To spend £8 on a Mother's Day gift for myself?

[MotherMerryHenry]

For Mother's Day today, DH very sweetly gave me my fave chocs from Hotel Chocolat...a little tray which costs about £2.50. However I had already said last week that I wanted to go to my favourite chocolate shop of all on M's Day - Montezuma's (eyes roll back, tongue hangs out to side, dribble, dribble, drooooool), so we all packed off down to the shop. I carefully picked out four small items, and spent £8. Afterwards I told DH how much I'd spent and he was genuinely shocked and went on for a wee while about how he thought I'd spent too much money.

Let me add here that this week he bought a bottle of Sancerre for some friends, costing about £10. Now, considering that I'd been joking beforehand about spending £20 I certainly didn't think £8 was a lot for a Mother's Day gift. If that's his attitude I think next year I should ask him for diamonds.

YANBU. But your dh is seeing chocolate through a man's eyes. For him £2.50 is major indulgence, compared to the cost of, say, a bar of Galaxy, or even a box of Ferrero Rocher. Now wine, that's another thing altogether. Wine is special, selecting it is a man's job, requires a certain blend of sophistication and testosterone...etc etc etc blah blah blah.

What I forgot to add was that once we got home he pointed out that I would be unable to eat it (as I'm currently on a restricted diet until Weds) but that he would! Bloody cheek! I've hidden it in DS's bedroom - he'd never look there as he never tidies it up .

yeah, i agree, blokes see chocolate as something you buy when buying petrol and it should cost about 48p / price of a star bar.

tell dh you'll order lily o'briens next time, he'll sh*t himself!

Men just don't get chocolate!

I don't get this. aren't your kids supposed to get you stuff for mothers' day if they're old enough to do so not your husband? My bloke has never bought me anything, why should he, and I usually tell the kids to save their pocket money and just make a card. If you want to buy yourself chocolates fine, but I don't understand how buying yourself stuff means its a mothers day present.

2rebecca, our DS is 2!! Much as I may like to think he's advanced for his age I don't think he'd manage to get to the corner shop for a Twix and back on his own .

I don't think it's odd or unusual for a DH to get a Mother's Day present; all my friends' partners do it and we all do the same on Father's Day. The point about the chocolate is that we had already arranged that my M Day treat would be to go out for the day, including popping into the choc shop. DH gave me the money for the choc. So yes, it was clearly a MDay pressie.

bloody outrageous behaviour
you should be ashamed of yourself

Why not? I bought my own chocolate and wine today! YANBU - enjoy

Damn! Should have bought my own Sancerre, too.

I actually think that even when DS is old enough to look after M Day gifts himself, I'll still get stuff for DH - as a show of my appreciation of what a good daddy he is. Why not, indeed?

i got a paper flower with a straw stem in a decorated cup.

and a picnic in the park about 100m from the house.

and DS1 threatened to kill me if i put his brother down for a nap which would delay the picnic by an hour.

Did your DH make the flower-cup? Aww, bless!

here it is

want to know the reasons why my children love me, they were written on the petals?

That's so sweet, dragonbutter!

Go on then, what did they say?

1 cos we do
2 marbles (2 year olds contribution)
3 because we want her to buy us smarties
4 because we want her to take us for a pizza sit down
5 because we want her to take us to the cinema
6 because she's nice

That's hilarious! My fave is 'cos we do'. Did it make you feel spesh?

no, it's awful really.

is that really why they love me?

shouldn't complain, at least they do.

i'd just prefer nicer reasons.

Aww, but they're so little, still! You clearly have high expectations - already enrolled them into Junior Mensa?

not likely
not with their genes.

You seem to have an unnaturally high level of carrot awareness, though. I wouldn't undervalue that, if I were you

roffle

that thread was in response to a whinge about people asking stupid questions on MN.

I'm off to bed - night night and sweet dreams!

i just figured it out.
see, not quite mensa material.
goodnight.

Mmmm - Montezuma's and Sancerre. Yum.

Well today I discovered that at the same time that DH spent £2.50 on my chocs he was also spending £8 in the same shop for a client!

I was slightly stunned by this revelation; it came about because he was questioning whether he'd been too generous to the client. I managed to persuade him that it was a bit overgenerous and that he ought to send them my smaller box instead - so now I have swapped it for the big box!

I'm sorry, when it comes to champagne chocolate truffles there's no such thing as morals.