What do you want for mothers day?

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Whether an actual gift or the gift of peace and quiet lol
I'm not one for gifts. I'm happy with a bunch of flowers.
A friend of mine expects and would be quite arsey about not getting what she wants. Her dc are of an age where her dh has to buy. She's got a huge list.
I then think I'm boring for just enjoying a nice bunch of flowers or something along with a lie in

This year I have ordered a box of cupcakes as my friend makes them. But tbh it's mainly just for an after dinner treat for all of us.

Do you have any special requests or wishes

This reminds me of a time, probably 40 years ago where my very bookish dad asked for “A day of peace” for his birthday. DM rushed Stuyvesant bookshops trying to find it, with no luck. She asked DDad who it was by, when she realised he just wa ted us all (I’m one of 4) to be quiet.

One day where Not only do I not have to dress/feed the kids but also a day off from the mental load of picking out clothes, choosing said food and just organising everybody in general

Oh and a silk pillowcase 😂

I would like a nice roast dinner cooked for me by my dd who's living here at the moment...preferably with a pudding!

A homemade card from my 5yo and 2yo I'd all I ever ask for. I'll make us all a nice lamb dinner and hopefully we will have a nice walk together

I would like a bloody lie in. A proper one where DH intercepts DS takes him downstairs and feeds him, instead of one where I have to listen to performance bloody shushing for half an hour....Can you tell how my lie in this weekend went? I’m not bitter 🙂

I would also like a day where I don’t have to decide what to eat, where to go for a walk, what colour underpants the cat needs!

Some goddamn unbroken sleep.

I would like a day of quiet, no wittering, moaning or whining. Just that.

My mum.
She died 4 weeks ago and life will never be the same again.

@Couchbettato oh yes

I’d trade my silk pillowcase for ds to sleep for than an hour at a time

We are ordering a takeaway curry

I just want the house to be clean and empty of husband and children

I don't need or wantpresents

Absolutely nothing. I’m a mother everyday- I don’t buy into the dreadful commercialisation of it all.

I would like a delicious roast dinner that someone else has cooked. I doubt that’s going to happen though so it’ll more likely be a takeout. I would then like the kitchen to return to the level of cleanliness it was before rather than being halfheartedly cleaned up and left to be finished off by me!

Thank you @BikeRunSki

@trappedsincesundaymorn and @Ironess sorry for your losses. It’s shit isn’t it?

I would settle for not being in work on a 12 hour shift tbh but I was off-

A home made card
Some flowers from the garden
A hot coffee and something nice for breakfast
No involvement with chores for the day

For my baby to arrive by then. 40+3 today.

My kids (11 and 13) back with me.

My wish would be to be able to visit my mum - it's now a year since I saw her and then to see my two adult sons and their families for a proper visit, not just a doorstep visit.

@SleepingStandingUp

A meal, alone, in peace, with no sharing.

I once asked for Christmas for ‘gone with the wind’ on dvd and 4 hours alone to watch it. It remained in its cellophane wrapper for 6 years 🙁

I might ask DH to take the kids out to the beach and that would be 3+ hrs of quiet for me. Or maybe I'll go to The Range on my own for a browse as a treat! Get a takeaway Starbucks and drink it in the car, alone.....heaven. I'll make sure there's either a takeaway or easy m&s food. DH would cook if I asked but he's so exhausted and burnt out with work on don't want that on him last thing on a Sunday when he tends to be increasing stress levels again.

My dc are mostly grown. They are going to do me a lovely home baked afternoon tea, after a late breakfast in bed. Looking forward to it.

A friend of mine expects and would be quite arsey about not getting what she wants. Her dc are of an age where her dh has to buy. She's got a huge list

I don't understand people who are like this. Is she the same at Christmas and Birthdays?

If there's things she wants, why doesn't she just buy them when she wants them instead of having 'a huge list' that she expects her DH to buy for her. If he's buying off a list of things he's told to buy in fear of her 'getting arsey' then they're not gifts from him or DC anyway as he's not put any thought into it. Or does she not have access to her own money, which is then a bigger issue.

I would like to see my mum and mil but accept that is not going to happen. My dh will be making me a roast dinner and I intend to play with my kids, watch a film and maybe have an afternoon nap as am pregnant. I would like maternity pyjamas and some maternity clothes for the summer, homemade cards and tulips. I am more like your friend than you op and yes I would like the day to be acknowledged and get gifts too.

For DS to sleep an hour later than normal . Homemade card. Cuddles. Family lunch for which I might put on a dress, instead of my lockdown wardrobe of leggings and t-shirt.

I think DH has booked an afternoon tea delivery, but it’s really not necessary!

A full nights sleep!