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

my best mothers day

the kids were about 8 or 9. they made me cards, i remember specifically that ds2 made me a card with a helicopter on.

they picked some flowers

they made me breakfast in bed ( dh helped)

doesn't cost much

means the world

Butterflies sounds wonderful, cheegirl

Dh usually takes the dcs to choose things (he chooses shops where they are unlikely to choose tat...) - hearing them articulate why they think you'll like it is special - & sometimes they're even right.

DH bought a locket, with little photo of ds for my first mothers day (ds was about a month old) & I treasure that very much.

Lie in
Big mug of Earl Grey and croissant
Hand made card, hugs and kisses from DDs
Maybe a bunch of daffs.

That will do me. In the afternoon usually my sister comes round and we do an afternoon tea for our Mum.

Can't bear most of the things the shops think we want - yes, Sparkletastic why the vile violet scented stuff?

DH (with a bit of prompting) has so far remembered both years to get me a card "from" DS. Present has been chocolates, I think (nothing memorable, obviously!)

If I were still in England, I would like to go to Hampton Court Palace and see the daffodils (free!) and then have afternoon tea somewhere nearby, either in the Palace garden tearoom or one of the cafés outside the palace. There are some lovely shops around there too (more on the other side of the bridge) so a little light shopping for a nice memento of the day would be good!

As I will be in Australia though, and Mother's Day is some other time of year, I have no idea what to do. Just a day of DH thinking about how to help out and take the load off without needing to be asked/told would be good!

Sleep. Sleep. SLEEEEEEEEEEEPPP.

And a nice lunch wouldn't hurt.

I would like a day with the family, doing something we all enjoy Umm maybe a day out at a wildlife park then a nice meal, doesnt have to be anything fancy (home cooked or eat out).

I would equally settle for a day at home with my teenagers not looking at their mobiles constantly!

We avoid rip-off restaurant meals and have started a tradition where the men cook. DH, Dad and BIL decide who will do starter, main course and pudding and (in theory) the mums relax and do nothing! We always seem to end up with the washing up though!

Well yes not to bring the thread down again

But I have never had a 'mothers day'. Now a single mother so don't really care.

Surely you should get all the fuss and love every day?

No expensive gifts.
Handmade cards.
Lie in until 10.00.
Roast dinner cooked by DH.
Have some Cava left over from Christmas will save a bottle and put some Chambord Liqueur in for a a nice coctail.
Read my book in the afternoon.
Watch a good movie in the evening.

Fluffy - it's not only single mothers who wouldn't get anything if it wasn't made at school

Best thing - the bizarre things DS comes up with to write in his card when told to write "Mummy Thank you for....." - and a home-cooked meal that I don't have to clear up after.

For my mother - as a teenager I would go and pick daffodils and 'force' them in secret so that they were out in time. Tellingly, the daffodils in the garden are normally out by themselves nowadays, but she still likes a nice jug/vase crammed with daffodils.

When I said "day off", I didn't mean away from family. Just no cooking for fusspots, cleaning up after dc (and dh), arguing, having to coerce dd into doing her homework, stepping on lego, ironing clothes for next day, etc.

Perfect mother's day imo:

Sleep in as late as I like, have tea and croissants brought to me with fresh linen napkin(!) and smiles, kisses & hugs, some flowers would also be much appreciated along with the Sunday papers - unopened. A bubble bath and long, peaceful soak. Lunch cooked by dh, aided by dc and including a couple of glasses of very decent wine. A family walk, long one, then back for tea and cake. Good book in front of roaring fire while dc draw me lovely pictures. Bed.

My perfect mothers day is
The dc's bringing me croissants and tea in bed then they join me up there filling my bed with crumbs sharing my breakfast
Daffodils picked from the garden (one each)
Home (or school) made cards

And last year i was taken to a local nice hotel for a 4 course meal which was fantastic but not too expensive

I do think a spa day would be an amazing gift as a mothers day present but i dont think its anywhere near as good as homemade, thoughtful gifts

freebasing cocaine

I'd adore a day in Galgorm Spa
It's just about heaven on earth but I understand that it's unlikely to ever materialise

other than that

a kiss from dd1 (sub 3) that she doesn't wipe off and tell me as she's doing so

dd2 not trying to carry the dog around by the head

not having the "tomato ketchup isn't breakast" conversation

Coffee & croissants in bed at 7am, followed by a couple of hours peaceful reading whilst dh & the dc clean & tidy the kids' bedrooms & the playroom, so I don't have to do it later.

'Stately home' type day out for us + lovely MIL. Can't wait till the dc are old enough to take me to white knuckle theme parks, mind you .

Home by late afternoon, to cook a nice Sunday dinner for all of us - dh to occupy dc/ply MIL with booze whilst I potter in kitchen.

Bottle of wine in front of telly, with lift into work in the morning from dh.

I hate breakfast in bed, it's boring + uncomfortable!
I want a card from dd1 like the one she did last year in nursery with 'fill in the blanks' comments as it was quite obvious she had helped them write it(i like wine, nobhobs(sic) + cbeebies)
Then breakfast all together with DH doing all the kitchen faffy bit, he takes them to the park + somewhere for lunch while I go for a run, have a bath, buy a paper and read it in a quiet, tidy empty house.

They can come back for tea though, i'll be missing them by then!

Ronaldinhio have you ever tried just agreeing to ketchup to breakfast, just for the hell of it?

for me
paper white daffs
manicure
brunch/ lunch out somewhere nice

for my mum:
rose from David Austin with her name
lunch somewhere nice
a good book

for MIL
DVD of Cranford
sunday lunch at our house cooked by dh

I send my lovely mother a card and club together with siblings for a large bouquet of flowers, but she is insistent that the focus of mothers day should be mothers whose DC still live at home, so encourages us to go out and do something nice for me, rather than meeting up with her.

I like breakfast in bed, but hate spa days and beauty treatments in general. I like booking lunch for me, DH and the DC so that I don't have to clean the kitchen after eating DH's burnt attempt at a roast. Have 4 DC under 7, so ignoring the washing, ironing cleaning and cooking for one day is a super fabby treat too.

stealthsquiggle stern look

(but it does seem to me that actually, once tried, ketchup for breakfast might not seem like such a great idea, but maybe that is from the viewpoint of someone with one ketchup-hating DC and another who can take or leave it )

I mean just ketchup
not with egg sausage toast
just ketchup

you are annoyingly sensible, should I just give in and hand her a bowl and teaspoon?

Well it would certainly take her by surprise, Ronaldinhio - and it can't be worse than my DD's Christmas Day breakfast of pink smarties - lots of pink smarties .