What are you doing on Mother's Day?

Nothing for mother. I checked with her social worker who said mother doesn't want anyone to know where she is, not even her daughters, which includes me, obviously. I don't know who she thinks is buying and arranging things for her, but whatever. The sw is the go between and that works for me. I will check her apartment when I go down to see if anyone has sent any mail or flowers and take them to the hospital. If her doc thinks it is better for her to not have them, I said let them decorate the halls.

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.

Brunch with family. I'll need a bucket of Mimosa's to survive

My mother (in a NH - Parkinsons, dementia & many strokes) is in very poor shape, unable to sit up or stand and mostly in bed or a wheelchair so there can be no taking her anywhere. Today the NH bus is going to Walmart. She's been twice before and I follow along in the truck in case she gets sick and needs to go back but, an avid shopper, this time she says she's just too tired.

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.

yup boni, someone who likes to swim upstream oughtta be permitted to , ya just turn the tide when they aren't looking..
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 ..

Mom IS going to Sisters and I am getting a few hours to myself. She actually remembered that Mothers Day is a particularly hard day, for mothers of deceased children. (I call it the club we pray no other mothers will join.)
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.

Hmm, I thought every day was mother's day. :)

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.

Dreading it!

Since Mom has been at her new IL apartment about a month now, my siblings and I are splitting up the weekend. I'm going with 2 brothers to see her Saturday. Sis and her family and the grand-kids are going Sunday. Celebrations in our house growing up were minimal. So I refuse to feel pressure to make the day that big a deal.

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.

I will go to church, take my wife out to eat and then we will drive to the cemetery in another city where my mother is buried to place some flowers. Then, I'll call my step-mother and wish her a happy mother's day.

My mom's community has brunch my sis, brother, daughter and I will go to. The day before, we are having a family BBQ to reveal the genders of my daughter's twins and mom will be there for that as well.