to cry on Mother's Day (or is it Mothers' Day, pedants) ?

[screamingabdab]

I was woken up from a very strange dream about marrying a transexual (don't ask) by little footsteps and whispers

DS1 and 2 had made cards at Cubs and Beavers. DS1 had made a bracelet.

DS2 (age 5) card says:

My Hand Poem;

This is my hand
My hand will do
A 1000 loving things for you
And you will remember
When I am tall
That once my hand
Was just this small

Cue blubbing (me) and bemused looks (them)

YANBU, but actually it should be Mothering Sunday

YANBU! That brought a tear to my eye too - how lovely

YANBU.

Agree with Lindenlass, it's Mothering Sunday.

There is an international Mother's Day.

Dts (5) had made mothers day cards at school, dt1 card says, I love you because you stroke the cat

And dt2 card says, I love you because you are taking me to the beach house

whoingodsnameami that's beautiful

Themildmanneredjanitor: Saw your MD thread. It's kind of endearing in it's crapness (I too have suffered similar disappointments - but pot pourrii!! what is it FOR?)

Screamingabdab, that's so lovely ... just re-read the little poem and felt tears pricking at my eyes too.

I ordered breakfast in bed this morning, but have been busy getting a roast lunch on for my mum.

I think, like the others, it is mothering sunday, originally invented so that mothers could go to church or something.

I got that same poem and I cried too!

Aww that's so sweet. Must remember that for DP's next card - guaranteed to reduce him to a blubbering wreck. When is Father's Day anyway (or should that be Fathering Sunday )?

Love the poem - YANBU

I got "I like you mum" from DS1

and I love my mummy because you have nice hair from DS2

I very nearly did blub when I opened the card DS1 sent (he is at Uni).. He had written 'To Mum, Happy Mothers Day, We love you very much'

He usually never shows any emotion so was quite unusual for him

Thanks for your replies everyone - I have been out for a nice cup of tea and a piece of cake at a garden centre (I AM my mother)

mumnosbest DS2 was so thrilled I liked his card so much, he took it a bit far and told me he had written the poem (i knew the scout leader had got it from the internet or something). I chose not to tell him off for telling porkies on this occasion!

oldraver that's lovely. I used to get very warm fuzzy feelings for my parents when I was at Uni, not when I went home at the hols though!. My mum used to give me blow-by-blow accounts of the progress of her kitchen being fitted when i phoned her, and my dad used to send me newspaper clippings (on subjects such as homesickness, anorexia, and drugs - was he trying to tell me something?)