Posted by:
Janine Anderson on
May 6, 2008 at
9:20AM CST
This weekend is my first Mother's Day as an actual mother. Last year, I was incubating. We went out for brunch at one of our old Milwaukee haunts, something we knew wouldn't be happening quite as much once the baby arrived.
It was kind of odd, being in that restaurant as a couple, surrounded by intergenerational diners. But it was nice. We got to dream, to look forward to the days when we could take our son there, years from now, when he had table manners, to share it with him.
This weekend, luck of the draw, I'm scheduled to work. So we aren't making any real plans for Sunday. We've invited my parents to town for dinner on Saturday, and my husband will likely see his mother during the day on Sunday, and she'll get some time with her son and grandson.
I'm sure we'll do something at least a little special on Sunday night. Maybe I'll get dinner cooked for me, so I can snuggle the little guy. Maybe there will be a card, or flowers, or a special hug.
If I had the day free, I know what I'd want: Time with my little family. Just the three of us, doing something fun. It's finally nice out. I want to show the baby the world -- the flowers blooming in the back yard, the crazy dog down the street, the monkeys at the zoo.
I would like a chrome rear brake cylinder. My cover is chrome but not the bottom part. I already checked it out, it is $162.89. It is really the only thing on my bike that is not chrome (except the frame of course).
I want what I want every year. I always wish for my children to wish me a Happy Mothers' Day on their own. Just to hear them say it and mean it would be great. A card would be a bonus - a gift bought by them. My daughter, now 17, is pretty good at this. My son, 19, has never been the most sentimental person. I ususally end up hearing my daughter reminding him or asking him if he got me anything, to which he will end up asking - "is that today?" Oh well.
I work f/t outside the house and I have 4 children (ages 10 and under and 2 are four year old twins in addition, my 7 yo has autism)...I would LOVE someone to come in and clean my house...top to bottom, inside and out. Get rid of the junk and fix the broken things that I worry about too often!
I spend a lot of time with my kids and it is stuff like the above that often gets overlooked, but it would give me a sense of > if it was all taken care of!
Nine times out of ten, trinkets and baubles end up in the basement and then a few years later a rummage sale. During holidays, birthdays and so on, a gift is often judged by the rest if it will be used or become a basement trophy for Mom. I do one of two things.
An outdoor flowering plant she gets some enjoyment out of before she kills it in the Fall, or tools. Seriously, honetly, tools. She turns 80 in a few weeks. Even so, for Xmas she got a fancy sander with the triangle head. A few years ago she got a light weight circle saw as her old one had gotten too heavy to manage easily.
Although it's getting harder to work with her hands she still likes to futz around. True story. About eight years ago she asked for my heat gun. When asked why, she said never mind why. Okay mom. I show up a few weeks later, and she had her garage 3/4 stripped of all paint and repainted. She was just going to strip the gutters and got carried away. I think she was 72.
What do you gt my mom? It better not be a trinket or bauble.
My mother died in 1992 when I was young. When my mother was dying she said ."Flowers are for the living. I will no the at my grave." So in her honor I give flowers to friends of mine that are moms.
We will be going to Jackpot for mothers day. A lovely little vacation for me, and birthday gift for hubby (his is the 9th) It will be the first time in over a decade that my mom in law will have both of her kids under the same roof, and the first time ever that she will see all of her grandchildren at the same time.
My wife in that cute little maid outfit I bought her, cleaning up the house. Well acttually, she doesn't have to clean that day as I did the day b4, just for her.
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