<p>From one dad to all the moms: </p>
<p>Have a great Mother’s Day. What you do is important and invaluable, and whether you hear about it on Mother’s Day from immediate family or not, what you do is appreciated.</p>
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<p>Happy mother’s day to all the mothers on CC. Many of us do not have the luxury of having all of our kids home for the mother’s day any more. This is the first year my D1 is not home, and I am sure it won’t be the last.</p>
<p>My husband is away on a business trip, so tomorrow it’s just going to be my D2 and myself. I am taking my mother out to dinner. I am lucky to still have a mother to take out to dinner. My D2 has let it slip daddy has something special for me, and D1 sent flowers home to me today.</p>
<p>My son decided to come home tonight for Mother’s Day tomorrow! I was surprised as he has an exam at medical school and would never have expected him to make the drive in, especially for a day.</p>
<p>I hope everyone has a nice day!</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful moms on these boards!</p>
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<p>I got you beat… husband away on business, and both daughters not living at home. It has the workings of being the laziest, restful Mother’s Day I’ve ever had!</p>
<p>I read a few days ago that the AVERAGE Mother’s Day spending this year will be “only” $124 per person. This is apparently down from last year’s $139.</p>
<p>We don’t spend any where near that in our house. What <em>do</em> people spend money on? </p>
<p>My daughter and I went to lunch yesterday, and to the lilac garden (where I bought 3 lilacs at $30 each), so if that counts, yes, I guess we did spent around $124 for both of us–but not per person, unless the $124 is actually “per mother.”</p>
<p>neither D is in the state , one isn’t even in this continent.
H is at work and I am a little sore after working in a dragon boat, yesterday. (we won our race- twice- while helping to clean up Lake Union)
But it was a lot of fun, I may join the team.
As for today I had high hopes of working in the yard- but bending over is gonna be tough
maybe I will go see the new trek movie.</p>
<p>A nice brunch, a small gift and a bouquet of flowers would easily run more than $124. Doesn’t seem excessive to me. </p>
<p>$124 divided by 365 days of mothering per year is…about 34 cents per day. I don’t <em>need</em> that spent on me–I’m pretty happy with a homemade card and a home-cooked breakfast–but I don’t think it merits an “oh my god what do you wasteful people spend your money on?” reaction either.</p>
<p>I did tell my daughters that if they want to give me flowers this year, they can dig the dandelions out of the front yard! :D</p>
<p>My family is great!!! They pulled off a surprise and my older s flew in this morning so the whole family is here!! Great, GREAT mothers day present!!! :D:D:D:D We picked up younger s from college Friday. Drove 7 1/2 hrs Thurs and then 7 1/2 back on Fri. Yesterday was younger s’s birthday, but sadly, DH and I had to drive 6 hrs each way to a funeral of the woman who essentially raised me from when I was 6 months old. She was like a second mother to me. (I really needed to be there. It was very important to me and to her family too). So today was going to be a tough mothers day, since I lost my mom 5 years ago, though I was certainly enjoying having DH and S#2 home, and we did get to ttake DS and his friend out for a birthday dinner last night.</p>
<p>This is a WONDERFUL surprise, AND, DH has to drive 6 hrs to Orlando today, and will now have DS#1 with him to accompany him on the ride (DS lives not too far from there). Loving this mothers day!</p>
<p>oh, teriwtt–
That sounds like my last years mothers day. If you recall, my sons HS and college graduations were on the same Saturday morning, a year ago this weekend. So older s and DH were at his college graduation and then packing up to come home. DS#2’s graduation was Sat (and his 18th bday had been Fri night) so he was off partying with friends. I feel your pain, but have plenty of mothers day joy to share this year, so am sending some cyber-happiness your way!!</p>
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<p>I’ll raise you one teriwtt. No husband 
and only D still at school. I just had a pint of ice cream for breakfast, and I’m not getting out of my pj’s today!</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day!</p>
<p>Oldest son got home for the summer Friday night – all the mother’s day present I need, but this morning he gave me a flat of impatiens for my front porch. Younger son got up this morning and made crepes (from Julia Child no less) for breakfast. Filled them with whipped cream and raspberries. I am supposed to be on a diet, but heck mother’s day only comes once a year! Total Cost: $18 and 2 pounds.</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day to the many great mom’s here.
Both of my kids are out of state/country. I’ll be taking my own mom to lunch. …bought her some lovely hand lotion and Godiva chocolates. My DH will be taking his mom to breakfast with similar gifts. We decided to separate the moms this year for their celebration and let each be with their own kid. It was simpler for us, and probably a treat for them.
Talked to my DS in South Africa and my DD in Boston, via Skype. I miss them both very much.</p>
<p>Not to put a downer on anyone on this beautiful day, but I have a request. Give a few minutes thought to any grown lady you might know who is childless–not by choice.</p>
<p>This is a very painful day for women who are involuntarily childless, and one they usually spend with frozen smiles pasted on their faces.</p>
<p>Someone I work with is childless, and I know they have been trying for many years. On Fri, I noticed some flowers on her desk. She told me it was from her husband for mother’s day.</p>
<p>The surprise I got today was a digital picture frame. It could store up to 1000 pictures. They put a lot of pictures in it, but still had a lot of room left, so I just loaded up whole bunch more pictures. I am bringing it in to work tomorrow. It was fun to go through pictures of the girls when they were little.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your mother’s day message.</p>
<p>I too wish all the amazing Mom’s on CC a very Happy Mothers Day. I know none of you would be here if you didn’t dearly love your child/ren:) I miss having all of mine with me today, but look forward to 2 1/2 weeks from now when we will be done with 2 collge graduations:) I am blessed!! We all are…I truly feel if we didn’t have very close relationships with our kids…we never would have found this site!!</p>
<p>Thank you. My mother-in-law called me from her daughter’s place before I had a chance to call her with the greeting (she’s from India and didn’t grow up with the day). My own mother died decades ago and it can be bothersome when there are all of the mother-daughter newspaper articles and I can’t even thank mine. Was also bothered back in the prekid/infertlity workup days, we quickly learned not to go out for brunch on that Sunday. Son called after finishing a final today- beyond expectations, especially when many more finals this week.</p>
<p>A most memorable Mother’s Day was when a fellow woman physician and I went with our very young sons to a park on the day- both of our husbands were on call and we needed to spend our day mothering instead of working or relaxing.</p>