<p>My husband loves me up on mothers day. Flowers etc. My son usually does a hand made card and he is artistic so they come out creative. One year the hand made card included a coupon for breakfast including scrambled eggs and “a pair of toasts” now that he is older and not in town I would like a phone call. I know I would really appreciate an invitation during that phone call for say dinner and a movie or museum.</p>
<p>Anything NOT on this list:</p>
<p>[Best</a> of the worst from our Worst Mother’s Day Gift Contest](<a href=“http://www.consumersearch.com/blog/best-of-the-worst-from-our-worst-mothers-day-gift-contest]Best”>http://www.consumersearch.com/blog/best-of-the-worst-from-our-worst-mothers-day-gift-contest)</p>
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<p>S2 arranged to get me tickets to one of the Caps playoff games last weekend. Even more impressively, he got his brother and dad to help pay for it. :)</p>
<p>What I’d like: yard work done. But S1 will be home in a week, so it’s all good.</p>
<p>An e-card would be just fine.</p>
<p>Having a PI for next year would be heaven</p>
<p>I’d like Peace on Earth, so that my kids could live in worldwide harmony. But ha, that’s not a gift I’d get from the kids. Still, I can dream 
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<p>To be honest, I’d settle for having both kids go to church with me. One won’t go unless I FORCE her, so that’s no fun. She’ll probably stay home and make brunch for my mom and me. </p>
<p>I would like a card. But if not, I am delighted that MIL sent me one… as she does every year - “With love and admiration”.</p>
<p>I will have two of my three girls home and that will be great…and I usually don’t ask for anything , but I did put a hint out there for Sheryl Crow’s new cookbook :D</p>
<p>I really want someone to make me coffee and breakfast - nothing fancy just eggs and fruit. But my family wants to go out for an elaborate brunch…but I would just rather read the paper, drink a cup of coffee, plant my window boxes, and not have to cook or do the dishes.</p>
<p>I would love someone else to clean and organize the kitchen cabinets. It won’t last any longer then when I do it, but H and S would understand my frustration.</p>
<p>My daughter and her Fiancee cleaned out a space in our very cluttered garage (husband is a hoarder) so I could put my new car in the garage (I have had 2 cars totaled by hail while our garage protects rubbish). They did it as a birthday present to me, not mother’s day. It was a really huge job. Best present ever!</p>
<p>Other than that - I do like to get flowers. Doesn’t happen often unfortunately :(.</p>
<p>My son is living across the country. Seeing him would be the best thing but that isn’t going to happen. Hope I get a phone call (and flowers would be nice, not holding my breath for the flowers though).</p>
<p>My sister is taking my mom to a baseball game. They have a mothers day give away. I am giving her a new pizza stone for the kitchen. May sound dumb but that was one thing she said she wanted at Christmas and nobody remembered to get it for her.</p>
<p>Sometimes we get our pictures taken professionally for her… one year I got her a pink GPS because she’s always getting lost… sometimes we take her out for dinner…</p>
<p>What I want for Mother’s Day is not to have to go to my nephew’s First Holy Communion ceremony but I can’t get out of that or I won’t be remembered on Sister’s Day. But, really, I’m easy. I will settle for my daughter doing some of my laundry when she tackles her own.</p>
<p>Just reading these posts is enough for me to realize that I am appreciated by my Ds and
H. I luckily speak to my Ds frequently, spend time with them when they are at home, have time in my pjs on the weekend, have an H who cooks dinner most every night. I am a lucky mom. I think I’ll let them know how much I appreciate them on Mom’s Day.</p>
<p>Happy Mom’s Day everyone. You are all great Mom’s and your families really do love and appreciate you.</p>
<p>A good paying internship for the summer for D1. I’ve received the good news before Mother’s day so I will celebrating this weekend. Now I can book for my vacation this summer.</p>
<p>What I DON’T want is for my kids who are away and are still going to school to try to spend money for flowers, etc. I don’t need them and I feel worse if they spend money they do not have. A phone call with a nice leisurely conversation about what is going on in their lives with some pics shared on Facebook or elsewhere would be nice. Totally agree with what I would want is time with them instead of without them, but since that can’t happen, just having them share their life for a little while again from a distance is fine.</p>
<p>I would love for my son to get the job he interviewed for. It’s been several weeks since the phone interview. He thinks that he got it but he hasn’t heard from them. I think he’s just being overly optimistic.</p>
<p>What I really want for Mother’s Day–</p>
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<li><p>Absolutely nothing. Let’s respect and acknowledge each other every day. (This is my noble PC answer.) </p></li>
<li><p>I would love to all be together. Unfortunately this is not going to happen.</p></li>
<li><p>That I at least hear from each of you. I do not need presents or flowers.</p></li>
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<p>I’m very lucky this Mother’s Day. Both of my adult children are here for the weekend (due to other circumstances that happened to coincide with the day) and my DH is taking us, as well as my adorable 90 year old MIL who is always a ray of sunshine and my own mom who is usually a complaining grouch to a lovely brunch. I’m looking forward to it. Just having both kids together is a huge treat.</p>
<p>I have driven our trusted Jeep Cherokee, “Jeff” (yes, the kids name our vehicles) since D1 was in 4th grade - she just finished her sophomore year at college. Jeff has taken kids to school, meetings, cross-country meets, hockey practices and games, and just turned over 200,000 miles. He needs to keep going until D2 is done with college (she is a sophomore in HS now)</p>
<p>EVERY Mother’s Day I ask for Jeff to be cleaned and detailed, never happens…this year he even needs a new windshield after a nice gravel shower from a truck on the Thruway on the way to hockey…I (well, we) would take that cleaning over a new Pandora bead or a dinner out any day! Might even find some treasures to add to the kids’ memory boxes…</p>
<p>My daughter made this my best Mother’s Day ever.</p>
<p>With a $300 credit voucher she earned taking a bump on her flight home after Spring Break, she bought a ticket to come home just for this weekend to surprise me. My husband and son knew she was coming and were able to keep the secret. She was standing with open arms to greet me on Friday night after a long and trying day at work…it was the best tonic ever!</p>
<p>What made it even more special is she knew that even though we pay all her flight costs to and from school, I’d told her that credit was hers to use as she wished. After spending 8 hours in the ATL terminal waiting for the re-scheduled flight, she earned the right to use that credit for a trip anywhere she wanted. That she chose to use it to fly home and surprise me for Mother’s Day was something I’d never imagined she’d do.</p>
<p>^^^Aw, that’s a wonderful story. 
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<p>Happy Mother’s Day, moms!</p>