So Aussie mums - our desires for MOther's day are..... ( oh kiwis too if yours is when ours is)

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I have no idea.

Not sure what ideas I should plant in their heads. Although I did point out a lovely bag and wallet to dd2 who asked dh for them for me - dh told her to tell me as long as it is no more than $10 I am okay stingy bugger!!!!

Poor you. Go on, unload about it to us.

My husband wrote me a poem. It rhymed "mummy" and "bummy". At least he tried

oh it sounds pathetic now
but I got nothing. nada. Having spent the weekend doing GOOD TURNS for other people am feeling very bah humbug

(actually, not really. my stepgranny seemed to enjoy her 95th birthday party and my mother was pleased with her cards and flowers as chosen by DD, but still, grrrrrrrr at DH and his uselessness)

Sorry you had a crap day MrsJC. I know a lot of men "just don't get it" but it's still hurtful when you spend your life running round after other people not to have some acknowledgment on Mother's Day. Our guests left early in the end leaving DH to take our eldest to rugby while I drank bucks fizz by the pool so I did have a nice day, but I don't quite get the "I didn't have a chance to get you anything" excuse when we spent three hours together in a shopping centre on Saturday!!!!!

Oh dear, how disappointing. It's not like he can claim it slipped his mind, given the saturation advertising.

When's your next celebration? I'd be looking for a VERY special wedding anniversary/birthday in your position.

my birthday was a couple of weeks ago. He honestly didn't know it was mothers' day(even though I mentioned it about a week ago). He is a lovely, lovely man but sometimes his head in the clouds approach to life is TOO MUCH

wedding anniversary in August - am thinking we should try and do something nice this time (although then we should do something big next year as it'll be 10 years ). I didn't actually wwant him to buy anything - just make a card with DD or something.
Never mind. He is sorry and I should be used to him being like this, he is a lovely thoughtful kind man really and in the light of some of the recent threads I've read on here, I should remember that I am bloody lucky. I even got him a present on Sunday because I saw something I knew he reallyt wanted!

Well if you bought him a present, put him on notice that this year you have swapped Mothers' Day and Fathers' Day, and there had better be breakfast in bed, flowers, thoughtful home-made cards and presents for you in September. Have you told him how disappointed you are?

And I don't see why doing something big for your anniversary next year should preclude doing something big this year. I make my husband go on holiday with me (he's too nervous to leave his desk for more than 48 hours so I have to put my foot down). So far we've had our Hanoi, Rangoon and Luang Prabang anniversaries, and I feel a Sydney one coming up.

Haven't there been some awful husbands around on MN lately? I don't post on those threads, because all I really want to know is why on earth you'd get pregnant to someone so vile.

there really have, I find it really depressing. I can't imagine DH coming home and demanding housework be done, complaining, telling me what to do...it's just awful. and what a shit example for your children to have to follow.

he was going to buy me something today but forgot his card - sigh - the dope.

we'll look into at least a night away for the anniversary - haven't really got any babysitters for longer than that.

Arfishy - there are some ww2 military service records for a couple of great uncles I want to check out - including one who was courtmartialled!!! I could just get them copied and sent but that is not the same as poring over the actual documents.

I am also visiting the war memorial as I discovered a great great uncle who died at Gallipoli and he is listed on the wall of remembrance - want to do a rubbing of that. As well as look up other war info regarding the other men in our family who served in ww1 and 2.

Bama - I did like Canberra when I visited last - which seems like a lifetime ago.

Mine was splendid. When, eventually everyone else got up ,we had train smash and bacon.

Long healthy walk down the beach to a cafe which was too far away to walk to so we never got there. Thank you, Mr W.

Evening at a local posh-ish restaurant. The waiter could not explain the wines. Ho hum.

Lovely card, book and 4th series of "Golden Girls". Pukka.

Hi Aussie moms. This is a little off the topic, hope you don't mind. Can anyone reccommend a good Australian (or Kiwi if anyone knows) moms forum like this one? I am trying to find one and my Google search is not doing it. Found this one though!

Thanks a mil

chilly toes - i haven't found an aussie one better than this.

same here - can't find anything better (am in NZ). There are parenting ones on Littlies, Little Treasures and Trade ME byut they;re not really my sort of thing

are you in Oz or NZ?

Chillytoes - There is BubHub (certainly in Oz, not sure about NZ) but to be honest, you're better off sticking with MN!