It’s OK in our family. She gets a gift for her mother, now 91. I got a gift for my mother when she was still with us, the kids get the gifts for my wife. My wife is impressed that I remember her birthday, our anniversary, the anniversary of when I proposed, the anniversary of our first date, and the day we bought the house, for which she gets a gift proportional to the degree of the occasion. I did get her a gift when she was 7 months pregnant with our first, telling her our child told me what to get her by way of in vitro telekinesis.
If your children are 'small' and cannot shop for themselves, out of LOVE you should take them and buy her something. Don't be like my first husband (kid's father) and say, "Wait until they go to school and they'll make you something." So I went many years without a Mother's Day Card until they were old enough to make me one at school or go buy me one themselves. HIM HOWEVER, always got a Fathers Day Card because I made sure he did.
Thank you for saying that. George's daughter Victoria bought me a dozen of red roses and a card yesterday. The first roses I ever got on Mother's Day. And she is only my step-daughter. How nice of her.
Meanwhile I tell my husband every year NOT to buy anything for me, lol. He never listens. So this year after the usual protest from me I finished with "but since you will anyway, just buy me a bag of Swedish fish. So I now have 2 bags sitting here next to me.
A fake holiday driven by the need for sales. We can honor our parents on birthdays and Christmas. But once this thing got started, it can't be stopped because of the female need to compare themselves to others.
This is 100 percent true.
...you sound like you speak with the voice of experience...
...doggy winks....
It only takes once and you will never skip it again.
...pain will train...
Naw. Dead is unreasonable. Sleeping in a small shelter in the back yard with an arched door and a dog run is more likely.
u/#howl
https://youtu.be/xk5YhTqtAeU?si=qO98jB3llxX-Bf2G
My dad said that every year....
...it was a generational thing...
...women of that era were less prone to the idiosyncrasies that inhabit today's women's minds...
...man I had to give a lot of thought to how I worded that last sentence...
...wags tail cautiously...
Truth. My mother is based as hell.
That’s what I had kids for. They buy the gifts, but still spend the money I earned.
...that is some very thin ice to be standing on so late in the season Pilgrim...
...wags tail questioningly...
It’s OK in our family. She gets a gift for her mother, now 91. I got a gift for my mother when she was still with us, the kids get the gifts for my wife. My wife is impressed that I remember her birthday, our anniversary, the anniversary of when I proposed, the anniversary of our first date, and the day we bought the house, for which she gets a gift proportional to the degree of the occasion. I did get her a gift when she was 7 months pregnant with our first, telling her our child told me what to get her by way of in vitro telekinesis.
...doggy smiles...
Smart man.
If your children are 'small' and cannot shop for themselves, out of LOVE you should take them and buy her something. Don't be like my first husband (kid's father) and say, "Wait until they go to school and they'll make you something." So I went many years without a Mother's Day Card until they were old enough to make me one at school or go buy me one themselves. HIM HOWEVER, always got a Fathers Day Card because I made sure he did.
...God created women finer than men...
Thank you for saying that. George's daughter Victoria bought me a dozen of red roses and a card yesterday. The first roses I ever got on Mother's Day. And she is only my step-daughter. How nice of her.
Yep!
Meanwhile I tell my husband every year NOT to buy anything for me, lol. He never listens. So this year after the usual protest from me I finished with "but since you will anyway, just buy me a bag of Swedish fish. So I now have 2 bags sitting here next to me.
...good choice...
My late husband did this to me. I think it was just because he was a terrible gift giver.
Lmao
A fake holiday driven by the need for sales. We can honor our parents on birthdays and Christmas. But once this thing got started, it can't be stopped because of the female need to compare themselves to others.
...all "holidays" are "fake" except for Resurrection Sunday and the Fourth Of July...
...doggy winks...
...Fixed it...
...we need all the help we can get...
...indeed...
Please look up Anna Jarvis, the anti-war origins of Mother's Day, and the anti-commercialization stance on the holiday.
Enjoy a church service, carnation and a home cooked meal.