Can I ask you to all stop whining about Mother' Day cards for aunties/nans/dogs/binmen?

[BupcakesandCunting]

Please?

Family units these days can be very different from the "normal" set-up. Grans can be replacement mums, so can aunts, so can neighbours in fact (my mum's elderly neighbour looks after my mum like her own child) so why shouldn't there be cards available for these other women?

I send one to DSM from DS. I've never had a mother/daughter relationship with her but she is fantastic as a gran to my son. She never had children of her own and it stings for her a bit. I feel that she should get some recognition for being a lovely grandMOTHER so she gets a flowery card and a bunch of daffs from DS. She loves it.

Stop moaning you miserable toads.

ITA? That is not on the endorsed acronym list.

binwomen maybe?

I'll only get a card if the dog can be arsed.
Now that would be a niche card market.....

anyway, you're right.

it's Mothering Sunday, and is a celebration of the church, therefore anyone who is a servant of god can be celebrated

My mum bought one for my grandma, and didn't notice the wording- it was Happy Mothers Day, instead of Mothering Sunday.

This is a problem in grandmas world, so my mum gave it to me, to give back to her, and my grandma will get the card I got for my mum, which is correctly worded because I am good

I've sent one to DM from DS. I'd love to have had a granny around who I felt close to so I think it's a relationship worth celebrating and nurturing.

it's nigh on impossible to get a card with mothering Sunday on.
drives me batty.

I'd get a nice card with a blank inside and write my own message.
This thread has reminded me that I have forgotten to send my own Gran a card (I usually do). Blast.

My DD once sent me one that said ' you have been like a mother to me' on it

Due to trendy lefty 70's upbringing my mum would only accept a homemade effort. I have gladly carried on this thoughtful tightarsed tradition with my kids. They also always do one for the Nans too. They love it well they open an envelope and a ton of glitter and beads falls out

Did have a strange American acquaintance whose mother used to send a valentine to their own dog? That is well unreasonable.

Last year DH got me a card on behalf of DS, 1, and it said 'to my mummy from your gorgeous little girl.'

FFS

And it was written on the front of the card. I pointed this out to DH on mother's day and he crossed out girl with a biro and wrote boy instead.

YANBU.
I hope the dog has remembered to get me one this year!

I insist on prefer a homemade card from each of my children too. for a few years they all did them for the grandmas, and their great grandma, but then it got ridiculous because the aunties (my sisters) started expecting them. With 5 children I was spending too long making cards. so I stopped that tradition.

I still expect a card from each of them though! dh has asked me to make myself scarce tomorrow.

Pmsl out loud as usual suspects!!!!!!!

I'm reading thread aloud to dog, pausing meaningfully at choice bits.
Dog's pretending to be sleeping.
I still hope he'll be shamed into some Mother's day action.

we've sold out of 'from the dog' at my large supermarket. (still have plenty from the cat though ) And of all the cards we have, only 3 say Mothering Sunday. But TBH I wasn't aware this was a problem until this year, when several customers have asked me for it.

usualsuspect you're not my mum, are you?

YANBU. I think it's lovely, OP, that you send one from your DS to your DSM. I bet she really appreciates it. :)

My DM insists it's Mothering Sunday so every year I scour the high street for a nice, not tacky card which is so hard to find.

Then last year I had an epiphany and bought all 4 of the semi decent cards I saw. I thought I was being clever but wonder if I'm actually tempting fate?

"I'll only get a card if the dog can be arsed.
Now that would be a niche card market....."

Clintons have a card "Happy Mothers' Day... from the cat"!

It may once upon a time have been "mothering Sunday" but us atheists have decided to join in, to and to me it's "mother's day (and the card companies seem to agree with me) and anyone who sends a card to anyone other than their mother is someone with too much time on their hands who needs to get out more or kick their husband into touch to buy his own f'ing mother a card.. You can send cutesy granny /dog cards as long as you don't mind being thought of as the sort of person who buys cutesy granny/ dog cards because they have nothing else to do with their lives.

I have also had a few glasses of wine this evening, and my mum is dead so no-one is getting a card from me this year. I don't believe in proxy mothers. The one I had was lovely and is missed.

"My DD once sent me one that said ' you have been like a mother to me' on it"