We need your ideas on what's good for Mother's Day please

[OliviaMumsnet]

So, let's banish all this talk of Frozen Britain and concentrate on spring, and in particular Mothering Sunday (which is 14 March this year)

We're looking for recommendations of fabulous treats you'd like to receive or have done in the past- for Mother's Day. (but it could have been a birthday/Christmas present too iykwwm)

Treats, presents, spa ideas, nice days/lunches out with the kids.
You can be as specific as you like
Thanks, as ever, MNers
MN Towers

I'd like a lie in until with a cup of coffee and the papers whilst dh gives the dcs breakfast, and I'd like him to do the whole dinner, bed, bath hell bit.

I don't want cards, overpriced flowers, spa days, or any 'things'. Just a bit of time off from the everyday drudgery.

Something hand-made from the children
and a lie-in

DH will go out & buy flowers and chocolates - but he will not take the children with him so it is not really from them. Or he will take them and buy the cheap supermarket variety and I have spent years training them to choose the more expensive bouquets - time for a refresher course!

Or would love a professional photograph - or at least one without the distracting clutter that is in this house.

i would love finger print jewellery and a photo session and photo of me and the dcs.

A proper lie-in, ie one which involves DH taking DD out for the early part of the morning, so there is no way on earth I can be disturbed. When they return, I would like to be given a hand-made card, a cup of coffee and a copy of the Observer. Don't mind about the rest of the day.

I'm quite traditional- a nice lie in, a bunch of cheerful flowers, a few chocolates and a card with a scribble from ds in it would make my day.

cards made by the children

a lie in (ie someone to watch kids for a couple of hours in morning)

tea and toast in bed

i love teh KIDS enjoying giving

even if its a half chewed cheerio stuck to a card.

they LIKE arranging a treat that they can share with you.

years ago the best treat was an afternoon on the sofa alone with a book

Bunch of spring flowers

Weekend in London with my dd1 [5].

That is the thing I dream of at the moment. Central hotel and travel pass, with return rail travel. Fabby.

Are you going to get that for me. Awww thanks towers. I'll request the weekend off work.

I dont want to bring the thread down but :

It means so much to me when someone remembers that I wont be getting a card or present from my DD. Its very touching when people mention her or send me a note.

Mother's day is very hard for bereaved mums. (and of course those who have lost their mums).

Cup of tea in bed, card from kids (would involve DH having to plan a bit and supervise the making of, fairly unlikely TBH), and to not have to plan ANYTHING (what to do, where to go, what to eat, what to take, when those that need sleep will sleep etc etc) for ANYONE all day.
Pref followed by a shiney new Wallander before an early, uninterrupted night!

Oh darling. Listen to the weather - maybe she sends that to you. Breezes, or warm sun, or clouds zipping by in the wind.

X-post with chegirls and now feeling super-shallow and very fortunate, to be honest it had never even occurred to me. I'm so sorry

Please, please dont feel like that isthatthetime. I really dont expect anybody to. You have every right to enjoy your Dcs and wish for what you want on mother's day.

Thank you tree. She often sends me butterflies (now I sound all woo woo but its true )

Butterflies. What better?

So if no London trip should turn up, I'll just grab my dd's and have a big squeeze and a huge smell of their hair. Perfect.

Time alone in a hot bath, with a cup of tea.

A card that says Mummy, and not Mum.

Freesias, not chrysanths.

A DH who remembers the above, instead of having to be told. Again. Big children who remember as well, or get a nudge from their father.

(Don't want much, do I?)

Ticket to see Oliver! in the West End followed by/preceded by a nice meal.

Taxi there and back too.

Have I won and is my prize what I asked for?

A bunch of daffodils NOT forecourt flowers

handmade card

no cooking for the day

a day off!

I have revenge suggestions for the forgetting of Mothers Day....

Last year DH went away on a stag weekend, no card, no present.

I changed all of his bookmark links on the computer to threads on mumsnet about forgetting mothers day.

A few days later he gave me a voucher for the local beauty salon.

i will be happy with coffee, breakfast with my family (not in bed, creates crumbs!) and the day with my family, walk on the beach or something, a day to relax and do not very much, with my family not doing very much. I do not want DH and DD to spend all day in the kitchen to make me something special, with me on my own. I would prefer sarnies and their company. Being a mum is about being a family. I am not interested in grand gestures of greatness just on that day, i do not want big presents, lots of money we do not have spent on things i do not want. I do not want pressure for it to be just right or else it will be ruined.

I can have that special something to say I am a good mother on any day, and tbh it will be more special if its just because, not because my family have been told that is The Day.

I was quite upset when this wasn't remembered at ds's school a couple of years ago, a little peeved when it happened again last year. Some single parents don't get appreciated if a card is not made by their child at school.

As you would like a recommendation however:

I'd like to go out somewhere with ds, maybe to London for the weekend, stay in a really nice hotel (with some goodies waiting for me in the room , watch a show on Saturday night, wake up to a continental breakfast, then a stroll around the park , a visit to the welcome museum so I can see the gore, play with the keyhole surgery stuff and the medical toys they have there (yes, I am a nerd) followed by a nice lunch. Time to just explore until we catch the train home.

pmsl @ mahumbug

Best pressie recieved as a card signed by dd (aged 1 just) and a bottle of the perfume i wore on my wedding day as it was stolen misplaced at the reception.

My ideal day would be having a bit of a lie in, tea and toast in bed with the papers, a lovely bath and a nice day with dd and dh, maybe a drive or walk somewhere. tbh not that bothered about going out to eat would be happy with a picnic.