Mother's Day - what are you all doing?

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<p>It is that time of the year again. As most of our kids are probably still in school or living away from home, how are some of you celebrating? Is your H or significant other taking you out? When my kids were young, all I wanted was to have a day to myself (H watching them for the day so I could have some peace and quiet). Now, I want nothing more than to have them with me and make as much noise as they want. </p>

<p>D1 is in NY and we may need to go to NY to take care of some personal stuff, we probably will get together with D1. D2 still has IB exams in school, so she will need to stay behind.</p>

<p>For all great Dads on CC, start planning.</p>

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<p>I forgot all about it. My H will be just home from a long trip. I’ll make him dinner and he can take me out on Father’s Day.</p>

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<p>It’s not this weekend is it?</p>

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<p>Watching my baby graduate from college! :slight_smile: Mother’s Day + Graduation Day on the same day = make your dinner reservations early.</p>

<p>oldfort, I also enjoyed those Mother’s Days when dh would take the kids to the playground and I could have the afternoon to myself. Though because of his work schedule, I often found myself like the mom on this week’s New Yorker cover: <a href=“http://www.newyorker.com/images/covers/2012/2012_05_07_p154.jpg[/url]”>http://www.newyorker.com/images/covers/2012/2012_05_07_p154.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^^^Ditto. Watching D1 graduate from UNC-CH with my parents in attendance as well. Mothers Day brunch at some restaurant my D chose for it’s “AWESOME” shrimp and grits. Can’t wait. :)</p>

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<p>saintfan, it’s May 13. :)</p>

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<p>DH and I will be helping S2 move his stuff out of his college rental house and into his summer internship living arrangement.</p>

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<p>This may sound selfish, but we were invited to DH’s cousin’s son’s first communion on Mother’s Day. I am not interested in going to a boring family function on Mother’s Day. Am I mean or justified? Discuss…</p>

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<p>We always BBQ at home, since it’s the worst possible day of the year to eat out. The guys fix dinner and we neighborhood ladies walk down the street to the local watering hole to imbibe in a few well deserved mothers day cocktails.</p>

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<p>It’s my D 13’s Bday…</p>

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<p>DS will be at after prom activities, so DH is taking me to brunch without any children. I will probably rope him onto a movie as well.</p>

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<p>Mothers day, is also H’s birthday this year, but it is also his weekend to work.
This upcoming weekend, we are going to see a play for his birthday.
I probably will talk to the kids on the phone & put some flowers on my moms headstone.</p>

<p>If the weather is decent, a BBQ sounds like a good idea. Maybe I will get h to go down to the beach after work if he isn’t too tired.</p>

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<p>I’ll be at a dog agility trial, one where cell phones don’t work (it’s in the Green River valley, way out in the country). Just me and my dogs (and a lot of other people and their dogs)… DH can get me takeout dinner when I get home, and the kids will have to send me text messages.</p>

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<p>Crazy day - flying back from Nashville after my daughter’s grad school graduation AND celebrating our youngest’s 19th birthday! We’ve made a late breakfast reservation and our flight is not until the afternoon so hopefully it will be laid back and enjoyable.</p>

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<p>Oh, May 13th we’ll be flying to London. I thought it might be this weekend.</p>

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<p>I too will be at D’s graduation…and we must have done something right in raising her because she actually made dinner reservations for both of us to celebrate “our” day…</p>

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<p>I better be at the spa. Just sayin’</p>

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<p>Another college graduation from these parts!!..</p>

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<p>College educated working son is coming home this weekend to finish clearing out his stuff before we make the downsizing move and it’s H’s birthday so the next weekend will be anticlimatic. My own mother died 30 years ago so I no longer get as upset about not having a mother around this time of year.</p>

<p>Congrats to all mothers with college graduations coming up! It is a wonderful milestone to have your child make it this far. Enjoy the weekend and kudos for having raised a child who chose college and finishing a degree. Sort of a completion of the parenting/child raising job- the future is up to them.</p>

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<p>Flying out to San Jose to visit DS for the weekend for the second year in a row - didn’t get to be with him for all four years of college (it was always his finals) so am indulging myself now. Last year DH also went; this year just me. At DS’s request, we’re going to the same fancy brunch place as last year. He promised to eat his money’s worth of food; I said I would do the same with mimosas.</p>