To NOT want DH to spend loads on me on Mother's Day on behalf of DS?

[Iklboo]

DS is 16 months old. I've told DH I just want a nice box of choccies & a card from the cheap card shop. We're going out for lunch and I'm getting breakfast in bed.
I don't honestly feel the need to spend loads of money when I KNOW my son loves me, that DH loves me and I love them.

God what you have just described sounds lovely.

I certainly won't get anything big and thank god is all I can say.

I completely agree. Only problem is that although i can purseude my dh that i don't need anything my mother seems to think that i do and so each year buys something for dh to give to kids to give to me!!! Very annoying and complicated and does put dh's nose out of joint!!

Not really the same thing but I found a text when flicking thru DHs phone from his mum saying "I have bought Pecka a card from you for mothers day and one from the kids"

Not said anything but when I get them Im going to say ohhhhh I really appreciate you taking the time to go and choose me a card, I really appreciate it and watch him squirm!

I'm looking forward to it too. But DH keeps saying "but are you sure that's all you want? Don't you want a CD/DVD?"
I think the chocs, breakfast in bed and a lovely family lunch out somewhere is PLENTY

I agree, my dd's normally make me a card which I much prefer. This year they are taking me to London for the day.

i think its sweet u dont want much but if ya not paying it your self(like i have to),then enjoy being spoiled and have a wonderful day

Well....it's joint money so I kind of am paying for it meself
I suppose I can't think of anything I'd really want!

lol aw i dont think it matters if u want anything.I have just been to my local shop and they have lovely mothers day cup been hinting at my kids all week i need a new one (wonder if i'll get it hehehe).

i generally go to somewhere like next the week before and pick something i like (usually a bag) and then describe it in great detail to dh who gets it for me

works for us

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last year on Mother's day dh announced he was going to his mother's for the day.
I was a bit miffed & said that I had hoped that we could go somewhere together with ds.
'Why?'he asks
'Because it's Mother's day' I say
...blank look from dh...then...'Oh'....'had completely forgotten you were a Mother'...he he heeee

aw bless loo,i hope he made it up too u lol

I get nothing!

I tell my dh not to make ds get me anything at all, mother's day means nothing to him or me; ds appreciates me (sometimes!) in the most amazing, genuine, childlike way and that's more precious to me than anything he might be 'told' to get.

Last night as I gave him a kiss at bedtime he looked up at me adoringly and said "You know, mum, I like your face"

I just don't think being instructed that today is mothers' day could make me feel as good as I did when he said that.......

I just don't bother with it.

I'm not fussed if i do or i dont get something. Being with family is what is important to me.

What will peeve me, is if DP goes out on the Sunday morning because he couldnt be bothered to do something in the days leading up to it, or announce halfway through the morning:

"right, I've got to go out and get you a card". Err, no thanks, dont put yourself out .

LOL icod - i always flick through his phone - flick through anyones out of sheer nosiness!

dh is being sent abroad by work & has to leave the house beofre 10 am. my mum is away, so nothing for me & can't even phone my mum up for a chat hadn't realised this until now.

lmao @ cod

put the spoon away!!

Yes thats crazy, mommy deserves special treats to

actually, i reminded dh he needed to send a card to mil, then he said 'do you want anything' and i said 'shy - oh, yes, i'm a mum too!'
somehow it only applies to real mums - those who are over 50 & look like my mother. something wrong in my brain!

Dh said to me last week "oh, we're not going to bother with it are we?"

...although when I come to think about it I may have said something at one point about mothers/fathers day being just an excuse to sell cards and chocolate. But still...