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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do want a day to celebrate me, but I don't care when it is. So long as my DH and kids have planned a day/meal to celebrate me, I'm ok with going to MIL/mother's to celebrate them. In my MIL's case, she will certainly choose an activity I do NOT want to do on Mother's Day. So, I tell myself this isn't my Mother's Day and I'm 100% fine with it. I don't need to cause a scene. Now, if DH/kids tried to act like MIL's mother's day activity was also MY Mother's Day, I would have a big issue.

As an aside - I would stop managing her gift. That's for DH to do. In our family, DH does all the mothers day cards/gifts and I do all the Father's Day ones (ie, DH does not need to coordinate anything for father's day). [/quote]

Perfect response.

I didn't grow up celebrating Mother's Day, so I didn't care that we weren't making a big fuss over me, but I didn't love having to wrangle little kids to see my MIL. I used Saturday as my day of self-indulgence, and then we did Sunday Mother's Day with the ILs[/quote]

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