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SHE bought ME flowers and a lovely card.
Oh, the joy that comes from the pain. My Mom was my Mom again. I know it won't last, but I will treasure it today.
im with sifrina, people can cram their expectations..
I gave my mother’s day gift to her earlier this week (they are 20 minutes from my house so I see them regularly), had a nice visit that day, yet she probably forgot what I got her, and then I saw my parents again yesterday after work (not a great visit as there was family stress, which I handled). Until very recently my parents lived on my block for over 10 years so boy did I see them a LOT, if not almost every day!!
Today my father is asking if I’m coming home early from my weekend trip to visit her for mother’s day tomorrow. I just said no, explaining that we aren’t coming back until late, that is why I gave her the mother’s day present early, and that I’ll see them next week.
I’m having a nice, peaceful weekend, which I really need for my sanity, so why must I be guilted in to cutting that short to see my parents on a specific Sunday in May? These kinds of expectations really suck…especially on the daughter and not the son.
Sorry - don't have any great ideas (besides going out of town LOL) but Pamstegman's brunch with mimosa idea sounded good! I'm sure whatever you do will be healthy and will feel right to you and your mother in that moment.
I told the home care people last week that im not going to tell a 90 yr old lady what to do and as long as I have my way no one else will either. of course that reinforced edna and now shes waving her bony little fist around like Mussolini. lol ..
She desperately wants to see my little house, ten minutes away, and last fall I had a friend lift her into the truck and drove her around the outside and down the back 40 but she fell asleep every five minutes and felt nauseous so we can't do that again.
All I can think of for mother's day is to take a lot of pictures in and around home and take my laptop down there to show her.
The main reason I am going at all is to take boxes of Mom's stuff that I can no longer store in my garage. Just happens to be mother's day weekend.
saw my youngest son a couple of nights ago. hes been hired full time by the engine machine shop and doing quite well . good for him. if my little gmc blows up ill have pistons crammed in it the size of dinner plates.
We'll do the normal thing -- go to church, then out to eat. She likes doing that. I've bought her a vintage porcelain rose brooch to wear and some sugar free candy I know she'll love. We'll go home so my brothers can call to wish her happy mother's day.
Surprise, surprise, my daughter just called and asked me out for brunch at a local fancy hotel - all the grandkids will be there. It should be very nice.