Just because DH is a SAHD...

[LoopDeLoops]

... does not mean he 'gets' Mothering Sunday instead of me, right? PIL disagree...

Ha ha ... no. That's really odd. Yanbu

My reply "yeah right, whatever..."

YANBU. Insulting to you and your DH.

My MIL does not do Fathers' Day, as it is a new fangled invention. She would be for Mothers' Day to be ignored/actually all about churches. She also has very strong feelings about parental roles. She would probably say something like this were DH a SAHD - but he wouldn't be coming out of it any better than I.

Change the subject, move on...

Unless it was said completely in jest
then it was a cheap dig by Grandmama , smile nicely while quietly muttering FU! and forget about it.

Unless you get father's day? But if you get a day each anyway it makes sense for you to have mothers day and he fathers?

So if both of your worked full time should the children make hand made cards and breakfast in bed for their childminders/nursery staff?

Is grandma a bit senile?

YANBU, she's being strange.

Just as an aside, can we stop the nonsense about the 'origins of mothering sunday' being to do with servants visiting their mother church? It isn't.

The Christian origins of Mothering Sunday are to do with the Church of England taking over a Catholic festival in honour of the Mother of Christ. Prior to that, I should imagine that the Catholics may well have taken over a pagan festival in honour of a mother goddess, who knows?

(Sorry, that was unnecessarily rudely put!)

LRD I think you should start a new thread explaining the origins of the day. There seems to be a lot of people who think that Hallmark invented it rather than hijacked it

Or I should stop being a pedant, I know.

Does Hallmark even exist in the UK? I've no idea.

It used to but come think of it I haven't seen one of there shops for a long time so maybe not now.

Don't stop being a pedant please

Hallmark does exist in the UK - they are based in a beautiful building in Bradford.

I stand corrected