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Mothers Day? Is it my turn?
O.K. so this weekend is Mothers Day! I wish holidays in general would be more specific! For example whos Mothers Day is it? Is it my day? My Mother's? or my Husbands Mother's Day? The one thing I know beyond a shadow of a doubt is that it can not be all our special day unless of course my own personal celebration of Mothers Day includes doing all the regular stuff that I do everyday as a Mother!!! What is the real deal with this day other than adding more stress to an already stressful life? Don't get me wrong I love my Mother with all my heart and she has always been a great Mum but what can I ( a middle aged Mom myself) do or give my Mum that says appropriatly I Love you and Thank you! I practically won the lottery with my Mother in Law! She is lovely, kind and understanding but again what can I do on Mothers day to express this and further more it is my Husband that should be expressing this NOT ME!!! (well, on this day any ways!!!) If it was "my turn" this Mothers Day all I would really like is to sleep in, wake up (top priority to be Thankful for!) and mostly just have nothing go wrong that day! Wouldn't that just be the most remarkable day! Absolutely nothing going wrong, everybody would be happy do something they like, get along, the laundry pile would not grow, dog hair would not fall all over my couch (yes, they sleep on the couch when I am not home!) the sun would shine, the only food available for dinner would be delivery pizza and the delivery man would deliver the pizza with a lovely bottle of wine! That's it! That is the description of my perfect Mothers Day!!! Come to think of it I am going to tell my Mum and my Mom in law that my wish for both of them is very simple "a lovely day and nothing going wrong"! I will however add I Love You and Thank you to the cards!
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Oh, I hear ya sista! I think that by actually removing Mother's Day from the list of Hallmark days would do moms a bigger favour. Then instead there should be a pick your own special day like a pass you get to present to whomever needs to know that you are doing whatever the hell you want, whatever way you want and that when you wave around your pass, it's like a magic wand that opens doors, does the laundry, orders dinner, screens phone calls - whatever would make you feel like queen for a day - your day, the one you don't have to share with your mom or your mother-in-law, or your step-mom 'cuz really, what numbskull honestly thought you could put all those women together in one room and have a good time?!!!!! And if all the moms in your family are off-duty then who is watching the kids, you know those little lovelies that made you the lady of honour now competing for recognition with the other matriachs of your family? Oh, that's right, YOU ARE! because thepix is right, this isn't your day and don't let Hallmark or any of those other hungry retailers sell you a line that it is.
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I think you two are onto something. The way I see it, you either are a mom, or you have one. That's a lot of estrogen to pack into one day!!!!
We need a Mother's day for active duty moms - the ones with the little kids who bring home those awesome handprint drawings and potted plants in little painted pots that when you water them the colours run all over your counter and leave stains that remind you how lucky you are to have someone in your life with such tiny loving hands capable of making you smile by making a mess. These moms deserve a day to abandon all tasks, and have-tos and just spend the day sharing something they love to do with their children. It is such a very short time that these moms have before their children grow and start looking at you like you are an alien - a very unsettling thing when still fresh in your memory, are the days when you could do no wrong!
And I think the moms of babies should have full permission to go off and enjoy a massage or spend a day dressed up and remember what it feels like not to be someone's spit-up rag or giant kleenex. It was years before I hit the stage where my body and clothes became my sole property, unmarked by bodily fluids or juggling babies and toddlers like some sort of human playground! (and then came, George and my mud and fur covered clothes! but I that's another story altogether!) I think a day where the goal was to be a separate person would have been just the ticket during those baby years.
And then there could be a day for moms of adult children. In fact these moms deserve a day for each of their children so they can spend individual time with each of them. Just like kids need special time alone with their parents when they are little I think it switches around when we get big and our moms need special time with us.
And there could be a day just for Grandmas to spend with their grandchildren, well, just because that would be good for everyone!
And if you (okay I meant the rest of the world because I'm betting if your name is mom, you get it!), if you think I'm asking for too many days for mothers, let me put it this way, moms are the gatekeepers to earth - no one gets in any other way! And, it just makes sense to keep them happy!
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I totally agree with ya! in fact I didn,t think mothers day was suppose to be so much work ! who do ya see first And don,t do something for one if ya can,t do it for both and don,t forget grandmas too! Hello have they forgot we are mothers too!
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