What are your Mother's Day Plans?

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

Mother's Day is coming up, and I was wondering how everyone was planning on spending the day.

It's definitely one of my favorite holidays. I get to go to one of my favorite places for breakfast, and then to my brother's house for dinner.

I don't even have to wash any dishes....I love it!!!!

[kapear Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close kapear]

Not totally sure yet. We'll go to church in the AM. The hubbies/daddies are making a pancake breakfast before the service. Who knows what dh and the kids will come up with after that. Maybe a trip to Coldstone for my free "Mom's" ice cream.

[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

DH and the kids usually give me breakfast in bed. So I have to stay in bed until they bring it.

The little ones get a kick out of bringing in the glass of juice, plate, etc.

Then we head off to church and we'll probably go out for lunch. Hmm, maybe yum cha this time.

Our extended family are all in Sydney so no family dinners.

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

Is it a big day in Australia too? Is the date the same as here or as in England? Restaurants are extremely crowded here. I believe it is the busiest day of the year for restaurants.

[falmouth3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close falmouth3]

Probably driving to Long Island to visit my mother, who's in a nursing facility to rebuild her strength after a visit to the hospital. She says she doesn't want any of us to travel to see her, but she is my mother , and it is Mother's day!

Sue

[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

Is it a big day in Australia too? Is the date the same as here or as in England? Restaurants are extremely crowded here. I believe it is the busiest day of the year for restaurants.

We celebrate it on the second Sunday of May.
Not sure if it's a big day where restaurants are concerned. Usually, it's a family day - barbecues at the park or at someone's house.

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

We'll go to my mother-in-law's. Her birthday is on May 14th so I'll bring a birthday cake also. We will probably order pizza so no one has to cook. I may do breakfast with my mom prior to this. I am blessed to still have 2 mothers.

[JoAnn Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoAnn]

I haven't heard from our daughter in S. Ft. Myers, but she usually takes DH & I out, or fixes dinner for us. Since DS lives with her, we get to see him too. Our middle DD lives in Key West, so I may, or may not, get a phone call from her. She is not very good with calls or cards Or, I'll call her and she'll say 'Ma, I was just going to call you".

[Kay H Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Kay H]

My ds and dil plus 2 grands (that we babysit often) take dh and me to Trump Marina Casino for a great brunch. Other ds and dil usually drop off a gift for me at my dh's work office (don't ask) and other dh and dil send a Harry and David's gift via UPS since they live in Virginia. Different strokes for different folks

[basham Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close basham]

Is it a big day in Australia too? Is the date the same as here or as in England? Restaurants are extremely crowded here.

Mother's Day dates are the same. Father's Day is different.
June US, Sept Oz. I think, but too many years in the US can blur things.

There is also a diffennce in that in the US husbands parcipate far more in Mother's day. At least that has been my experience.

To you Mothers, Happy Mother's day.

[JudyS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JudyS]

I haven't been able to become a mom, so ever since my mom passed away, I find Mother's Day to be pretty tough.

Actually, looking at my calendar, I'm supposed to be running a "work party" at my local community garden that day. Maybe I'll need to change the date, since I imagine a lot of people will be too busy to come.

[IreneLF Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close IreneLF]

As of now I am scheduled to work that day doing on-line scoring of English Language Learners' tests for the ETS.
Not terribly happy about all day (8:30-5) work on weekends (regardless of mother's day) but the work is so sporadic that I feel I should take it when offered as I want some $$.
They are notorious for canceling (when they don't get the requisite numbers of tests scanned to be scored) so maybe that will happen .
Regardless, family thinks they will be taking me out to dinner.

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

I like to do what I love on Mothers Day and so I will probably ride in the morning if the weather is good and go see MIL in the afternoon.

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

basham

There is also a diffennce in that in the US husbands parcipate far more in Mother's day. At least that has been my experience.

The woman in the US must be trained better.

Hey, we only get one day a year to make up for everything we do for them, all year long. We milk it for all it's worth.

[Carol C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Carol C]

Thanks, OP, for asking what we're doing next Sunday.

I'll be gathering with other women at noon in a public location, sharing a centering circle and reading Julia Ward Howe's original Mother's Day proclamation that denounces warmaking. (Julia Ward Howe is the woman who "invented" Mother's Day.) Also, we're going to ring bells at 1 PM to start a 5 min moment of silence to honor and remember the war dead around the world.

For those interested in the inspiring Mother's Day proclamation, here are some words still very much relevant today:

MOTHER'S DAY PROCLAMATION
Julia Ward Howe
27 May 1819 to 17 October 1910.

Arise, then, women of this day!

Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of fears!

Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,

"Our husbands shall not come to us reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.

"Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience.

"We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of the devasted earth a voice goes up with our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"

The sword of murder is not the balance of justice! Blood does not wipe out dishonor nor violence indicate possession.

As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as the means whereby the great human family can live in peace,

And each bearing after her own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.

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