My low key (aka normal) mother's day will include...

I allowed DH to lie in as he worked yesterday and I am away for the weekend next week so he will get no lie ins and I will get 2 (🎉🎉🎉)

Brought DS down at 6.15 and found a gorgeous card and gift bag containing sudoku book, cream egg, strawberry laces and pink gin in a tin. All of my favourite things.

Now sat with a coffee watching Wreck it Ralph for the 50 millionth time while DS clambers all over me and I truly couldn't be happier!

The days what you make it. I will have a lovely day, DH bought me flowers a couple of days ago, that are beautiful and bright, my DS2 has bought me a gift that he seems very excited about, perhaps DS1 will give me a gift too, but if not, no worries, just happy to have both of my adult sons home all day. DH will cook a lovely dinner for us all. Wishing all mums a lovely day

I've just woken up and DS 10 has presented me with a lovely bunch of flowers and a card. I have been told I can't get up so I suspect a cup of tea and slice of toast are on their way. I'll then get ready to go to DS footy match, DH is the manager so we will get there early to put the goals up and set the pitch up!
Then we are going somewhere that's a surprise and then having dinner out at DS fave restaurant later 🤣
I know I am very lucky.

Lovely thread indeed.

@botheritsgone it surely is a day for counting our blessings.

This is the first Mothers Day that DS age 16 will be working in his restaurant job. He worked last night & came in at 12.50, today's shift will be 12 - 4 then 5 - end so I'll barely see him. But will have a nice day pottering at home, & being a mum to DDog too, thinking about my own lovely DM who we lost 20 years ago.

I already saw my flowers and a cake. DS 3 couldn’t wait to tell me yesterday when he got back from the supermarket. The cake he chose is hilariously exactly what you’d expect a toddler to choose; flat and covered with multicoloured sweets! Lovely. 😍

I'm awake before everyone else as predicted so enjoying some peace and a cup of coffee.

My day started at 5am to the sound of lots of whispered shushing from the kids room.

I had cards, presents, a decorated lounge and breakfast in bed. All before 6.30. They’re now watching tv and I’ve come back to bed. Love them!

Im a single parent and they have done amazingly well apart from the early start. It’s the first year my eldest is allowed to use the kettle so a cup of tea in bed feels like a treat.

My parents are coming for lunch later and my eldest is going to try cooking a roast by herself for the first time with a bit of help from my dad with the hot bits!

I'm cuddling the kids (5 and 2) on the sofa while they have TV and I have read and mumsnet. DH is having a lie in, but he's on nights tonight and won't be back in bed for over 24 hrs so no hard feelings 😄
2 year old presented me with a nursery made card on Friday evening and 5 year old has told me excitedly about the card he made at school that DH has put away for a surprise.
5 year old also told me that DH took him to Waitrose on Friday after school while I was working so I'm anticipating chocs.
Both my mum and MIL are away this weekend so an afternoon out with sister and our kids will be fun.

Single mom here who's ex wouldn't do anything,he wouldn't be allowed anyway,OW would not allow it 🙄,he had our boys Thursday night so I know there is nothing so I ordered myself my favourite chocolates in the shopping & my 5 year old picked me out a new coffee mug (I love mugs) & he made me a paper bunch of flowers & a few bits in school so that's my lot,I'm very grateful though. We are up already but lying on the bed while 2 year jumps on it, so we will decamp downstairs soon & I'll have a coffee in my new mug & we will chill 😀

Unfortunately dd2 has a gymnastics competition this morning (8am start and it’s 1.5 hours away 😫) so not only was there no lie in - i lost the lovely hour I could have had! Dd1 and dh are going with her, I’m staying home with toddler ds (staying still skills aren’t really there yet) then off to my mums for roast dinner and may play pandemic if the boy isn’t being a toerag!

DH is abroad on a lads weekend. I'm 36w pregnant at home with the 2yo so I will get nothing today but hopefully a cuddle or two from the too-young-to-know-the-day toddler.. Nursery keyworker gave me a card they'd made on Friday though. I might take us out for lunch.

DH lost his DM a few months ago and so this one is very lowkey. I'm currently in bed looking at fantasy properties on Rightmove and having a cup of tea, everyone else is asleep and it's lovely.

DD gave me some flowers yesterday and she's out at her weekend job later. DH is taking DS out later which means I get the house to myself all afternoon :) Will take myself out for a walk at some point.

This really is my kind of mothers day.

Low key here, breakfast in bed with
some lovely gifts and cards. Going to visit mother in law and my mum quickly to give them their cards and presents. Then back home as DH is cooking a lovely Sunday roast and we will play board games and watch movies with kids.

I'm having a lovely cuddle in bed with DD (3). She and DH brought me a coffee in bed (as DH does every day so I'm generally very lucky ❤️) and a lovely card. She was distraught on Friday that the present she made me at nursery wasn't ready to come home.
We're going to pop to lidl (so DD can push her own trolley) and pick up some lunch bits and pop round to DMIL with flowers for lunch that neither of us need to cook, and have a lovely afternoon visiting.
My own DM lives hours away, so I had flowers delivered yesterday which she loved.
All in all, a lovely day planned 😊

I have Covid so I’m lying here feeling sorry for myself while everyone else sleeps. My DDs have made me cards at school and have got me a present which they will give me when they wake up. Apart from the Covid, I’m happy 🙂

DH made me a cup of tea in bed and DDs presented me with cards they'd made at school/nursery and gave me a cuddle and a kiss. We're going out for Sunday lunch at the pub and I'll probably potter round the garden a bit. It will be a good day.

I couldn’t sleep owing to headache from some kind of sinus/cold-y type thing. So I’ve been down with DS and DD has sorted herself out, they’re happily gaming while I’m back in bed and DH is dozing. I’m kicking myself for not having made a cuppa while I was down there.

Is it too mean to wake DH and demand one?

Cards will emerge at some point. We don’t tend to do Mothers/Father’s Day presents. DH and I are too lazy by mutual agreement 😆

DH will cook a roast later, hopefully I’ll be feeling better by then.

Lovely thread.

I'm blearily getting ready to take youngest DS to a high-stakes soccer match (I slept badly last night). Trying to decide if I will squeeze in a run or not - I probably will.

Older DS & DD have said they'll come to the match too so I'll have to start extracting them from bed soon

Kids are usually pretty good at cards + gift but I specifically asked them not to this year - we've all had a tough time recently in court with awful ex, money is tight & I really don't want them spending theirs on 'stuff'. I've asked for a squabble-free, helpful day - we'll see!

Happy Mother's Day everyone! 💐

Simples pleasures for this mum too! DSs went to Tesco yesterday with DH and bought some flowers (with their own pocket money, first time ever😊), today I expect I’ll get card from each and they’ve promised to make me breakfast and lunch (I usually do these) and as many cups of tea as I can manage! If they can do this without bickering it will be the best Mother’s Day gift. DH cooking dinner and I’ll still have laundry and some other low level chores to do, plus I’ll take DSs to see my mum at some point in the day.

A hand-made card and a hand-made fabric loveheart, done at preschool, plus a hand-picked and dried daisy from the park.
Breakfast is DH’s pancakes, but that’s every Sunday so not a MD treat.

We don’t do fuss in our house.
When the children are older I might request peace & quiet for a few hours.

Up first as usual! I've fed the dogs and had my breakfast listening to an Agatha Christie audiobook. Last year at this time I was in excruciating pain and fearful of the future. I'm now a full-time and (probably) permanent wheelchair user, but the pain levels are very manageable. I'm so grateful for the kindness, adaptability and resilience of my children over the last year that I feel I should be treating them, not the other way round. Having said that, I know there is gift hidden upstairs and that there is cake and ice cream planned for later. If I can squeeze in a trip to the car wash (the car is filthy), the day will be perfect!

I have also received a crocodile made out of those fuse beads 😁 so feeling pretty lucky so far! I might have made too much of a fuss as he's gone off to make me more now...

Brilliant 😂😂😂

That's a lovely post & tribute to your DC. You sound like a great family.

Enjoy your day 💐

I've had coffee and will be setting off to the gym shortly (perfect Sunday morning for me) 😊

Then the weekly food shop, ironing and wine this afternoon/evening which will do me!

I saw my mum yesterday for shopping and coffee but that had been planned weeks in advance. We really don't bother about Mother's/Father's Day here.