Happy 💐 Mother's day. Feeling the blues today - Grown up sons moved away - haven't even had a sniff of a Happy mother's day text. Have prompted and hinted the last couple years but this year I'm torn between accepting they've forgotten or sending them a reminder of what day it is. Long for those memories when they'd make paper flowers and cards. Should I send them polite reminder? Thoughts please. Thanks
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Borgonzola · 19/03/2023 16:37
@Nimbostratus100 that's unhelpful. It does mean something to some of us.
Nimbostratus100 · 19/03/2023 16:31
its a nothing day, just invented by greeting card manufacturers to create pressure, guilt, expectations and waste - ignore it
FrownedUpon · 19/03/2023 16:40
Unhelpful. Also, it isn’t actually made up by greetings card companies. Mothering Sunday has long been an event in the Christian calendar & is important to some people.
Nimbostratus100 · 19/03/2023 16:31
its a nothing day, just invented by greeting card manufacturers to create pressure, guilt, expectations and waste - ignore it
Nimbostratus100 · 19/03/2023 16:53
Mothering Sunday in the Christian calendar refers to servants visiting their Mother Church, nothing to do with their birth mothers, this whole thing about making it about birth mothers is ENTIRELY a commercial invention.
Just see it for what it is- an invention by men in committee rooms to make money by inventing a reason to pressurise people into hopes and expectations and disappointment and waste.
It means nothing
FrownedUpon · 19/03/2023 16:40
Unhelpful. Also, it isn’t actually made up by greetings card companies. Mothering Sunday has long been an event in the Christian calendar & is important to some people.
Nimbostratus100 · 19/03/2023 16:31
its a nothing day, just invented by greeting card manufacturers to create pressure, guilt, expectations and waste - ignore it
DevantMaJardin · 19/03/2023 16:57
By the Victorian period it was for servants to visit their mothers, nothing to do with church or greetings cards. For example it's detailed in Lark Rise to Candleford.
Nothing like MN for people presenting garbage as "facts".
Nimbostratus100 · 19/03/2023 16:53
Mothering Sunday in the Christian calendar refers to servants visiting their Mother Church, nothing to do with their birth mothers, this whole thing about making it about birth mothers is ENTIRELY a commercial invention.
Just see it for what it is- an invention by men in committee rooms to make money by inventing a reason to pressurise people into hopes and expectations and disappointment and waste.
It means nothing
FrownedUpon · 19/03/2023 16:40
Unhelpful. Also, it isn’t actually made up by greetings card companies. Mothering Sunday has long been an event in the Christian calendar & is important to some people.
Nimbostratus100 · 19/03/2023 16:31
its a nothing day, just invented by greeting card manufacturers to create pressure, guilt, expectations and waste - ignore it
neverendinglauaundry · 19/03/2023 17:18
Ah, happy mother's Day 💐!
Yes I think you should send them a text saying something like; I GAVE BIRTH TO YOU! WORSHIP ME AS THE MATRIARCHAL GODDESS THAT I AM OR SUFFER MY WRATH!
Wackymama1 · 19/03/2023 15:57
Happy 💐 Mother's day. Feeling the blues today - Grown up sons moved away - haven't even had a sniff of a Happy mother's day text. Have prompted and hinted the last couple years but this year I'm torn between accepting they've forgotten or sending them a reminder of what day it is. Long for those memories when they'd make paper flowers and cards. Should I send them polite reminder? Thoughts please. Thanks
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Wackymama1 · 19/03/2023 17:39
Thankyou for ( most) of the messages. 🥰 Some have made me chuckle. 🤣 I decided to send them a message, with a simple "what day is it" with a humorous ( for them) response of "Sunday." Their 20 something brotherly humour was to message me late knowing I would think they had forgotten - when they actually remembered all along just wanted me to panic 😂 and cuss them under my breath. Boys.
Wackymama1 · 19/03/2023 17:39
Thankyou for ( most) of the messages. 🥰 Some have made me chuckle. 🤣 I decided to send them a message, with a simple "what day is it" with a humorous ( for them) response of "Sunday." Their 20 something brotherly humour was to message me late knowing I would think they had forgotten - when they actually remembered all along just wanted me to panic 😂 and cuss them under my breath. Boys.
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