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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We spend mother’s day with extended family - MIL, SIL, and two nieces who are also mothers. You don’t stop being a mom when you have grandkids. We decided to make it work so we celebrated everyone. We are the ones who moved away so we travel to them. My mother has passed so we don’t celebrate with my side of the family. [/quote]

My family does this as well. Frankly, the older I get, the more I appreciate my mom for all the things she did for me that I didn’t see the magnitude of until I was an adult. Her status as a grandmother doesn’t change that she is my mother. Same for ILs. I mean, they done six decades of parenting compared to a few years. I don’t get the DCUM people who think once your kid marries off you’re undeserving and it has to be all about the new wife. [/quote]

Umm what? Does parenting a 40 year old even compare to parenting a 2 year old? Or waking up 5x a night with a newborn? I love my mom and she's my best friend, but her parenting is now just listening to me on the phone. Parenting is hard work for 18 years and then parents and children become friends. [/quote]

Oh right, your mom or *gasp* MIL never did those things, right? PLUS the advice and companionship as an adult? Let me put it to you bluntly: get over yourself![/quote]

Sure they did. And they got honored on those mothers days then. Are we supposed to thank our moms for wiping our asses 30 years ago every year? Didn't you feel appreciated then? Why do 70 year olds want appreciated for work they did decades ago? [/quote]

I am not 70–I’m 39 actually—but see me when YOU’RE 70 and let me know if you feel that your parenting ended at age 18. [/quote]

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