to start a thread for all the pissed off Mother's Day influx?

[PaulAnkaTheDog]

Just that really. It could get quite comical really: Who got the worst gift?! It could also stop the usual situation of umpteen threads bitching about the lack of diamonds flowers etc.

One thread to rule them all...

DH is visiting a friend in prison so I will be looking after 3 kids from 4mo to 4.5y. We will be having some quality time with the remote.

But it does mean I get to answer the naice mummies' asking what i did for mothers day with "nothing, DH went to prison."

(Situation for friend is actually pretty bleak, so I shall be remembering how lucky I am that I get to spend time with my kids though maybe not when they are all screaming at once )

To be fair Marzipants I'd pay to say that as a genuine response. The looks on their faces!

Happy Mother's Day

Anyone cleaning up that amount of vomit at this time of night wins by a mile. It's reminiscent of the time I was stood at the bottom of the stairs while dd 2 was coming down. And threw up in spectacular fashion covering my hair, face, feet, stairs and both walls in partially digested stir fry. It's a measure of how disgusting it was that it was a year before I made another stir fry.

I just want a lie in and a coffee in peace tomorrow.

Saw lots of (presumably) DH in town today, accompanied by little ones and carrying big hand tied bouquets and the like, so some are well prepared. Feeling ABSFM right now as mine all with their father on a contact visit and he is taking them and OW out to lunch tomorrow. I'm on my own all day and won't see them until the evening. I am stressing about whether people who see thrm all out at lunch tomorrow will think she is their mother. It has been assumed before and she didn"t point out she wasn't. All feels really odd! I am very envious of MissHathaway's Star Wars session on the sofa! I know could be much worse though and will get myself out of this pit of self pity and for an uplifting walk tomorrow!

MrsHathaway a fellow pneumonia recoverer here, I shall be spending the day in bed, listening to DH do gardening with the chiliden.
Fir those if you who think spending Mothers Day in bed sounds lovely, it really isn't, it's bloody boring. I've read nearly every thread on mumsnet in the past 5 weeks I'm running out of entertainment!

Oh god MrsHathaway I'm sorry I didn't spot the fact you are recovering from pneumonia when I said my sister died from it.

I'm sorry. If I had, I wouldn't have posted.

Get well soon and you too Wuthering

Oh MrsHathaway, happy mothers' day?

Paul, no Nandos or Pizza Hut nearby. DP thinks the venue might be doing pizza. I hope he's right. If not, I he's going to leave the gig early and queue up at a local place that doesn't take bookings.

Worst case scenario I bring them home and order takeaway or bring them to the shopping centre foodhall.

Ffs it looks as if some are already using this thread for a little stealth boast about how understated and perfect their Mothers' Day is.

I thought I'd spend it watching my dad die. I'm uncomfortably arranged over three plastic chairs at his bedside in the hospital listening to him struggle with pneumonia on top of several other debilitating illnesses.
He's on the Liverpool Care Pathway and is occasionally coming out with a lucid word amongst his coughing and ramblings.

Luckily my DD (23) is also here and she just bleakly wished me a Happy Mother's Day from her blanket on the floor behind me.

So I wish the same to you lot of you.

I don't get the angst to be honest. I'm a single parent and my family never think of me on Mother's Day. My dd made me a card in school and I will take my mum for a meal and hey her flowers

Using my stately homes name for reasons which will soon be obvious.

Dd and I will have a lovely day together.

However I won't be seeing my mum even though she lives nearby. The past year or so has been shit re our relationship due to her being more obvious than ever that my sis can do no wrong (not true) and me no right. Have barely spoken for months, she ruined dd's birthday and Christmas. I'm still mired in fog and so sent flowers. I know they arrived OK due to email confirmation and a comment a mutual acquaintance made. But not even a text to say thank you. Getting closer to deciding NC may be way to go. Am struggling not to be upset for dd's sake as I know she will have made plans and put a lot of thought into giving me a lovely day tomorrow. Just sick if this crap!

to all going through similar or who will be missing their children or beloved mothers who have since passed/are ill.

Mind if I join you? I'm not a mother yet by most people's definition (31 weeks PG with my first child) but I am spending the weekend with my parents to mark the day and I just know that it's going to be a complete fucking disaster like it was last year. DF (father not fiancé) will expect DM and I to clean up the entire house so DF's mother can come for dinner, even though he's had all fucking week to do it because he's currently unemployed; DF won't like it when we take a few minutes to sit down and open DM's cards and present, nor if we don't clean something exactly how he wants it done, cue temper tantrums; God forbid I should take a rest from running around after his requests despite being DISABLED and SEVEN MONTHS PREGNANT; and the whole thing will end in DF screaming and swearing at DM, screaming and swearing at me for defending DM, then playing happy families when grandmother arrives - at least while she's in earshot.

And the baby means I can't even have any fucking alcohol. So I'll be whining to you lot on here as my outlet. Sorry

Here is some as a thank you, or for my fellow incubators.

to all who are having a difficult time.

I'm just rubbernecking because it's not US Mother's Day for ages.

My grandmother had a stroke today (Saturday), so I'm far from being in the mood to celebrate Mother's Day, I'll be counting the hours till I can see her. To top it off I'm at work overnight, so will spend Sunday overtired, stressed and grumpy.

Despite this I am looking forward to dd handing over her (badly hidden) card

CuttedUpPear and Runwayqueen

My 5 day old premature baby is in scbu and I feel awful being at home and my heart aches but am torn as have a 4yr dd who is excited as she has done me a card. It's been awful week and my mil is expecting today great things, it might be the first time in 20 years I tell her to do one- via DH anyway!

I'm getting something DD made for me. Don't know what it is but I know I will love it because it's from her.

One week anniversary of miscarriage here. Just been woken up to sound of DS having a tantrum and hearing DH doing his usual parenting style of getting cross that a 2 year old isn't responding to reasoned logic, i.e getting huffy with the whole world and me especially.
Taking my broken heart back under the duvet. Happy Mothering Sunday.

I'm claiming refuge in this thread to avoid all twee Facebook crap.

Yesterday: DH's lie in day. Kept children away from him until 0930am (they were up at 6am)

Today: my lie in day, and Mothers Day as an additional motivator. Children wake up at 615am, DH invites the pair of them into our bed where they wake me up. Youngest demands breakfast, he takes them downstairs and provides breakfast. Then lets them scamper back upstairs to show me how much they love me....

Gahhhh!

for you all, some of you are having truly awful times.

I am a lone parent and Ds has just presented me with his card from school. I am very, very touched. Im taking us both out for breakfast and then to buy myself flowers and what ever else takes my fancy. Ds is getting star monsters! My own mums not talking to me so I've left her card and present on the kitchen bench (bloody jo Malone perfume - wish I had bought her the token garage flowers now!)

I hope everyone has as lovely a day as possible!

Oh God I was dreading coming on here this morning with all the Mum Moaning about lack of gifts and breakfast in bed blah blah blah.

All of my dc are out of the house this morning - sleepovers with friends and boyfriends. Sports. They are teens. I don't care! They are happy and healthy.

At the moment I am Mumsnetting with a coffee and some delicious bread and smoked salmon. Later after dc3's footie, I will eat a huge roast and imbibe copious amounts of expensive wine with or without my fam...

Oh and so sorry for everyone having a rough time. Mannery I'm really sorry to hear that my love

Gin and Mannery

This is always shot down on Mumsnet as we have to be excrutiatingly PC and go against what we actually witness and experience in real life.

My dh was awful about mornings and barking orders at the kids. He's changed massively in recent years, he finally grew up. Once the kids have early morning gymnastics comps or footie matches it helps to get their arses out of bed and realise it's not fair on the family if they are marry. But I remember the bad old days of me tip toe-ing around being quiet when he was lying in and him crashing about angrily when he had to get up and the kids running into me as he was so impatient. It really can change!

Ps I mean we have to be ridiculously PC about 'men and women' on Mumsnet, you are not allowed to stereotype!

Probably not getting anything.
DH is asleep in spare room for 3rd night in a row as DS (13 months) has had a sore throat and cold for the past three days so has been in bed with me.
It was lovely to wake up to a wonderful snot covered shoulder, face, neck and a cheeky smile from DS this morning though.
It's made my day