Mother's Day- spend with your kids/family or spend it alone?

Anonymous
I was just curious what people tend to do for Mother's Day...do you spend it with your kids or do you do something you really want to, even if it means you do it solo or sans kids? Or both?!
Anonymous
This is my second Mother's Day. I like to spend it with my family, but I also like the option to do whatever I want! Like sleep in, run to get coffee and stop to shop on the way home without thought, etc. I generally don't plan like a spa day alone or anything.
Anonymous
This is my first, and I told DH to surprise me, but no need to go overboard. The spa just called to confirm my appointment tomorrow morning, so it looks like that's what I'll be doing. I'm betting we're doing something as a family in the afternoon as well.

Frankly, I can't wait until the days of soggy cereal, burnt toast and macaroni necklaces, too!
Anonymous
alone shopping for myself, then going out for coffee

nothing better than that!

Anonymous
I get to sleep in - which will most likely be interrupted by my son who can't wait to show me the pancakes he made - so he can eat a second helping

We will spend dinner with my in-laws. My FIL was just diagnosed with a degenerative disease, so it's time for me to suck it up and share Mother's Day.

Anonymous
I get to spend the whole day gardening, no other responsibilities. Of course, the day before, I go my favorite gardening center and buy some wonderful new plants that I otherwise would feel guilty spending money on.
Anonymous
Thank you for this thread. Earlier tonight I suggested to DH that after our family trip to a restaurant for lunch, maybe I could have a treat for mother's day by getting together with a single friend of mine. His response? "Sure. And maybe on our anniversary I can go out with my friends too."
Anonymous
sorry, PP and sorry, OP, but I cannot fathom why you would even consider spending tomorrow -of all days - without your children. Once they are 20 years old and living a thousand miles away (possibly never to return), you can have all of the alone time you want.

I am looking forward to sharing the day with my little guys, being amazed at how much they have grown and changed since last year, and thinking ahead to what the new year will bring.

I know all families are different, but it makes me sad to think your celebration of being a mother means you get away from your children.
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Family bbq for all the moms in my village of a family and then Zumba. Hopefully I will get a massage too.
Anonymous
I spend every weekend with my son and we have a great time. Tomorrow I'm sleeping in then going shopping and maybe gardening in the afternoon. Family picnic for dinner - we'll have breakfast together as well~!
Anonymous
I spent it with my DD but I am a single mom so I don't have a choice. I'd love to be able to sleep in for a change and then be taken out to lunch/dinner. If I could be given anything, it would be a day off sometime (not on Mother's Day but another weekend). I think the poster who scolded the mom for wanting a day off is wrong. You don't know what it is like for every mom. Maybe that mom takes cares of her kids 24/7 and just wants a day off. Maybe she has a child with special needs or maybe she cares for everyone in her family with no help. There is nothing wrong with that! It doesn't make her less of a mom. It makes her human. Maybe Mother's Day isn't the best choice for that day off but if that is the only time she gets her chance, go for it. I take care of every single thing for my DD and have no help. It is exhausting sometimes and if a friend offered to take care of her for the day so I could get a pedicure, have lunch, sleep in or whatever, I'd take it.
Anonymous
I think I'll be spending it all days indoors with my 2 little girls while my dh spends the day outside doing yardwork. My girls are very allergic to this stupid pollen. Maybe for a treat in the afternoon, I will get to go grocery shopping for the week. I am feeling a bit sorry for myself at this points, but whatever.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:sorry, PP and sorry, OP, but I cannot fathom why you would even consider spending tomorrow -of all days - without your children. Once they are 20 years old and living a thousand miles away (possibly never to return), you can have all of the alone time you want.

I am looking forward to sharing the day with my little guys, being amazed at how much they have grown and changed since last year, and thinking ahead to what the new year will bring.

I know all families are different, but it makes me sad to think your celebration of being a mother means you get away from your children.


OMG!

What is wrong with you?

I was a PP who wanted to spend it alone. I spend my non-working, non-sleeping hours wiht my kids. One day by myself is a "sin?"


Do you have a life of your own? Enough wih the guilt!
Anonymous
I'm a single parent with a 5 year old boy. His dad visits on the second Sunday of each month, or sometimes every two months. That happens to be tomorrow. So I'll be doing something on my own. I don't know what the big deal is about mother's day - I spend A LOT of time with my son - every single morning and every single evening and every single weekend on my own with him. I have him Suzuki violin which means I help him with his violin practice for 20-30 minutes every day, and go to his individual and group violin classes 2/week. I feel every day is Mother's day. I tell my son at least once every day that I love him and I know that he knows it. I don't know see how one day of the year can stand out from all the rest - those of you who are spending it with your kids, what special outing or activity makes it different from any other weekend?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:sorry, PP and sorry, OP, but I cannot fathom why you would even consider spending tomorrow -of all days - without your children. Once they are 20 years old and living a thousand miles away (possibly never to return), you can have all of the alone time you want.

I am looking forward to sharing the day with my little guys, being amazed at how much they have grown and changed since last year, and thinking ahead to what the new year will bring.

I know all families are different, but it makes me sad to think your celebration of being a mother means you get away from your children.


How old is your child?

For me, I like to have some alone time. But I don't feel guilty because my husband is with them and having fun. He sometimes complains, but not on Mother's Day, so that is why I take advantage of the day!
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