Mothers Day 3 weeks away

[justasking111]

Eek that's crept up on me . Anyone more organised this year?

There's fuck all to organise though....

Write a card if you must.

Maybe make her dinner.... Hardly needs 3 weeks of planning...

Shit is Halloween still at the end of October??? Is it happening this year??
I need to get organised!!

It's actually a religious thing... mothering Sunday is nothing to do with Hallmark™

You have to book a florist? Are you expecting wedding level multiple bouquets and centrepieces? This is crazy.

Well, she's wrong... Mothering Sunday has been around since the 1500s... Can't blame the Americans this time, didn't exist until 200 years after the tradition came about...

And why bother with anything.. birthdays.. Christmas... Easter...

I have taken note that it is 3 weeks away... and will still likely order the card the day before on Amazon next day and hope it arrives in time before I see my mum

Oops!

What's wrong with a card and a bunch of daffs! Why is everything now so over the top.

It's all for the "likes" IMO.

@Justkeepswimmingswimming apologies if I have misunderstood, but just to say I'm sorry for your loss

@justasking111 If only there's family to phone offer venues to. There's disabled access to consider, a lot of places won't take a party this size. There's transport to arrange for some. Who's picking up who, car sharing.
Why is this all on you?

Gosh I'm probably going to be ridiculed here but I booked a table for mothers day during the xmas break.

I also booked both kids' birthday parties for this year, Christmas panto tickets for 2024 and a couple of other weekend events dotted around the year.

I just like planning!

Organised with what? Moonpig will no doubt remind me closer to the time and I'll send a card and maybe some chocolates from them, since we'll be on holiday the week preceding. Job done.

@wubwubwub But Mothering Sunday is entirely different to Mother's Day.

Mothering Sunday was historically a Sunday during lent to return from work away to your home town and 'Mother Church' and as a side effect likely a rare chance to see your Mother.

Mother's Day in a non-religious celebration of your Mother was indeed imported by Canadian and American soldiers.

@DappledThings no obviously not. Just a nice bunch of flowers from my favourite florist.

What a miserable bunch you all are on here. Utterly joyless. Competitive bah humbugging and reverse snobbism.

Nah, not joyless. It's just news to me that having a favourite florist is at all a thing and that flowers need to be booked in advance for one bunch of them. That is a very odd concept to me.

Mother's Day (the international version, celebrated on the second weekend in May) was a Nazi invention. It came alongside the different medals awarded to mothers depending on how many children they had (10 or more was the goal). Obviously the history has long been forgotten and now it is merely a nice way of saying thank you.

I was in Portugal many years back and there, the mother got celebrated alongside her young child if it was their birthday. I always thought that was a nice touch to recognise the effort that goes into raising children.

Mothering Sunday is different and had to do with visiting your home church.

Personally, I don't celebrate either. Thank me spontaneously or not at all.

@DappledThings I don't think we would get on in that case. I can't see what's odd about liking flowers from a particular florist. Ordering them in advance is just because lots of other people have the same opinion as me so they often don't have any delivery slots on Mother's Day. Nothing odd about that. But I'm sure you'll find something to feel offended about.

Thank you. X

Organized how ?
Ill.get my mum some flowers and probably go for lunch.

@boomingaround But your DH that's organising all this isn't your child. Surely him helping young DC make a card or pick out some flowers from the supermarket for you would mean more than him just dropping some cash at a particular florist?

But the Mothers Day we have in UK is Mothering Sunday and not the same as the American mothers Day....

I think Boom wants what she wants, not what DC want. I doubt she'd be impressed with the two cuddly unicorns from the charity shop and the unicorn play set I got last year ☺️