What's everyone's plans if any for Mother's Day next Sunday?

[Lovebeingamummy2]

Just as the title says really.

If you have any plans for next Sunday which is Mothering Sunday what are they, I'm just being noisy and lacking in inspiration.

What ever your plans hope everyone has a lovely time.

For all of you going out to lunch on Mother's Day - please remember the army of mothers that is making that possible for you!

And to my fellow Mother's Day working mothers - I salute you! 🍾

I have scheduled a little cry cos I miss my mummy.

We're going out for lunch with MIL on the Saturday as she is not around on Sunday. Sunday we're taking the kids swimming then going to a local attraction that DS really wants to go to.

Working. Probably have my Mum for lunch Saturday and take her out somewhere in the afternoon to avoid her constantly talking about people who've upset her. To be honest I hate Mothers Day. I used to prepare a meal for my Mum and MIL on two different days as my Mum had a bee in her bonnet over my MIL and wouldn't be about her if I did it for both of them together. Now, we just have my Mum who literally talks at you every second, getting irate about things.

Hopefully DH will prepare evening meal when I get in, which is what he normally does on a Sunday anyway.

@Rocknrollstar

even this year? The first year without your mum? (Sorry to hear about your mum xx). Is there any point to him?? I'm glad you have your DD & your Sister to spend the day with 🌷😘

We are doing presents / cards / flowers then a trawl of garden centres , first one we'll have breakfast and a good look around . Then onto the second posher one for a good look around and coffee and cake .
Then back home for afternoon tea courtesy of whatever I pick up in m & s .

@theotherfossilsister

awww bless. How old is your baby? How creative is your DH?

if he's not a natural maybe drop some heavy hints like hand & foot prints!!

if he's a natural then it'll be a lovely keep sake!

Seeing my mum in her nursing home (she won't know what day it is but the nurses will care if i don't). Dp will go and see his mum. I will send a card to my MIL (who also won't know what day it is but FIL will care that I sent it). I would go and see her but it is possible that one of her children might go and I don't want to intrude.

I might get some sort of contact from ds but I genuinely don't care. I feel like I have been stressing about Mother's day for most of my life and being a mother just means you have to pretend to enjoy it while mostly scrambling round balancing the feelings of the generation above.

As a widow we don’t do Mother’s Day as the awkwardness of them remembering their dad was meant to be here and taking them for cards and gifts is all too much for everyone. Instead we have children’s day and they will be the ones that gets the gifts and cards because they deserve it more.

@Ladyof2024

(((HUG)))

🌷

I lost my Dad 14 years ago now, and it does get a little bit easier, but is still hard. I go to a place he would love, have a walk & a coffee and just think about him. (I do every day anyway, but on FD in a more deliberate way).

msybe you could start a tradition for your Mum xx

@Itsnotallaboutyoulikeyouthink that's brought a tear to my eye. Happy children's day to your wonderful children.
Hopefully you'll get a moment for you too x

My plans, it's my second mothers day as a Mummy and I want to spend it doing something my daughter and I (possibly dad tagging on too) quite fortunate I don't have a sulky mum or mother in law so I don't have to balance others on mother's day, took almost a decade to be a mummy so I get to celebrate us.

My first one. Lie in, breakfast, then going to a nearby country park with baby in the pram.

MIL and GMIL coming over at about 4-5ish after the wider family gathering that I turned down the invite to. My husband doesn't drive, so I'd be driving over to hear that my baby is "bratty" and getting scared looks from the men for breastfeeding, all whilst sober.

I'm determined not to have traditions for MD and just go with the flow, because the ILs have slightly culty ritual attendance at MD and FD, as if none of the couples have families of their own.

@Itsnotallaboutyoulikeyouthink

wgat a lively Mummy you are ❤️

Im so sorry about your DH & their Dad, life can be very cruel.

would I be right to assume they're late primary age?

maybe it could become Mother's & children's day? They could make you a card & you could all choose things to do/eat.

You're their wonderful Mum & you deserve your bit of Mothers Day too & they will benefit from learning you deserve it too.

i know it's easy to 'not bother' especially when your children have been through so much, but it really does benefit everyone to acknowledge/show thought for everyone else. Plus they might feel more 'part of it' if the school/other kids talk about it.

just a thought.

Hope you have a nice day with them xx

I'll be hoasting a roast dinner for my MIL with a big beaming smile on my face. She's the only mother in my immediate family. It's alright for some, isn't it? I'm going to try to treat it like it's a normal day until it's all over and then I can hide away and sulk like I do every year. Father's Day hits my DH in the same way, except he can compartmentalise better than I can.

Church with DDs in the morning and then going out for a pub lunch in the afternoon.

Go for a run, husband and kids making afternoon tea. Rarely go out as too expensive and usually rubbish. Maybe a bunch of daffs.

As usual we'll host the ladies of the family, Granny, Aunty and Stepmum (each widowed/single) but this year is extra special as we'll be telling them I'm almost 16 weeks pregnant. They've no idea as it's been years in the making and unmentioned m/c's (hence the wait) I can't wait.

I’ve booked a restaurant (took bull by horns) and will have a nice meal and cocktail

My fiancé will be on his stag do! Me and the little one are going to stay with my parents for the weekend so that should be nice

Ummmm... no plans of yet. One child lives away and the other has been abroad fur a month and I don't think she realises. When she furs she'll make me a card (she is a fantastic an illustrator). We might have a takeaway or something.

My ex missed his parenting time this week due to one of our kids having chicken pox,though he wasn't contagious anymore & mostly healed, he's entitled to make up his time so he's decided to take the full weekend next weekend, though he has said he will bring them back early sunday ☹️ but i do think they will end up home saturday as i don't think his gf will want our kids there with her own for mother's day 💐 I have bought a few trinkets for my boys to give me & im ordering myself a merch hoodie ive wanted for a while & my son picked the colour for me 😁.

@sunlover1123 I'm sorry to hear that you feel like that are you sure that's the case?

Can you not treat yourself to something you love like a pamper day and and a nice takeaway maybe.

I’m going to take DS to hockey whilst DH sees MIL. DH and DS are making lunch. I don’t care what, so long as I don’t have to decide. There will be a card and a present.

I’m being taken out for lunch. Looking forward to the halt of relentless ads and emails reminding me that I don’t have a mother anymore to get presents for. Actually shed a few tears at an M&S ad this week online which advertised some cakes for Mothers Day, my mum would have loved them. The last food we shared together was a box of M&S cakes.