What are your Mother's Day plans?
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Anonymous
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I wish I had some other family members around to celebrate with. MIL and FIL live 5 hours away and spend most holidays (including mother’s day) with their friends at their vacation condo. On the off chance they’re at home - again, 5 hours away - on Mother’s Day, they don’t actually celebrate because my two SIL’s (my husband’s 2 sisters) are infertile and big time child free/child hater, so Mothers Day is a big trigger for them.
My parents are about 10 hours away driving, and spend Mother’s Day with the rest of my family - my siblings (neither of whom have kids but it’s not a big thing), aunts, uncles, cousins, and their children. They have a big get-together at my one cousin’s house. It’s really fun - I was able to go last year. But now I’m very pregnant and it’s high risk and I’m cut off from travel. So my only plans are taking my 3 year old to soccer in the morning where I will be too pregnant to do anything but stand there awkwardly, then maybe we’ll go out for a late lunch/early dinner later in the day. And I’ll have to look at all their cute pictures on Facebook later. 
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Anonymous
| invited like 20 people over for a bbq, half are single, half are families with kids...celebrating coming from a mother (before the pc police come out, they are close friends, I know they all have mothers) |
Anonymous
F#ck that. MIL gets Saturday or even another weekend. |
Anonymous
No. PP gets Mother’s Day with her family. She’s actively mothering and gets priority. |
Anonymous
x1000 |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Is “passed” southern for “died”? |
Anonymous
| Brunch and a kids soccer game |
Anonymous
Not pp. I don't think it's necessarily "southern", but that is what it means. It is pretty common to hear around here. I think it's a gentler way of saying it. |
Anonymous
| Just hanging out with my lovely children! |
Anonymous
| I will likely be coming home from hospital with newborn to my 2 and 5 year old on Friday, so I’m sure this year will be extra chaotic! |
Anonymous
| Do you all feel like Mother’s day is more for mothers of children or older mothers of adults? |
Anonymous
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Our moms are out-of-town so when the kids were little, I just wanted an afternoon to myself and then DH ordered in dinner. With my now-teens, I usually want family time since they don't usually want to hang out with us so we'll go out for a nice lunch and then a hike, visit a museum or something else.
But, this year DD and I will be finishing up a Girl Scout camping trip that morning and right after we get home I have to head out for a business trip. So, other than (I'd expect) some recognition of moms at the GS camp breakfast, there will be no Mothers-Daying this year. |
Anonymous
| Sending my husband and daughter to have brunch with his mom while I spend the day with my mom and sister. Will have dinner with my nuclear family which my husband will take care of. No presents. No one needs more things. |
Anonymous
| My kids are tweens. I’m going to sleep in. I’ve made a reservation for brunch. I’ve scheduled a massage for the afternoon. I’ll make a dinner reservation. For my gift, I’ve requested that the kids and I sit down together and watch old videos from when they were babies/toddlers. One of my kids is exceptionally considerate and will try very hard to make me feel special on Mother’s Day — but she does that year round. My spouse is lame and we’re headed for divorce so I really don’t care what he does, but for the kids’ sakes, I’ll act pleased if he gives me a card. |