To feel a touch taken for granted by my lazy arse teens on Mother’s Day

[WoollyMummoth]

I’m sat here with my coffee next to 2 unopened mother’s day cards and a bunch of flowers waiting for my Dd17 and ds14 to haul their arses out of bed and give them to me. Said cards and flowers were bought by dh at 11 last night, I know this as he rang me from the supermarket to ask if I like tulips!
I’m a normal mum who provides an ear when they’re worried or excited about stuff in their life, I feed,cloth,taxi them about the land soAIBU to point out to my two that it would have been nice if they could have chosen their own cards and flowers from their not too meagre spending money!!

Weird how Mumsnet seems to be very London/SE England-centric until supermarket opening hours get mentioned, when immediately 'everyone' seems to have 24/7 opening supermarkets and are completely oblivious to Sunday trading laws. .

Yes it might not be simple, it might not be frequent, but saying that Mothers Day is your only respite indicates you might need to replicate what happens on Mothers Day....at other times!

If you look at my original post that was my point that because for many mothers time off (for the reasons I have outlined before) is such a rarity it is really not on and those sons should be in a load of trouble. You can’t possibly have it for much more than 1 day a year as it simply isn’t feasible people buying you presents and making a huge fuss all the time. I’m in no way a martyr but you must make sacrifices when you have children.

If I’m honest I don’t really remember doing much for my mother on mother’s day as a teen....I have no memory of ever buying her something anyway.... however we are all late 20’s/early 30’s now and really appreciate her. We all (5 of us) travelled home for the weekend, took her out for dinner, got her flowers, chocolates, ugg slippers and tickets to the theatre. So there is hope!!!!