Though I’m the least likely person to say so, as I have an inherent passive-aggressive resistance to externally imposed suggestions that if I fail to do something nice for the moms in my life today, then I’m a negligent daughter.
What’s nice though, is that while my kids will make no major fuss, my curmudgeonliness does not seem to have rubbed off on them too horribly!
So, while I can’t seem to say it sweetly, I wish all you mom-folk a lovely time today and always!
I plan to enjoy the heck out of it!
I’m not on-call.
The sun is coming out.
I am buying myself a bamboo flute.
I’m gonna phone MY mom, and chat (but I do that most weekends anyway.)
I did most of my housework yesterday!
So HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY !
Mary
I’ve had a great day already…I woke up to breakfast in bed! I also got flowers from MY mom (which I thought was really sweet…I’m the one who’s supposed to send HER flowers, which I always do, of course). My hubby bought me a new Epson 3-in-1 printer and my daughter got me a set of “It’s Happy Bunny” floor matts for my car that say “Driving Like a Psycho is Fun!” (The child knows me! But can you imagine the look on the face of the CHP who pulls me over and sees THOSE on the floor?). At church today, they’ll probably do something special at coffee hour…usually they do something like chocolate-dipped strawberries on Mothers Day. After that, I’m going to collapse on the couch and watch the “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” Mom’s Day Marathon on Bravo.
Happy Mothers Day!
Redwolf
This is a very bittersweet Mother’s Day for me. My only child, my beautiful daughter Becky, is getting married in less than two weeks and moving to another state. For an early Mother’s Day present on Friday evening she took me to the most exclusive restaurant in Salt Lake City - a French manor house type place complete with huge gorgeous grounds, river running through it, vineyard, flowers everywhere, peacocks strolling, and fabulous food in a stone-floored, wooden-beamed dining room, complete with a deep-toned grandfather clock chiming. It was a wonderful evening, one I’ll never forget.
Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and friends.
Susan
Thanks!!
I tend to look at every day as ‘mother’s day’, but it is nice to have the little extras at a particular time… though I detest the commercial exploitation of it.
I woke to a lovely little handmade card from my eldest, a vase full of wild flowers she collected this morning, and a hot sweet cup of java from my hubby… I’ve ordered my low D, and am getting to send a batch of my ‘babies’ to Jerry for tweeking… I’m happy, and it’s “Mothers’ Day”… that works!
HOpe all you mothers out there find cause to appreciate your position more today than yesterday.
hugs
I love that! I agree with her - the fact that she mothered a now mother is very significant… talk about a connection!
My own mom is gone, but I know that she appreciates my mothering… and I do look forward to seeing my own children as parents, and hope my future daughter in law will appreciate me… (hey, I can dream, can’t I?) 
My children took some of their money and went garage sale shopping…I got a plastic bird and a stuffed snoopy sitting on a plastic red dog house. What more could a mother want? 
Just to break the pattern of moms saying ‘hi’ to eachother, let me wish all the moms around here a very happy Mothers Day. 