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What did you get for Mother’s Day?
Before every gift-giving holiday, be it Valentine’s Day, Christmas or Hanukkah, the media always provides predictions — what we want, what we don’t want, how we’ll return what we got that we don’t want, how much we’ll spend, how much we spent last year, how gift cards are “the new black,” etc., etc.
But what we often don’t follow through with are the two most obvious questions: 1) What did you get? and 2) Did you like it?
Did you get a homemade card? A tissue-paper corsage? Get breakfast in bed or get taken out for dinner, or did you have to do the cooking (and the dishes)?
I’ll go first: I had a rough weekend — Hubby and 9-year-old were on a father-daughter campout from Friday to Sunday, and older son came down sick with some type of virus that had him on the couch moaning with pain and feverish, so I played nursemaid to him, placater to toddler and also volunteered at a school fundraiser. By Sunday afternoon I was tired and snarly. I even left Hubby a mountain of dishes as penance for his abandonment in my “time of need.”
But he saved the day in true Mighty Mouse fashion: He poured me a mimosa and presented me with a half-dozen roses and a basket full of stress-relief aromatherapy products from Bath & Body. Then we tripped off for dinner at Mimi’s Cafe, located in the suburbs of that faux city The Greene. All in all a good day, not counting our pitifully sick 12-year-old.
I’m offering you a forum if you want to praise or pan your partner’s/children’s picks. Speak now or forever hold your peace!
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By Amy
May 15, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this
I rec’d a scrapbook page from my daughter and mother showing lots of pictures from the last 10 years which would bring a tear to any mother’s eye! I am so proud to be a mother! xoxo amy