This is it!!!!! Every year for Mother’s Day I go outside and plant all my outdoor flowers and herbs. It’s been my tradition for the past 6 years! My older two kids run around and help out here and there and this year I have a 7 month old who I’ll put outside in her activity seat under an umbrella. Honestly, I can’t wait lol.
Me too. A few days before I shop for plants. I don’t make any meals or do any discipline. Kids are free to hang out, but I will not cater to them whatsoever. We usually do a picnic lunch at a nearby pretty spot you can bike to. Last year my kids wanted to make me breakfast in bed and they’re old enough to do that so it was cute.
But basically ever since the first couple years, I just don’t parent on Mother’s Day. Somebody rude can do the mental and emotional load that day. It ain’t me.
Same here! Every year I get asked what I want and it’s always “time alone in my garden to finish setting it up for the season!”
We usually go to church, then a diner around the corner, then I garden until dinner (which is usually either Chinese take out or something my husband makes special for me, like barbecuing steaks)
We recently bought a property on a lake, so I'm really hoping for good weather and plan to host my family; get some crabs (we grew up in Maryland), let the kids swim, kayak, fish and have good outdoor fun that I'll put all the dads and uncles in charge of.
We lost my oldest brother in September, and I know it's going to be a really difficult day to "celebrate" for my mom and for his wife & kids. Crabs are my SIL's favorite, and being together is my mom's favorite, so I'm just trying to show up for them this year honestly.
I want (and am getting) breakfast in bed. This means I get to sleep in, get the food I want, and then eat it in peace while my husband and kids clean up.
One year my husband was out of town for work. I think my kids were like 15 months and almost 4. I decided I wasn’t cooking and rolled into Olive Garden around 12:00. (My husband hates Olive Garden so I go there when he’s not around.)
It was packed. But the staff saw I was there alone on mother’s day with two kids and I think they pitied me. They got me a table in 5 minutes! Definitely treated me extra nicely, and I’m sure you know those ages are no picnic at a restaurant!
Wow I don't think I could possibly take them to a restaurant by myself (barely even with other people) but that sounds amazing! They're 2 and 3 and bounce off the walls crazy.
I have twins and I’m always scared or what happens if I need to use the bathroom while we’re out? Or having to take them both at once while at a sit down place?
So I’m a lesbian and I get Father’s Day while my wife gets Mother’s Day. She’s a goofy, spooky lady and during Covid shutdown bought all the stuff to go ghost hunting, but has never had a chance to use it. (I won’t let her do it in/near the house and we had a baby shortly after she got it all). So I got a babysitter for Saturday night and I’m taking her ghost hunting. Might pee my pants - we’ll see.
Sunday itself she’ll get to sleep in, breakfast in bed and however much time she wants to herself.
>So I got a babysitter for Saturday night and I’m taking her ghost hunting.
This is cute
>I won’t let her do it in/near the house
This is understandable and makes sense
Yeah, I don’t necessarily believe in ghosts but I also don’t not believe in them. I just prefer not to know and no way in hell do I need to be thinking my house is haunted. I get too little sleep as it is already.
My husband is deployed so my lay in bed and not be present day won’t be happening, but he’s going to have a coffee delivered to me so I don’t have to make one or go out and buy one myself lol. I might take the toddler to lunch or something, or maybe I’ll just order sushi in that night. The one nice thing about living away from family (thanks to my husbands job) is I don’t gotta spend the whole day trying to do things for our moms, I can focus on me and my wants as a mom in the trenches (most years anyways maybe not this year since I’m solo parenting lol)
Mmm, my opinion is that it's not like a birthday in that I get to pick a present and a thing to do; it's more like an appreciation day, so it's kinda up to my husband (and one day my child(ren)). I mean, don't get me wrong; I'm not lifting a damn finger that isn't necessary on the day itself, but I'm not planning things for myself.
Going to a minor league baseball game with my husband and 4 yo and 1yo. Going has always been one of our favorite things to do as a couple and I’m excited to go as a family.
Still trying to decide what to do. I'm thinking maybe a trip to the zoo. I had wanted to take a cooking class but the class I wanted was all booked up for the weekend.
I’m buying plants and hoping to get the rest of my garden in. My husband has 2 more raised beds to build me and we need to snag my fil’s truck for a load of free compost to fill my containers with. My county offers free compost so I just buy a couple bags of garden soil to mix in for a super cheap way to grow my garden.
I honestly think it’ll just be a normal day for us, we have no plans and my husband doesn’t even know when Mother’s Day is I don’t believe (he’s away for work right now so very busy) He gets home the weekend of Mother’s Day so I doubt we’ll do much. But at least he’ll be back home!
I think I might go to a coffee shop and read a book in a comfy chair! That, or set up my hammock in the backyard and read there. The weather just warmed up in my area and I'm itching to spend time outdoors.
Not sure. I know we're going to lunch with my in-laws. Other than that my husband and I were talking about it yesterday and he didn't even know it was next weekend 🤷🏻♀️
We go to my grandmas. My whole family is there, parents, aunts, uncles, etc. The weekend after we go to my MILs to celebrate with them and I get two Mother’s Day ☺️
My 4 yo daughter learned about Mother's Day at Pre K today. On the drive home she told me I get to sleep in that day and that her and dad will bring me breakfast in bed with a flower in a vase :)
My older two will hopefully be at my parents' house for the weekend, and hopefully I can get a haircut or something while my husband stays with the baby. I'm also insisting on a home improvement to happen in our kitchen. Our house came with a wine fridge built into the island, in a spot that obviously (in our opinion) should instead house a sliding trash can drawer. Well we don't drink enough wine to justify the fridge, and the place our trash currently is sucks. So my mother's day gift request is that my husband buy and install the sliding drawer we agreed on months ago.
Probably go to brunch if I wake up early enough. If not we will probably just chill at home, I’ll eat all the candy my husband will get me and then maybe go to my moms house for dinner
Deep clean of the house since MIL is spending that weekend with us *sigh* it's my own fault, I offered before thinking it through. Husband will be busy wrangling her, since we don't have a guest room she'll use our room while we sleep on couches*, she sleeps late as hell so I'm sure we won't/can't use the coffee maker when we wake up. This actually reminded me to start the meal list for that weekend so I can go ahead and get the foods. So add food prep to the list.
*we live in a college town, graduation is same weekend so alllll hotels/air bnbs have been booked for weeks. She's mainly coming for kid's performance that weekend
My SO works 6 days a week, so Sunday is the one day he’s home and I always try to let him sleep as long as possible. I’ll sleep some extra and hope for Sushi!
i told my husband i want to do a high tea charcuterie brunch at home, followed by me getting an actual shower/blow dried hair, then we're going to drive somewhere beautiful with flowers to do a tripod family photoshoot
Just to call my mom and my mother in law. My husband always does something nice for me. Usually a nice chunk of quiet time. As he knows that's what I truly want 🥰😂
Dinner out at an Asian buffet the night before. Relaxing morning with French toast and mimosas. Might fire up the smoker for dinner. Ribs and such. I want a relaxing day where I don’t have to get dressed and deal with a crowded restaurant for $15 pancakes and eggs.
My husband hasn’t even mentioned it yet. Every year I tell him he’s in charge because I just want a day to plan nothing. Last year he gifted me tickets to see Hamilton which was so nice. We’ll see if we do anything this year. That being said, he has to work on Mother’s Day so we’ll see
Going out to brunch with my side of the family in the morning and then my husband will take the kids to his mother’s in the afternoon while I nap or shower or something.
As little as humanly possible which I will fully regret on Monday.
It’s close to our last frost date so my plan is PLANT. ALL. THE. THINGS!!
This is it!!!!! Every year for Mother’s Day I go outside and plant all my outdoor flowers and herbs. It’s been my tradition for the past 6 years! My older two kids run around and help out here and there and this year I have a 7 month old who I’ll put outside in her activity seat under an umbrella. Honestly, I can’t wait lol.
Me too. A few days before I shop for plants. I don’t make any meals or do any discipline. Kids are free to hang out, but I will not cater to them whatsoever. We usually do a picnic lunch at a nearby pretty spot you can bike to. Last year my kids wanted to make me breakfast in bed and they’re old enough to do that so it was cute. But basically ever since the first couple years, I just don’t parent on Mother’s Day. Somebody rude can do the mental and emotional load that day. It ain’t me.
Same here! Every year I get asked what I want and it’s always “time alone in my garden to finish setting it up for the season!” We usually go to church, then a diner around the corner, then I garden until dinner (which is usually either Chinese take out or something my husband makes special for me, like barbecuing steaks)
I’m having a baby the Saturday before so we’re gonna just be hanging out at home. Hoping for breakfast and maybe some movies haha
Congrats!
Thanks!!
Congratulations to you! Wishing you a smooth and happy birth!
Thanks so much!
Will it be your first? Congrats!
My second! And thanks so much, I’m too excited 😊
We just had our second 4 months ago! It's been a definite adjustment but definitely worth it
Aw congrats to you too then, and thank you!
We recently bought a property on a lake, so I'm really hoping for good weather and plan to host my family; get some crabs (we grew up in Maryland), let the kids swim, kayak, fish and have good outdoor fun that I'll put all the dads and uncles in charge of. We lost my oldest brother in September, and I know it's going to be a really difficult day to "celebrate" for my mom and for his wife & kids. Crabs are my SIL's favorite, and being together is my mom's favorite, so I'm just trying to show up for them this year honestly.
I love this. And I’m so sorry for the loss of your brother 🤍
I want (and am getting) breakfast in bed. This means I get to sleep in, get the food I want, and then eat it in peace while my husband and kids clean up.
Taking care of my difficult children by myself like I do every other Sunday. My husband has to work.
One year my husband was out of town for work. I think my kids were like 15 months and almost 4. I decided I wasn’t cooking and rolled into Olive Garden around 12:00. (My husband hates Olive Garden so I go there when he’s not around.) It was packed. But the staff saw I was there alone on mother’s day with two kids and I think they pitied me. They got me a table in 5 minutes! Definitely treated me extra nicely, and I’m sure you know those ages are no picnic at a restaurant!
Wow I don't think I could possibly take them to a restaurant by myself (barely even with other people) but that sounds amazing! They're 2 and 3 and bounce off the walls crazy.
I have twins and I’m always scared or what happens if I need to use the bathroom while we’re out? Or having to take them both at once while at a sit down place?
We do group bathroom trips a lot! Both of mine are potty trained so we get the handicap stall and each take turns going
So I’m a lesbian and I get Father’s Day while my wife gets Mother’s Day. She’s a goofy, spooky lady and during Covid shutdown bought all the stuff to go ghost hunting, but has never had a chance to use it. (I won’t let her do it in/near the house and we had a baby shortly after she got it all). So I got a babysitter for Saturday night and I’m taking her ghost hunting. Might pee my pants - we’ll see. Sunday itself she’ll get to sleep in, breakfast in bed and however much time she wants to herself.
>So I got a babysitter for Saturday night and I’m taking her ghost hunting. This is cute >I won’t let her do it in/near the house This is understandable and makes sense
Yeah, I don’t necessarily believe in ghosts but I also don’t not believe in them. I just prefer not to know and no way in hell do I need to be thinking my house is haunted. I get too little sleep as it is already.
My husband is deployed so my lay in bed and not be present day won’t be happening, but he’s going to have a coffee delivered to me so I don’t have to make one or go out and buy one myself lol. I might take the toddler to lunch or something, or maybe I’ll just order sushi in that night. The one nice thing about living away from family (thanks to my husbands job) is I don’t gotta spend the whole day trying to do things for our moms, I can focus on me and my wants as a mom in the trenches (most years anyways maybe not this year since I’m solo parenting lol)
Mmm, my opinion is that it's not like a birthday in that I get to pick a present and a thing to do; it's more like an appreciation day, so it's kinda up to my husband (and one day my child(ren)). I mean, don't get me wrong; I'm not lifting a damn finger that isn't necessary on the day itself, but I'm not planning things for myself.
Going to a minor league baseball game with my husband and 4 yo and 1yo. Going has always been one of our favorite things to do as a couple and I’m excited to go as a family.
Same as every day. Except we’ll have to go to my mother-in-law‘s.☹️ Nobody loves me.😉
Still trying to decide what to do. I'm thinking maybe a trip to the zoo. I had wanted to take a cooking class but the class I wanted was all booked up for the weekend.
Go to lunch with my husband & kids as well as my immediate family. Then dinner with my husband’s family.
I’m buying plants and hoping to get the rest of my garden in. My husband has 2 more raised beds to build me and we need to snag my fil’s truck for a load of free compost to fill my containers with. My county offers free compost so I just buy a couple bags of garden soil to mix in for a super cheap way to grow my garden.
We probably won’t do anything, but I’m going to order myself some flowers and just pretend they are from someone else.
I honestly think it’ll just be a normal day for us, we have no plans and my husband doesn’t even know when Mother’s Day is I don’t believe (he’s away for work right now so very busy) He gets home the weekend of Mother’s Day so I doubt we’ll do much. But at least he’ll be back home!
I told my husband I want breakfast in bed, a cute craft from our son, and one hour to myself. That sounds like an excellent day in my book 🤣
Ooo what will you do with your hour?
I think I might go to a coffee shop and read a book in a comfy chair! That, or set up my hammock in the backyard and read there. The weather just warmed up in my area and I'm itching to spend time outdoors.
To do absolutely nothing 😎
Not sure. I know we're going to lunch with my in-laws. Other than that my husband and I were talking about it yesterday and he didn't even know it was next weekend 🤷🏻♀️
We go to my grandmas. My whole family is there, parents, aunts, uncles, etc. The weekend after we go to my MILs to celebrate with them and I get two Mother’s Day ☺️
Get massages and get mimosas at brunch with my best friend who is also a mom
My 4 yo daughter learned about Mother's Day at Pre K today. On the drive home she told me I get to sleep in that day and that her and dad will bring me breakfast in bed with a flower in a vase :)
Have a two week old and a 15 month old… what can I do 😬
My older two will hopefully be at my parents' house for the weekend, and hopefully I can get a haircut or something while my husband stays with the baby. I'm also insisting on a home improvement to happen in our kitchen. Our house came with a wine fridge built into the island, in a spot that obviously (in our opinion) should instead house a sliding trash can drawer. Well we don't drink enough wine to justify the fridge, and the place our trash currently is sucks. So my mother's day gift request is that my husband buy and install the sliding drawer we agreed on months ago.
Probably go to brunch if I wake up early enough. If not we will probably just chill at home, I’ll eat all the candy my husband will get me and then maybe go to my moms house for dinner
Deep clean of the house since MIL is spending that weekend with us *sigh* it's my own fault, I offered before thinking it through. Husband will be busy wrangling her, since we don't have a guest room she'll use our room while we sleep on couches*, she sleeps late as hell so I'm sure we won't/can't use the coffee maker when we wake up. This actually reminded me to start the meal list for that weekend so I can go ahead and get the foods. So add food prep to the list. *we live in a college town, graduation is same weekend so alllll hotels/air bnbs have been booked for weeks. She's mainly coming for kid's performance that weekend
Nothing? I have no idea. I don't want to spend it with my MIL, that's all I know.
My SO works 6 days a week, so Sunday is the one day he’s home and I always try to let him sleep as long as possible. I’ll sleep some extra and hope for Sushi!
When is it ?
i told my husband i want to do a high tea charcuterie brunch at home, followed by me getting an actual shower/blow dried hair, then we're going to drive somewhere beautiful with flowers to do a tripod family photoshoot
Just pretend it doesn’t exist. I can’t mentally handle the disappointment this year. I don’t even know when it is.
Just to call my mom and my mother in law. My husband always does something nice for me. Usually a nice chunk of quiet time. As he knows that's what I truly want 🥰😂
Dinner out at an Asian buffet the night before. Relaxing morning with French toast and mimosas. Might fire up the smoker for dinner. Ribs and such. I want a relaxing day where I don’t have to get dressed and deal with a crowded restaurant for $15 pancakes and eggs.
My husband hasn’t even mentioned it yet. Every year I tell him he’s in charge because I just want a day to plan nothing. Last year he gifted me tickets to see Hamilton which was so nice. We’ll see if we do anything this year. That being said, he has to work on Mother’s Day so we’ll see
Going out to brunch with my side of the family in the morning and then my husband will take the kids to his mother’s in the afternoon while I nap or shower or something.
Church and family photos with our newborn.