shoes/reading book/entire uniform for Monday - that would be bliss, and is never going to happen [sigh].

Yeah but why towers? Are you going to fix it for each and every mnetter?

That would rock

A proper lie-in with no whispering or checking whether I'm awake yet.

Wake up to good coffee, clear passage to bathroom for bath. Or shower. I'm not precious.

Scrambled eggs with english muffins and mushrooms.

Not being asked any questions at all.

A handmade card from DS.

But I guess this would necessitate a minimum of soft restraints and gagging so hey ho...

I always give my mother a piece of exotic fruit - started as a joke one year with a coconut, but she loved it, so fruit it is.

Hand made cards or drawings.

I would much rather my children put some effort into making or drawing something for me that I can treasure, than buying tat I don't need.

A lie in. And a child-free shower!

Breakfast in made supervised by DH but 'made' by 3 dd's. Then time to myself to get up & showered etc at my own pace, then taken out for surprise day out with fab picnic lunch. I'd be happy with this but if they really wanted to top it off they could cook for me in the evening while I chill with some wine

Well it would certainly take her by surprise, Ronaldinhio - and it can't be worse than my DD's Christmas Day breakfast of pink smarties - lots of pink smarties .

I mean just ketchup
not with egg sausage toast
just ketchup

you are annoyingly sensible, should I just give in and hand her a bowl and teaspoon?

(but it does seem to me that actually, once tried, ketchup for breakfast might not seem like such a great idea, but maybe that is from the viewpoint of someone with one ketchup-hating DC and another who can take or leave it )

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I send my lovely mother a card and club together with siblings for a large bouquet of flowers, but she is insistent that the focus of mothers day should be mothers whose DC still live at home, so encourages us to go out and do something nice for me, rather than meeting up with her.

I like breakfast in bed, but hate spa days and beauty treatments in general. I like booking lunch for me, DH and the DC so that I don't have to clean the kitchen after eating DH's burnt attempt at a roast. Have 4 DC under 7, so ignoring the washing, ironing cleaning and cooking for one day is a super fabby treat too.

for me
paper white daffs
manicure
brunch/ lunch out somewhere nice

for my mum:
rose from David Austin with her name
lunch somewhere nice
a good book

for MIL
DVD of Cranford
sunday lunch at our house cooked by dh

Ronaldinhio have you ever tried just agreeing to ketchup to breakfast, just for the hell of it?

I hate breakfast in bed, it's boring + uncomfortable!
I want a card from dd1 like the one she did last year in nursery with 'fill in the blanks' comments as it was quite obvious she had helped them write it(i like wine, nobhobs(sic) + cbeebies)
Then breakfast all together with DH doing all the kitchen faffy bit, he takes them to the park + somewhere for lunch while I go for a run, have a bath, buy a paper and read it in a quiet, tidy empty house.

They can come back for tea though, i'll be missing them by then!

Coffee & croissants in bed at 7am, followed by a couple of hours peaceful reading whilst dh & the dc clean & tidy the kids' bedrooms & the playroom, so I don't have to do it later.

'Stately home' type day out for us + lovely MIL. Can't wait till the dc are old enough to take me to white knuckle theme parks, mind you .

Home by late afternoon, to cook a nice Sunday dinner for all of us - dh to occupy dc/ply MIL with booze whilst I potter in kitchen.

Bottle of wine in front of telly, with lift into work in the morning from dh.

I'd adore a day in Galgorm Spa
It's just about heaven on earth but I understand that it's unlikely to ever materialise

other than that

a kiss from dd1 (sub 3) that she doesn't wipe off and tell me as she's doing so

dd2 not trying to carry the dog around by the head

not having the "tomato ketchup isn't breakast" conversation

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