Accidentally booked tickets a Bricktastic Lego event on Mother's day

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My DD (13) is really into Lego so I booked tickets to Bricktastic event where people look at and sell Lego. It was £10 for 3 of us but I didn't realise til after I booked that it was on Mother's Day.
I have not told my daughter about it and I would rather have a lie in (it is at 10.30) and go to a late lunch which is booked for 14.30.
AIBU to just not go or am I being a bit mean.

Sounds like a nice thing to do on Mother’s Day

To what?

I would still go and have my lie in in another day.

Yes I think the majority of people are sensible but there will be about 20 threads on here in the next fortnight agonising about having to do something on Mothers Day/ not doing something on Mothers Day etc.

But she booked the tickets, so was happy to go. Now she's saying she wants a lie in, as its mothers day??

Quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever read!

Your kid's 13. Surely you can have a lie-in any weekend you want. If the Lego thing's at 10.30, go to that and then have lunch. If the Lego thing was at lunchtime, then yeah, cancel, but it's not going to kill you to be somewhere at 10.30am when you could have a lie-in on any other Sunday.

I’d go, it sounds like a lovely thing to do with your DD on Mother’s Day. You can have a lie in and go out for lunch any weekend.

Presume its Brick Festival in Bury on Mother’s Day.

Can’t honestly believe someone would post about this on MN. Make a decision. Go or don’t go. Are you honestly looking to strangers to justify your decision to let down your child?

Mothers day is to spend with your kids, not to lie in bed and ignore them. YabuZ

What difference does that make?

And why didn’t she just book two tickets to begin with so the child could go with one of her parents. Then she and the daughter could go to the next event. It’s a Lego event not a two weeks summer holiday. Talk about making a big deal out of something so trivial.

They sound like the type of family who all traipse around the supermarket together too.

I can't believe I'm having to spell this out.

She bought the tickets because it was something she knew her daughter would like. That doesn't equate to it being something she PERSONALLY "finds enjoyable."

Surely you understand the concept of parents doing things they don't personally find much fun (driving to swimming lessons/supervising dance classes/standing awkwardly around at parties or softplay etc.) because they know their kids enjoy them?

But she doesn't want to go now and is looking for reasons not to. Anyway I'm not a parent so I'm going to exit this thread because obviously my opinion isn't warranted - sorry I'm not parenty enough for you and don't quite get it

I love lego.

This. I’d rather do something DS enjoyed with me.

I'd much rather go to a lego event than have an overpriced, mediocre lunch in an overstuffed venue.

Bricktastic was awesome - we met the Lego chief creative, did a make a take with the new smart bricks, saw amazing MOCs - but it was 21/22 Feb

if you mean the event in Bury then it won’t be as good or take as long

As I understand it, you have double booked yourself on Mother’s Day.
You booked the Lego event for your daughter( not realising it was Mother’s Day) but you also planned a lie in and lunch which I guess you were looking forward to.
You have a few options, your daughter doesn’t know you have tickets so you could just 🤐
Or you could just tell her you have tickets and celebrate Mother’s Day on the Saturday and rebook your lunch.

You are weirdly over the top about this. Family’s going on days out together isn’t weird, and it’s not comparable to doing a weekly shop together. Bizarre.

It is weird when one of the family members doesn't want to go. Just let the teen go with someone who might actively enjoy it with her.
Unless their 'family days out' are few and far between, there really is no need for the angst about such a trivial thing.

ETA Seeing as the OP is making such a big deal about having a 'lie in' on one particular Sunday in the whole year, one can only presume that the OP is quite inflexible and everything is a big deal for her.

A lie in till 9ish then Bricktastic fun before lunch sounds like a perfect mothers day to me.

I think it’s odd that you don’t want to do an activity with your child on Mother’s Day. Could you have your lie in on the Saturday?

Mother’s Day is just a day to sell cards and gifts. In the real world life goes on. You can have a lie in another day. It wouldn’t even cross my mind not to book something just because of such a day

What is the point in sleeping away most of the morning?! Spending quality time with your DD and having a nice lunch sounds like a great day.

Mothering Sunday, as it is properly known, was a thing long before any greetings card manufacturer was founded. It's the middle sunday of Lent and the traditional day to go and help your poor old mum to do her Spring Cleaning.

Surely your husband could give you breakfast in bed, take your daughter off to Leo and then come back to collect you after for your Mother’s Day lunch!!