To not understand going out for lunch on Mothering Sunday?

[Sparklingbrook]

I couldn't think of anything worse that sitting eating lunch in a packed restaurant/pub with lots of other people doing the same just because it's Mothers Day. And paying over the odds for it as well. Treat? I think not. My own Mum would hate it too.

What am I missing?

Well if the cap fits...

You're lucky though, there would be a mutiny (led by DH) if I didn't do a roast on a Sunday. The DC can't even be swayed with the offer of takeaway or Nandos/McDonalds. My urban DC will demand that they will only eat a roast and if we take them out on a Sunday we have to take them to a bloody Gastropub!

This MS, my Dsis has booked a lovely place in Essex near to my parents, which got rave reviews on mn I might add, and we will all drive out there for Dinner. I'm looking forward to it.

There is nooo way I am spending every Sunday in doing a roast dinner. If DH and the DCs want one they know where the kitchen is.

If we go out On Mothers a Day we tend to go to one of two favourite restaurants.
They don't do set menus or gimmicky things but are always packed whenever you go because the food is good.
I don't like eating at really quiet places it's a weird atmosphere and I am always more aware of how noisy my DC are.
Any food I don't have to prep, cook, and clear up after pleases me.

This is the first Mother's Day since DS1 has left home and he has arranged and booked a restaurant for me and the rest of the family to meet on Sunday. I don't care how busy it is I'm really looking forward to it. It's a lovely feeling when your child is grown up and kind enough to do something like that.

On Mothers a day on Mothers Day

We love eating out. If you pick a decent pub/restaurant it won't be a set menu

I take my mum out for lunch on Mother's Day because she likes it, and that's pretty much the point.

I wonder how many Mothers are going out for lunch but really they don't want to and don't like to say anything because it's all been arranhed by well meaning offspring?

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I am being taken out by dd and dh. I don't mind because they want to do it for me, but the only table time dh could get was 12pm, which considering the clocks changing is like 11am. I had to point out to dh that I wouldnt be able to fit breakfast in bed as well! His face fell. He's very sweet, but not so practical.

Would it be too horrible of me to say to him actually please may I have breakfast in bed and then go for a nice walk with a picnic?
That would be my idea of lovely.

Restaurants are not going to peoples houses to round them up, also they have had a real knock in trade since credit crunch, so what if someone wants to take mum out for lunch!

People sat there, are there of their own free willl...

its not what i am doing but so what...

I love any meal that I have not had to cook. I am all for going out to eat at anytime. Unfortunately, we can only afford to do so very occassionally.

Our DSs are off the Mother's Day hook because DH and I will be lying on a Jamaican beach sipping cocktails in a flagrant stealth boasty fashion.

Not necessarily of their own free will Born if they are being made to go by their well meaning children.

Do it OYBBK-sounds lovely.

We do love a nice meal out but don't like the crowds. So we'll be going out with mil on Tuesday.

In fact when I took my mother out once, it was a great buzzy atmos where we lived and loads of people made a fuss of her out and about and were chatting she had a great time.

Yes sparking but still the whole family is not being rounded up at gun point and marched to nearest chef and brewer....although the mother may be

I guess that taking one's mum out for a meal on Mothers' Day started because it meant she got a break from doing the cooking. This hasn't ever really applied to me, because dh is very good at doing his share (and more) of the cooking, and happily offers to cook on Mothers' Day - and as the boys have got older, he's involved them too.

True Born. at Chef and Brewer. We have a Hungry Horse, or a Flaming Grill.

We are going out on Sunday and I booked it! I love our Sundays just the five of us (my mum lives 200 miles away) - our family meal is a big part of that, roasts in winter barbecues in summer. As a SAHM I do all of the food shopping and the cooking (if DH barbecues, I still buy all the food and do salads etc.) These are all things I love doing but this is the first year that I feel the children are all lot enough that a meal out with no shopping/clearning up etc sounds like a lovely idea.

Of course we eat out and spend time together throughout the year but I like the sense of occasion and am very much looking forward to it all. (especially since I will have a hangover on Sunday morning so DH will do the breakfast and we are going out for late lunch/early supper!)

I dont go out wiht my kids,Mothers Day to me is a childfree Day.Also when my mam was alive i used to bring her for her dinner and now she is no longer here i have some lovely memories.

My eldest, DD1, offered to take me/us out on MD, and i gently declined the offer. Really these days i don't enjoy the conveyer belt food/customer experience of most eateries. MD and Vallentines are the worst days for getting decent service IME. (Plus i have a BF 8 week old, and am not ready to brave a meal out!)

So DD's coming over for dinner instead (cooked by me) and a huge slice of choc. cake (baked by DD3) and i'm going to enjoy simply having everyone together for the afternoon. That does me fine

I'm taking my mum out for lunch. She would tell me in no uncertain terms if she didn't like it/want to go to a certain place.

In fact the posh lunch n' cocktails that I initially fancied at a hotel in Chester has been overruled in favour of the enormous sausage n' fat chips platter at the local gastropub. I shall drink lots of real ale instead (as it's also my mothers' day) and do my sophisticated cocktail thing another day... :o