To ask what you do for Mothers Day?

[hattie43]

It's coming around again and I'm curious to know how others approach the day , do you even mark the occasion or go all out .
For me I buy a small gift , flowers , chocolates and take out for a meal . Anyone else .

Nothing. I have teens. My eldest always gives me a card and small gift.
When they were little I'd take them out for a meal but my youngest won't do that these days.

I send a card to my mum and DP sends one to his, then we usually spend the day out with our toddler, beach or country park type thing. We live 200 miles away from family. I get a card and small gift 'from' toddler and DP pays for a takeaway in the evening. We do the same for him on Father's day.

This year DH will be on a work trip, DD1 will be at Scout camp and DD2 has a rugby tournament.

So ill be mum taxi as usual like most weekends 😆

(Weve sort of agreed will we do something the weekend after. Probably I'll be presented with a half cooked breakfast of some sort then a gift and a card from each DD. I might get to chose dinner as well)

Nothing I’m a single parent and my kids aren’t old enough to do anything so just a normal day for us

I ignore it.

I am usually to be found volunteering at DC's rugby club as that Sunday is usually the day of our home festival. It's a pretty awesome day tbf and lots of fun.

We send cards to our own mothers and sometimes a little token gift, like a some chocolates or something we know they like or need.
We tend to have a lazy morning with DP and the kids cooking me breakfast (usually pancakes!) and then maybe a walk and then I'll cook a special Sunday roast with all the trimmings!

I nag dh to send a card to his mum.

Kids might buy me a bar of chocolate. Cards are more hit and miss. Not sure they've ever bought one but now they're of an age where they don't make them at school/beavers so I don't expect to get one.
My mum died a decade ago.
We largely ignore it.

Dh thinks father's day is totally pointless too.

Nothing. I have adult children who send me a " good" card...nothing sentimental or mawkish. I award points for the best one....we've done that for over 10 years.
I basically ignore the day.

Normally a card or flowers

It was always a thing for my mum and MIL So used to do a big meal and flowers for them. Now they are dead I've told my kids I only want a card from them. I don't like a big fuss

Send my mum a card, that's it.

Mother and MIL long dead. My adult DDs and their partners usually treat me to lunch in a posh restaurant, and give cards, flowers and chocs.
When they were toddlers the nanny used to help them make cards, and when a little older would take them shopping to choose a small gift for me. I really appreciated her efforts as DH died when they were babies and I would have had nothing otherwise.

My mum is really demanding so it’s not about me but about her. She’ll click her fingers and expect us to come running. I hope that my children will never feel the pressure I do. Might make the traditional Simnel Cake.

The pedant (and dick) in me: we don’t celebrate Mother’s Day in the UK. That’s in May and is celebrated throughout most of the Western World. However we do celebrate Mothering Sunday on the fourth Sunday in Lent, also known as Laetare (literally “rejoice”) Sunday or Refreshment Sunday. This is more commonly (and I suppose secularly) known as Mother’s Day.

Going to order personalised poem from here rhymeisgreen.com
Did this once for MIL and it was just perfect.
I'm sure my mom will be delighted too

I usually ship my mum down to London first class on the train as a treat and take her out for the day to do something followed by fancy dinner. In previous years we’ve been to the zoo, for a guided tour of Highgate Cemetery, to Madam Tussauds, on an open top bus and boat tour of London, on the Call the Midwife tour at Chatham, to see Matilda on stage, and been on the Royal Mail underground train followed by the Transport Museum. She has a blast, and I get to experience London as a tourist rather than just the city I live in. We both like the ritual of it.

Kids usually buy me a small gift and card and we go out for a late lunch, nothing fancy Bella Italia or something else child friendly, we take my Mum and Dad with us and that’s my Mums gift.
We visit MIL but she usually goes out with SIL so doesn’t come for lunch, we buy her a nice gift, perfume or flowers and wine.

I take flowers to my mum's grave.I usually get cards from my DC.