Mother's Day - MNHQ needs your do's and don'ts.

[AbbyMumsnet]

We're putting together a list of Mother's Day do's and don'ts and we'd like your help. (You know the sort of thing: Do let me have a lie-in. Don't ask me, "What's for breakfast?". Do buy me beautiful things. Don't make the mistake of thinking that a red and black thong from Ann Summers qualifies as such.) The idea being that you can leave our humorous yet helpful list lying around somewhere that your DP will see it, so that your Mother's Day passes without a hitch. (Aren't we good to you?)

We look forward to receiving your suggestions. Ta v much. Mumsnet HQ

on the subject of cd don't buy me one that is advertised on tv

buy me chocolates and preferably a subscription to a chocolate club and some chocolate

and a card you made with some thing you mean inside

and some chocolates

and some chocolates

and no soppy cd

Rhubarb: my 1st baby is due in March, I think before Mother's Day.

I fully expect DH to get me a nice prezzy and a card, due to the fact that I will have recently pushed his offspring through my fanjo.

Tacky schmacky.

isn't mothers day an awfully long way off?

it's just been christmas

i will have some chocolates as aprt of my valentines day pressies

What date is Mothering Sunday this year?

Please remember that Mothering Sunday is bittersweet, remembering our mums whilst trying to be "just so" when the lads are excited to share "my day" and I'm liable to be a tad tetchy, even though I don't mean to be.

I'm happy with something the boys have made, but if you choose to buy something (and you usually do, cos you're a fab bloke) do remember that it's supposed to be off the boys.....so make sure you take at least one of them with you to the shop.

No, I don't want to go out for lunch, I would much rather have a lovely dinner and bottle of vino.

Don't go off for the whole day with your mum and leave me to go to ASDA with the kids!

when dcs wake up please dont elbow us in the ribs and if you do get up with dcs dont even think of moaning about how tired you are

If you're cooking breakfast in bed, don't keep calling stuff out like 'where have you put the frying pan?' and 'have we got any eggs?'.

Don't say 'oh f%$ it's f(&ing Mothers' Day' when the kids wake up and you realise you have to get up with them this year, please. Kind of spoils the warm fuzzy feeling.

Home made cards from children

Some flowers would be nice - especially freesias - my favourite smell.

Breakfast in bed prepared by the children - even though the bread will be an inch thick and I really can't stand chocolate at that time of the morning - it's the thought that counts.

No card from dh - that's naff.

Don't take me out for lunch - that's even naffer ( is that a proper word?)

Yes Do Remember is good for me.

Lie ins on both weekend mornings is a must.

Dont go out and buy a card for me On The Day. Its too late then.
Do get the DC's to make a drawing or steal flowers from the garden instead.

It is silly and comercial. The whole thing is a naff rip off.

AND I DON@T CARE.

I want a card, some flowers, breakfast in bed and lunch out somewhere nice.

Because I do.

Don't argue [grin}

Anything advertised as "the ideal gift for Mother's Day" isn't. How can it possibly be one-size-fits-all? Do I want a specially compiled CD of "Songs Your Mother Will Love"? No. I do not wish to listen to a vomit-inducing medley of Lionel Richie, Barry Manilow and Westlife. Nor do I want some sub Catherine Cookson-esque paperback with a predominantly lilac cover. And I don't want flaming Oil of Olay either.

A lie-in, a bunch of flowers (not carnations) and a home-made card will be perfectly adequate, thank you very much.

dont expect similar treatment on fathers day

Well in my case it would have to be...
DON'T route through the draws for an unused christmas card and scribble merry christmas out and write the following poem:

I love you mummy, I think you are scrummy.
I came from inside your tummy and you have a wobbly bummy.

[too exasperated to be angry emoticon]!!

Don't think that a lie in means that you have 'done Mother's Day' and all resumes as normal this minute I appear downstairs.

Thank you for the wonderful breakfast in bed that I know will happen, but please clear up the kitchen. And get the kids dressed.

and don't then bugger off to the gym

Do not assume that just because your baby is not yet old enough to understand Mothers Day that it somehow doesn't count. You - yes you, the partner and father - are expected to make the effort on behalf of your child.

When you do forget Mothers Day or make the mistake of assuming that you are somehow exempt and your wife spends the day in tears, 10 cards three days later does not make up for it!

Do remember that some of us will be celebrating Mothering Sunday.
And a lie-in and a small bunch of flowers would be perfect.

lol NAO!!!!!!

Yes a very long lie-in, take the kids out all day, and let me read, MN, watch crap TV, eat a take-away, get very drunk.

Thanks

ludaloo, have just seen your post. The card thing is not on but I think the poem is very cute - sorry!

do take the children out somewhere for an hour or three and let me play on MN/read/sleep etc.

Four hours trawling round a railway museum for the 350th time is not a suitable Mother's Day out...

I would rather have a wobbly bunch of daffs plucked from the garden than a skanky 'bouquet' of garage flowers...(you all know what I mean, right?)

Please make it my day to enjoy my family without any of the horrid bits. So, lie in that is actually a lie in rather than me hiding under the covers while the children perform the dambusters on top of my head. Breakfast in bed, natch, doesn't have to be anything fancy - tea and cereal fine as long as I can eat it in peace. Card def required, but please, please could I have a present this year for a change? I'm not talking diamonds, just something like a new paperback that I can rip the wrapping paper off. Or flowers. Children to be fed and dressed and kitchen tidy when I come downstairs. Happy to go and do something en famille, but I don't have to prepare dc's lunch or tea, and am allowed to walk out of the room when they bicker and someone else will sort it out. I get to read stories but don't have to supervise bath or teeth brushing. I get to kiss fragrant and tired children goodnight once they are tucked into their beds. God, wouldn't that be wonderful? It'll never happen.