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[quote=Anonymous]I just told my DD who just had a baby that I want her - and her DH to, from this year forward, to 'take' Mother's Day and Father's Day as their day. I say this as someone who has/HAD mother/MIL both in town (both died in recent years- both father and FIL still alive.) The first couple of years we would take time to see both mom's on Mother's Day after me getting a bit of pampering in AM (honestly when the kids were young lots of banging around downstairs, kids coming into my bed, getting taken out of my bed - then breakfast in bed 'shared' by said kids.) My part of the day was never exactly pampering - and I resented that the rest of the day was then stressful as we were splitting visit times with both families. After maybe 4/5 years of this I instituted the Mother's Day for or mom's the day before focus - or at my husband's choice - on his own with the kids. My selfish if you want to call it feeling was that I had the more stressful/in need of some pampering time of motherhood as I had the real demands of the 'job' at that point and I deserved that  DAY of to myself!! I felt mitigated in taking our Mom's out of the actual day of partly because we both have several siblings and some of these on each side have no children so no 'primary' mothers/fathers to recognize (so I knew each got some attention each day. I don't judge you OP - I am usually a 'go ahead and take care of others' kind of person [/quote]

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