To really want a fuss for my first mothers day.

[Picnic2223]

Hi,
This year will be my first mothers day abd I really want a bit of a fuss.

I'm not sure my DH will pull out any stops as his mum only gets a card if I buy it.

Aibu to remind him about it or maybe ask a friend to have a word.

I'm not talking about a bit present just a nice family day with the baby.

Oh I know it's a money spinner but folk still like getting in to the spirit.

One year we were really skint so Dh went all out and gave me a box of 12 mixed crispy creme, in bed for breakfast. Myself, Dh and DC sat in bed scoffing them. It was great! It didn't cost much but it was thoughtful.

A dozen Krispy Kreme? You can't have been that skint. Skint would be a bag of 5 jam doughnuts and a bag of 5 custard doughnuts from Sainsbury's for £1.80!

It was a specail occasion

Special*

I'm also of the opinion that appreciation is for every day, not just the latest festival of waste.

if you want to go out to eat on any of these waste-days you'll get crowds, high prices and poor service. Go on, be a devil, do it on another day!

My first child was born in the U.S., which has a different Mother's Day. When he was 4 days old the washing machine broke, it was a stressful time, I remember running into the laundrette cramming it all in, trying to get back for his next feed - DH had him. The women in there were staring at me, one of them asked "are you a mom?" I remember wondering if it was the leaking milk, or posset on my shoulder, whether I'd leaked, or the desperate look in my eyes that gave it away. I nodded. They said "Happy Mother's Day".

Sorry rambling and irrelevant - but I hope you have a great day OP, this year and all the other ones!

my 10 week old will struggle to make me a card, he is good at kisses though

This made me laugh. Have a lovely slobbery 10 week old kiss for me, OP. Feel free to post pictures as well (broody).

I think you should tell him what you'd like. Much as people complain about these things, I think it is nice to have communal celebrations of important things, like parenthood.

'him'= your DH, not the 10 week old.

George he is too gorgeous for mumsnet I'm afraid

It's my first Mother's Day this year and I expect my DP will do something nice, I lost my mum 10 years ago so it's always been quite sad since then. For what it's worth my mum kept the little card that came with the flowers my dad got her, from me, on her first Mother's Day when I was a baby over 30 years ago, so it's not a new thing for a partner to mark the occasion when the DC are babies still.