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Tell me about your “fantastic” Mother’s Day morning so far….(lighthearted)

207 replies

Tinacollada · 27/03/2022 09:30

DC (8) gave me a lovely hand made card and a tacky photo frame (but very cute thought)

DC (13) didn’t bother to say happy Mother’s Day, reluctantly made me a cup of tea that tastes like cats piss, no card, grumbled and went back to bed.

DC (8) has now brought me some out of date yoghurt as a “treat”

What a sense of occasion!

What have yours done for you…?

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Crackercrazy · 27/03/2022 11:57

@Baggiepussy

I’ve put a washing out, they’re all still sleeping, aaaa being the mother of teenagers. To be fair they have gave me my greatest gift……peace 😂😂
Priceless!
7eleven · 27/03/2022 11:57

A card from one adult child. Nothing from 2nd adult child because she’s indifferent to me. Planned meal with 3rd adult child cancelled due to Covid. Go me Smile

Gonnagetgoing · 27/03/2022 12:01

@Afolnerd - my DB at 16 was arrested when out in a pub a few years back, mistaken identity. Police rang my mum to tell her and I recall her crying on the phone “but it’s Mother’s Day!”.

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yestheyarealmine · 27/03/2022 12:03

Mine are all at work/still sleeping , however received the best present ever yesterday , my dd found the jewellery she thought had been lost for the last couple of months , that was given to her after her gran died , was being nice and explained, was ok ,wasnt her fault , but was secretly heartbroken it was gone , after it had been in family so long , so am asolutely thrilled and would be happy with just that .

CoodleMoodle · 27/03/2022 12:04

DD(8) presented me with several lovely homemade cards and pictures. Then she got upset about something else, and stormed off because she was upset she'd "ruined Mother's Day". She came back eventually.

DS(3) thrust a sweet card he'd made at preschool at me, and then had two tantrums about nothing. He did plant a flower in a pot at preschool as well, but he gave that to me on Thursday.

Bless them.

janedani · 27/03/2022 12:05

I got 3 hand made cards (6, 9, 12) oldest at secondary school bought me a cookie from the school canteen for my pressie and put a £1 in the card to reimburse me for using his dinner money! Had a family walk and hoping to get in the garden this afternoon before cooking tea for my mum later.

User76745333 · 27/03/2022 12:05

My teens have yet to surface but I’ve spoken to my own mum. I had a late night last night so I’m lazing on the sofa and the sun has just come out so all is good.

HPandTheNeverEndingBedtime · 27/03/2022 12:05

My Dd loves to give gifts so despite her dad not helping her this year
(I've been single since day 1 but he normally buys me a card and box of chocolate from her) 12 year old Dd has been talking about Mothers day and trying to find out what I'd like for a couple of weeks.
DD went to the supermarket yesterday and bought me lots of my favourite treats and put it in the drawstring bag she made in textiles with a card. Then this morning she rushed to the corner shop to buy a surprise and is currently in the kitchen on videocall with her best friend and they are baking me (and BF mum) something whilst chatting away.

It's very thoughtful but I am very concerned of the amount of potential mess being created.

I feel sorry for DDs dad's new partner, she seems lovely and DD likes her, she recently had her first baby and he had completely forgotten it was mother's day and had assumed he would be having Dd this weekend (it's written into our court order that each parent gets their relevant day). I hope he got her something but I bet he didn't. I had to question him on valentines day too when he said he would have Dd and ask whether he had anything planned with her. Not my monkey, not my circus and all that but it's frustrating to see he's just as clueless as when we were together 13 yrs ago and hasnt learnt anything.

Silkierabbit · 27/03/2022 12:05

I am in my first week of chemotherapy for breast cancer.

DD 16 did say the other day she knew it was Mother's Day today as she had seen it in a shop but added not to get my hopes up Grin

DS is on the sofa. DD got up asked for my opinions on 3 different outfits she was trying on then chose final one and went out to see her boyfriend.

DH did say he bought me a card but has yet to get the kids to sign it and he will shortly be cooking Sunday lunch. He did bring me a cup of tea and hot cross bun in bed so he is the only one making an effort here.

gettingolderandgrumpy · 27/03/2022 12:05

My request was that dc didn’t wake so early which to be fair I was awake before him . And that I can go for a nice run on my own which I did so I guess I’m winning .
It was said that they would make a Sunday brunch which I didn’t believe and I’m making now while adult dc is still in bed and dh is getting ready , young dc is in his room .
Adult dc gave me flowers yesterday price still left on . They are lovely but overpriced £20 Shock.I’m the kind of mum that says don’t spend money on me but admit it’s nice . I had 2 homemade cards off young dc .

supersunflowers · 27/03/2022 12:07

My dh got a photo card printed. Which would have been nice if he hasn't put the biggest picture as one where I look slightly like some kind of overdosed drug addict with half shut eyes would maybe forgive him but I'd already pointed this out to him the last time he put it on a photo card clearly it's a dh favourite photo.

Moving on from that, he bought me this hideous gift that is in the shape of a bear and has plastic flowers stuck all over it and when my dc pulled it out the box the plastic flowers remained in the (plastic) box exposing some sort of polystyrene bear shape beneath. I am actually finding it absolutely hilarious and tbf dh asked if I would like him to get something else. I honestly cba and don't take it all too seriously. I knew 100% I was getting anything that was left available and came in less than 12 hours on Amazon prime anyway.

Dh surprised face when the cheap plastic bear fell apart made the pain of receiving no nice gifts totally worth it. The fact he thought it wasn't absolute junk is more shocking than receiving no tangible gifts tbh Grin

stripeyflowers · 27/03/2022 12:07

DH left a card and box of Ferrero Rocher. Really made me smile as:-

a) forgot it's Mother's Day as I am not have a mother and don't have a mother or mother-in law.

b) they were from only little girl, my cat. Smile.

AmberGer · 27/03/2022 12:09

Got up at 4.30a.m. started work at 6a.m. spoke to dc on phone won't see them until I finish tonight at 6p.m.
Just on my lunch break.
Haven't even opened a card yet.

PollyPutTheKettleOnKettleOn · 27/03/2022 12:16

Not a mum but visiting mum. We sat up chatting til the early hours and I'm letting her sleep in (also allowing for clock change).

I have an awful feeling that when I take a test later I might be giving her covid for mothers day Confused

missingeu · 27/03/2022 12:16

Big fat zeo.

LadyLothbrook · 27/03/2022 12:19

Husband still in bed and left me with a messy kitchen that he offered to do last night. I suppose the thought was there. However kids exceeded expectations with my 10 yo making tea and toast and 7 made me lots...I mean LOTS of lovely pictures and crafts including pegs which she says are castanets since she's written 'music' on each one.

FrenchFancie · 27/03/2022 12:20

I had a lovely start to the morning, nice presents and cold toast scraped with a bit of butter, but then went out to exercise my horse, who spooked a cyclist and dumped me in the hedge. I’m now sat with an ice pack and trying to decide if it needs a&e or not…

SusanSHelit · 27/03/2022 12:23

Dp got up with ds(8) at whatever ungodly time he decided to surface, poked his head in around 8am asking what time to send ds up with cards and presents. I said can I have until around 10 please. This was greatly appreciated as I've just done 29 hours in work (two 14.5 hour shifts on a busy and understaffed ward) in two days and am properly knackered

So about 10am, ds came up with some cold toast and a cup of coffee in my favourite mug, a card he made in school, a card from the shop with leopards on (we've been watching a documentary about big cats together so I thought that was very sweet). A box of chocolates that he knows I like (and like to share with him), and a little statue of an elephant with a baby elephant on its back holding each others trunks in a sort of heart shape. Plus a lego race car he designed and made. I may or may not have been a bit misty eyed at this point.

Dp then went to his mums, only a ten minute drive away, with ds for an hour or so while I sat in bed drinking my coffee and trying to convince myself and my very sore feet to get up.

I have only in the last few minutes wandered downstairs and am currently sipping another coffee. Will get a shower soon and then we might go for a walk around the meadow and do some butterfly spotting.

So far it's been a really genuinely lovely day Grin

RJnomore1 · 27/03/2022 12:24

My 17 year old has just presented me with flowers, chocolates and Prosecco and after a desperate search, a card. She was baffled why she slept so late until I told her about the clocks 😁 she’s been stuck in with covid all week so it looks like dh was sent to m n s with instructions.

Dd1 is trying to get out of having phoned to say she was coming down today when she was pissed on Friday night.

It’s a nice day and dd2 and I will watch a film later, her and her dad are on dinner duty.

I’m trying to decide whether the drunk teenager or the poo-ey smaller children would be most fun 🤢 bless you

AgnesPerdita · 27/03/2022 12:32

My DD came through and dive bombed me at 06.30 shouting 'Um Um Up!' (She has speech issues). She then presented me with a butterfly card thing that she made at nursery, some chocolates and mug. She insisted on sitting on me while watching Frozen and we have just returned from a toddler trampoline Park session.

DH is absolutely not getting a look in today as its all about 'Um'. But he is keeping me supplied with decent tea which is nice.

Pixiedust1234 · 27/03/2022 12:32

Happy Mothers Day to you all Flowers

Everybody is still asleep.
The cat bit me. She never bites. Maybe it was a sign of affection??

TeddyTrucks · 27/03/2022 12:33

I'm on hospital zoned out on meds so I have at least had a lie-in! DDs 11 and 14 gave me lovely cards yesterday before I went in and have both been WhatsApping me all morning and sending me photos and videos of the dog Smile

RockinHorseShit · 27/03/2022 12:34

DD19, Chocolates & bubble bars thrown at me midday, including a bubble bar she must now by now that I hateConfused. Then disappears back to her pit

All I actually wanted was an apology for her really shitty behaviour of telling me "you're just pathetic & weak" in response to my crying quietly in the kitchen, after she'd nastily refused to go the the shop, when I was too bloody I'll to go myself. I went as I had no choice & had a funny turn on the way back that meant I had to sit on curb for 15 minutes or fall down. That resulted in her ignoring me up until just now. Gifts & cards from her just feel empty & fake right now tbh

confusedofengland · 27/03/2022 12:40

DH & the DSes made me dinner last night & had set the table ready for when I got in from working all day. But DS2 had a ferocious meltdown (ASC/ADHD) that ended up with all 5 of us in tears.

Breakfast in bed this morning, after I'd been awake for hours! Then went to see my mum. Ds2 & DS3 have been fighting & arguing all morning & won't listen when asked to stop, as usual. Just about to go & meet Ds1 & DH from their football match so that we're not stuck in. Then hopefully a daffodil walk this afternoon.

Also it is DH's first Mother's Day without his lovely mum, who died last summer. So I gave him a nice photo of her in a frame & a wooden plaque with some sappy words for his office in the shed.

Ilovethecinema · 27/03/2022 12:40

I’ve not had a mention of Mother’s Day or been given a single thing. Music blasting, the cats meowing. The dog is sitting on my knee, at least she appreciates me Grin