Who books a table for lunch at 12.00 on Mother's day?

[mrsruffallo]

I am fuming. What about my lay in?

By 12 o'clock I will have stood up in front of a church full of people including about 100 beavers, cubs, brownies and guides, and attempted to bring Mothering Sunday to life, while also making all mothers present feel special and hoping against hope that they will forgive whoever it was that decided it would be a great idea to drag them to church that day!

Lunch out would be lovely, but I expect I'll be going home for a lie down.

A lie in is out of the question. Both DDs are already bursting with the effort of suppressing whatever "surprises" they have squirrelled away in various hiding places around the house. I fully expect to be woken at about 7am and required to look delighted and amazed before I've even had my first cup of coffee.

A lie in until 10:30, followed by a pleasant family lunch sounds lovely!

Come on, DR. He surely has time to buy you a gift from the dc?
Buying yourself a present is never a good thing

It's better than no present at all.

No, no it isn't
I am dubious as to whether you can ever buy yourself a present at all

i quite like buying myself presents.

I always get just what i want.

I can assure you that it is better than no present at all and yes, you can buy yourself a present - it's really quite simple, just as easy as buying one for someone else. Easier in fact.

But what would I know? I'm "rough" and apparently post under a namechange I have no recollection of

I will reiterate, DH has never so much as got me a card. Although I am expected to sort out MIL's mother's day gumph every year.Be grateful for what you have got and stop guttersniping about the details, you ungrateful wench.

Does one guttersnipe on Mn then?

Soupy, I love you

Why hasn't he got you a card?
Have you never told him how much it means to you?

He obviously thinks mother's day is for mothers, and I'm his wife...so I don't count.

Really?

The kids have just informed me that they haven't got me anything (12, 10 and 3) and DH has just unpacked the Tescos bags and told me he's got me a box of chocolates.

Think yourself lucky you're getting a lunch out, you ungrateful woman.

You are the ungrateful one, box of chocs sounds nice

Sorry for the delay, DH is home so I've been kicked off the pc onto the laptop which takes
aaaaages to fire up. I don't think badly of you at all mrsR, I merely wanted to point out you should count your blessings - I would swap my sunday with yours in a heartbeat. So enjoy

No such luck Mrs R! Have changed my driving lesson around and am going to try to get a weeks worth of school uniforms/work clothes done tomorrow as I hope to spend the day with my mum.

No, I want lunch out, not some old box of chocolates (which I know will be Dairy Milk 'cos I get them every year)

Yeah...probably am ungrateful

By mrsruffallo Fri 12-Mar-10 21:18:02
It means getting up at 10.30 to leave at 11.30
I was planning to stay in bed until at least 3.

I've bought a good book, nice breakfast to have in bed...
Now this

just drink copious ammounts

Oh dear, Dairy Milk. I feel your pain

And they are half price in Tesco! (but I'm sure that's not the reason he bought them!)

I'll fix the grin on my face and say "ooooh, lovely" and it will be fine and no-one will ever suspect that I'm fighting the urge to hit him round the head with them.

The strangest time we ate out for mothers day was a few years back when it fell on the Sunday that the clocks went forward.

DH had left it a bit late thoughtfully booked a table for 12 noon but my body was telling me it was 11am.

This year my lovely Dad is cooking a meal for us so that mum and I get spoilt together

We have a table booked for 1, an hour and a half away from home though.
More than making up for that fact though is that its for the brunch matinee at a restaurant with cinema screen....they show kids movies and kids eat free while we drink cocktails and eat brunch. And childless IL's to chase the childers and hold the baby.
Bliss.

It's not Mother's Day in Belgium. Thank God! As I have 12 french speaking children and a magician coming at 2.30. Lie in, schmie in! I have "much wine" written on shopping list after "birthday cake".....