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.

I send ex mil a mothers day card because we are close. Probably closer than my own mum and I and I am glad that I am able to get a card suitable for her.
Incidentally Clinton cards had a much larger than average mothering Sunday cards.

2rebecca, sorry to hear about your mother, but I think your attitude is horrible. Some people have to have 'proxy mothers' as they don't have the real thing. To accuse them of having no life is pretty harsh.

AllPastYears if he turns up with one of these we shall have words...
I do have some standards, you know!

So you want me to stop whining. Why don't you ask me on my thread?
I only said it was a little ott.Or are there other threads about it? Obviously there are situations when its relevant but in general it feels just another way of making money.
I am probably a bit sad too as my mum is no longer with us.