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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So don't go. Relax at home (take a nap, read a book, lie around on the couch) while your husband and toddler go to brunch.[/quote]

+1 A day home, alone, would be the best gift anyone could give me.  [/quote]

Agree with this.  Just let your husband and child go over there and fit something in for you guys during some other point in the day.  This is unless you are saying that your MIL demands an entire, fully-scheduled day of activities for her - at that point, your husband needs to carve some time out for you if that's what you want.  But this is really something your husband should handle.  I am hugely pregnant right now with DC2 so I am not planning on making any trips to visit my MIL or my mother (they are both within LONG driving distance, around 2 hours each way), but am totally happy if my husband and DC1 decide to spend the hours trekking back and forth to spend quality time.

I will say - the thing about Mother's Day that irks me the most is that I have to be the one who plans all of the Mother's Day activities, including ones that allegedly are for me.  I am trying to stay out of it all this year because I am too tired and really am fine with just a "Happy Mother's Day" and kiss from DC1, but I am curious about the outcome of my experiment of not planning anything for my mother (aside from buying her present and calling her myself), my MIL, or me.  Can you tell I am not a holiday person?[/quote]

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