JFF- What Are Your Mothers Day Plans

We normally all get together and do a bbq with the family.

However, this year will be different! My kids and I will pack up in the car and drive to OBX for the week! My husband is short on leave so he has to stay home until the end of the week, but we'll hit the road early on Sunday - hopefully - to be there in time to enjoy the weather and house. This is all homework permitting on my end.

The Botanical Gardens have a Mother's Day plant sale that we really enjoy.
We'll probably get another tree and plant it in the front yard.

Eh...I think people expect WAY too much on a hallmark holiday. To me, it's any other day. Why create a day for what should happen EVERY day...appreciation for what you do. What REALLY makes me sad, is that a day has to be set aside for showing appreciation of mothers.

I think it's a silly holiday, just like Valentines Day and all the other money making card created holidays. Just my opinion, though.

Pretty much six hours on the road driving back from my older daughter's graduation.

Then again, two down, two to go!

I kind of feel sorry for Troy cause he is trying to think of something special before we leave for home but knows nothing about Cincinnati. I keep telling him just don't ask me to do laundry and we are good. :)

I don't know yet, but I'm sure our plans will revolve around my MIL, as usual.

My boys and I will meet my Mom at church and then go someplace for breakfast. Then we will go to the plant ladies house and buy all our flowers and go home and fill up my planters :) my annual m.day routine.

I have the gifts/cards ready to be mailed out to his Mom (she lives in MT) and step-Mom (she'll spend the day with her 2 daughters).

My husband works all day...I am sure he'll make me something yummy for dinner when he gets home though and he will most likely have some gift and a nice card for the boys to give me in the morning.

Wow - that would have been fun! I found out last night that I'm hosting my MIL and my own Mom who are both in nursing homes. While I'm getting really tired of always being the one who has to have the gatherings at my house (more acdessible by wheelchair) I have to remind myself that we don't know how many more Mother's Days we'll have the old girls with us. Both are in negative emotional places and are trying on my patience - but there will be Mother's Days in the future that my now-teens will treat me well and I'll miss my mom and MIL. Oh well... Enjoy yours!

Well, I am currently picking out things for my mom and MIL...oh wait....I'm supposed to get something/relax too? Why the HELL didn't anyone tell me?

I plan on doing absolutely nothing. I'm not even gonna get dressed!

I don't have expectations for the day.. We do things for each other during the year and don't rely on 1 day to be nice or special.

We do have a tradition of going to our Country Club Mother's Day brunch. It is the the best brunch of the year at the club and something we all look forward to.

After brunch, we'll just hang out at home, maybe watch some golf and will probably need a nap!

I am sending my mom some very nice body creme like I got at Christmas. It is L'Occataine, does not have a strong scent and boy does it make your skin feel great! I know she'll love it.

I'm not doing anything for my mother - she has been estranged and living in China for years.

My daughter is in college and works in a restaurant so she will be working hard making tons of cash! No need to celebrate on that specific day, fortunately my 18 year old daughter still likes to hang out with me so we always have special times. She is taking me down to an Angels baseball game later in the week for my birthday though :)

Not sure yet, but if the world doesnt revolve around my mother in law that day she will have a temper tantrum.

Can you tell how excited I am?

**Ha Julie, I read your answer after I wrote mine! lol! You and I should hang out on mother's day! hehe!

We are going to picnic at our lake. The Pacific Symphony Orchestra will be playing and the annual regatta will be going on. I'm going to be using my birthday tickets for a free housecleaning that my husband gave me, too. :)

I plan to sit around and watch the family do ALL the housework and then take me out to a restaurant of my choice for dinner.

This is MY plan - who knows (cares - lol!) what they have planned!

None yet, I don't even know what date it is! We usually have dinner at our house but maybe we will all go out to eat. Its only me, hubs, our kids and my mom. I guess it depends on what date it is and if we have the kids that weekend or not. Regardless, its pretty low key. Hubby usually gets me something nice, the kids make me a card or picture or something and we get my mom something as well and we get together for lunch.

Seeing the family could be good....and college graduation is a big deal! Yay!
Hope y'all have fun.

Since I'll have just returned home from Disney World on 5/6, I don't expect much of anything that requires money for 5/13. I'm expecting we'll have breakfast at home with Chef Jeremy (he always makes a special breakfast on Mother's Day), then church, then a nap for all, and after nap we'll probably go to the beach, weather permitting. Every weekend, there is at least one day on the beach from now through August if the weather is decent. Free entertainment. :) This past Saturday, a big pod of dolphins swam in where we were, about 20-30 feet away! It was awesomeness. That would be a great day for me: breakfast, church, nap, family fun at the beach. Simple and doable.
I do think my husband is planning on getting me a new lens for my camera though. He keeps asking questions, and has asked me to show him the lenses I have. I don't know if it's a mother's day thing, but I expect a lens will show up between now and Christmas.
For my mom and mil: I'm sending them pictures of the boys, cards from us, and flowers delivered to my mil and chocolate to my mom.

The thing is, on Mother's Day, it is always *me* doing everything anyway just like every day. So it is not really a "special" day.
And, we spend our day, doing something for my Mom/Grandma. Otherwise she gets irked.
And even if it is a "combo" type thing (me and her), then it is me that is usually doing everything anyway. Again.

No one else seems to "plan" anything. I plan things for my Mom.
My kids can't very well drive me and take me out themselves.
Hubby doesn't plan ahead very well, per occasions.
Last minute or as an afterthought more like.

My MIL lives elsewhere. So glad.

I have no idea. I just let my family figure that out. They usually do something cute in the morning, give me home-made gifts, (my favorite) and serve me breakfast in bed. So sweet.

My husband treats me like a queen every day, so I don't get too excited about mother's day. He always does something for me, but I usually make it more for my Mom.

I always request bfast in bed. I don't care where the bfast is from...I don't even care if its a plain donue, or where I am, as long as I don't have to get out of bed and as long as it includes a fresh cup of coffee. I know, I am lazy :)

Have fun in Amarillo...I heard its still cold up there! Blessings to you as you remember your own mother.

What I want is to spend the day in my room reading and getting takeout (no responsibilities :) But what I'll GET is the day at the baseball fields watching my oldest play ball. Still a pretty good day !

I'm in the middle of a divorce so I'm sure that it will be the same nothing it was when we were together. I have never been treated to anything special by him without me pushing, cajoling, begging or threatening, which totally ruins the point. Oh, well, maybe when my kids are bigger they will do something on their own.
I'm really just glad to have my wonderful girls after all the difficulties and the long wait to have kids. (I was almost 40 when they were born)

I want to go to the local state park with my hubby and kids. I want to pack lunches and lay on a blanket and read. The kids can run and play for hours :)

My plans?....get something in the mail to my mom and MIL early enough to put it out of my mind...and forget about it so that on Sunday when it's business as usual at our house I can try not to be too disappointed with the usual...hubby has no plan, hubby doesn't care to acknowledge how lucky he and my daughter are to have me to the point that MAYBE he will get up some time around lunch run to the store with some lame excuse of needing something and MAYBE bring home a card for my daughter to sign on the front porch and then walk in to "surprise" me. Sigh..... Making him a unique mini album of pictures of just the two of them together every year for father's day, making his favorite food and picking up something he needs like a new golf glove doesn't inspire him to think about trying harder the next year, nor did buying a shirt for myself at Walmart, writing on the bag "with all my love and appreciation ...Happy Mother's Day" and leaving it on his desk....nor did buying the recordable Mother's day album @Hallmark on clearance AFTER Mother's day and TELLING him how much I would love it if he selected pictures with our daughter and helped her record something on it.....it is STILL in the bag, has been moved from the coffee table to the magazine basket, had the original date written on the bag and moved it back to the coffee table a whole year later...to find it back in the magazine basket...where it presently is 3 years later..no pictures, no message. This is what I will be calling the 9th Annual Non Celebration of the Mother.

funny, my mom just asked me about our plans...my son just started his first job (yay!) as a dishwasher so I'm pretty sure he's working.

Honestly, my favorite part of Mother's Day is my daugher makes me breakfast in bed! Fortunately, she can cook so its a good thing - last year was French toast, fruit and juice. I'm hoping for this again.

Happy Mother's Day to all!

Hubby will probably leave a gift from the kids on the counter since he won't be home until close to their bedtime. Church with my mom, dad, sister and two kids then a quick lunch before Mom/Dad go to the theater. Sister and the kids and I will go home and chill and then meet up with MIL and family somewhere to eat (depending on time/place, we may not go since my almost 3 year old is not so much fun at restaurants right now and I KNOW on Mother's Day there will be a wait!).

We are celebrating the week before (next sunday) because of my husband's work scheadule. We are going to the cincy zoo. My daughter is to young to really go with us (3mnths) but my almost 3 yr old has been talking about "zoo babies" the past week. Every morning when he gets up he asks "see zoo babies now?"

We'll be driving the other half of the trip to MN on Mother's Day. We'll get in around dinner time, so I guess we can take his Stepmom out for dinner.

My mom died 8 years ago, so I'll plant some marigolds (her favorite) this next weekend, and have my girls make cards for the three women they have as grandmothers.

Looking forward to getting a mini-vacation out of my husband's business trip (to MN), and visiting friends and family we left last Aug.

I don't need more than my daughters telling me they love me. I feel blessed to even have my miracle babies. :)

My mom usually takes precedence as her birthday is always within a day or two of mother's day, but that's okay with me. I'm really excited this year because we got her tickets to Wicked! As for me, the kids usually make some cards and a special snack. I just like the extra hugs!! Still not sure what to do for my MIL in FL, though. Hubby's not too good at this stuff so I try to take care of it for him.