Mothers Day

[Hibeechick]

Is everyone remembering that mothers day is early this year and is on Sunday?

[honey]

Is everyone remembering that mothers day is early this year and is on Sunday?

yep, just got soaked going into town to get my mams pressie today.. just hoep she likes it now! :lol:

[karia]

Thanks Hibeechick......the supermarkets don't do nearly enough to remind us of these events!:lol::lol:

[Hibeechick]

Thanks Hibeechick......the supermarkets don't do nearly enough to remind us of these events!:lol::lol:

Even with the amount of advertising on the tv you'd still be surprised at the amount of people that don't know that its this weekend.

[unicorn]

Well I for one had forgotten so thanks hibeechick

[George Brims]

It's even easier to get caught out if you're in the US, where Mother's Day is later in the year. However just to get us more confused, we have a British calendar hanging in our kitchen that gives the American date! That's May 11th for anyone who needs to know.

[percy toboggan]

Sadly I've had no need to remember Mother's Day since 1980.
Last night though - coincidentally - I did put together a photo montage of auld pics with the Who track 'Pictures of Lily' God! how I wish photography was as commonplace when I was growing up as it is today. We have so few old photos......pathetic..a lesson for everyone...get clicking. I have taken thousands of 'em since 1980.

(In case yer wondering, me Mam was called Lily passed away aged 56)

[karia]

Well I for one had forgotten so thanks hibeechick

I wasn't having a go at hibeechick...but had just returned from Morrisons where I had to hack my way through a veritable forest of 'Mothers day' banners at every half way plausible point of sale...perfume, flowers, chocolates, (girlie) DVD's cards, soft toys, make up, toiletries, champagne etc etc.

So happy for you if you aren't being bombarded thus but down here if they could link kippers to mothers day then they would.

Every day should be one in which you think warmly of your mum and treat her with all the love and respect she deserves.

[percy toboggan]

Every day should be one in which you think warmly of your mum and treat her with all the love and respect she deserves.

A bit of a presumption.
I doubt a similar presumption would be made about Dads without a challenge, so here goes....
Not all Mums are good Mums. Mine was okay, happily...even fine most of the time.

[Angela]

Every day should be one in which you think warmly of your mum and treat her with all the love and respect she deserves.

That doesn't mean that mums don't appreciate a card and maybe a little present from their children on Mothers Day.

A couple of years ago, my big strong grown up son, who'd probably rather die than talk about anything emotional, rather sheepishly handed me a card 'to the best mum in the world'. I'm not ashamed to admit that I just burst into floods of tears!

[karia]

A bit of a presumption.
I doubt a similar presumption would be made about Dads without a challenge, so here goes....
Not all Mums are good Mums. Mine was okay, happily...even fine most of the time.

Hence my use of 'respect she deserves';)

I got real lucky with mine...and my dad!:D

[karia]

That doesn't mean that mums don't appreciate a card and maybe a little present from their children on Mothers Day.!

To be sure...if it only happens on Mothers day and birthdays then they will appreciate them.:eek:

Why not a special treat on random days just cause you can?:confused

Can't you express your love with a wee gift on tuesdays..a special cake on Friday..a hug every day and a card when you see one that says what you mean rather than the churned out emotion Hallmark say you should feel on the same day as everyone else?

[Tugmistress]

never acknowledged my mother for the last 25 years and ain't about to start now, instead my nana gets it all and more :D

[golach]

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So happy for you if you aren't being bombarded thus but down here if they could link kippers to mothers day then they would.


Karia, many thanks, I have been wraxing my owld brain, what to get my Mother for Mothering Sunday, and you are wonderful, she loves Kippers, but has not had them for ages, so a pair of Kippers it is, I know she will be happy, they are so different from the usual bunches of flowers she gets from my siblings and me.

[Angela]

To be sure...if it only happens on Mothers day and birthdays then they will appreciate them.:eek:

Why not a special treat on random days just cause you can?:confused

Can't you express your love with a wee gift on tuesdays..a special cake on Friday..a hug every day and a card when you see one that says what you mean rather than the churned out emotion Hallmark say you should feel on the same day as everyone else?

Karia, my point was really that I for one do appreciate a wee special something on Mothers Day. That doesn't mean that all my children don't show me their affection in all kinds of ways, all the time -they do, and of course I value that too.

I didn't feel for one moment that my son had bought me a card (the words were his, btw, not anyone else's) because he was being told he should feel some emotion he didn't. You can know perfectly well that someone loves you and still treasure a little token of that love, even if it is on Mothers Day.

My own mum didn't approve of Mothers Day, which was perhaps just as well, as we weren't close, and I really wouldn't have wanted to buy her anything.

[karia]

Karia, my point was really that I for one do appreciate a wee special something on Mothers Day. That doesn't mean that all my children don't show me their affection in all kinds of ways, all the time -they do, and of course I value that too.

I didn't feel for one moment that my son had bought me a card (the words were his, btw, not anyone else's) because he was being told he should feel some emotion he didn't. You can know perfectly well that someone loves you and still treasure a little token of that love, even if it is on Mothers Day.

My own mum didn't approve of Mothers Day, which was perhaps just as well, as we weren't close, and I really wouldn't have wanted to buy her anything.

So here's to good mothers . everywhere.....everyday!:D

While you are lucky enough still to have them..rejoice and if they failed you acknowledge the loss and do better for yours.

[Kevin Milkins]

Dispite it been thrown at me by the bucket load on TV supermarket etc I had no Idea it was mothers day this Sunday,so well done to that person for giveing us a poke. My mother passed away some years ago , but I still have a mother in law ,Bless her. She came and stayed for 6 weeks in the summer and we gave her a good look around the highlands and took loads of photos for her on my digital camera.She has been nagging me to death to print off some photos for her ,but I have not got around to it. I decided a little while ago to do her a slide show and put them on a disc for her so I need to crack on. Thanks again.

[DeHaviLand]

Is everyone remembering that mothers day is early this year and is on Sunday?

Drumming up business Hibeechick;).
Its a better reminder than Woolies anyway, who have posters in their windows preaching " Dont forget Mothers Day". Nowhere on the posters does it actually say when Mothers Day is tho:roll:

[caroline]

Mothers Day has come a long way from the true meaning of Mothers Day and is so widely commercialised. An old lady told me years ago that Mother's Day came about for the nuns who were in closed orders and convents were very strict some were not allowed to speak. On the fourth Sunday of lent they were allowed to go home and visit their Mothers and this was known as Mothers Day and always on the fourth Sunday of Lent.

Do not get me wrong I always give my mother a card and we pressie on mothers day but think it is a bit OTT sometimes as you can give your mother love everyday and always. No one should feel guilty if they decide not to give anything to their mothers on mothers day.

[justine]

To be sure...if it only happens on Mothers day and birthdays then they will appreciate them.:eek:

Why not a special treat on random days just cause you can?:confused

Can't you express your love with a wee gift on tuesdays..a special cake on Friday..a hug every day and a card when you see one that says what you mean rather than the churned out emotion Hallmark say you should feel on the same day as everyone else?


Well said. My kids make me cards all the time and come home from school with small things for me all year round....Which is great as they always forget mothers day....................

[caroline]

Forgot to say Fourth Sunday of Lent was the only day of the year nuns got home to visit their Mothers.

[Hibeechick]

Drumming up business Hibeechick;).
Its a better reminder than Woolies anyway, who have posters in their windows preaching " Dont forget Mothers Day". Nowhere on the posters does it actually say when Mothers Day is tho:roll:

Not at all. Just found the number of people that didn't know when it was to be quite surprising and thought id give everyone the heads up.

[router]

noticed tesco have got loads of booze on their display for mothers day aswell,there's just no stopping it! next we will have bunny shaped cans of lager for easter !!!!!!!!:eek:

[JAWS]

Originally Mother's Day was "Mothering Sunday" which was the day servants and people living away from home were allowed to return to visit their "Mother Church". Before people moved around as much as they do now it would be the Church in the place where most of the family lived.

I suspect the reason would be so that there was at least one day each year when those who had moved away could pay a family visit to keep in touch and find out what was happening to their relatives.
Or, at least, that is what I have been led to understand.

[golach]

Not at all. Just found the number of people that didn't know when it was to be quite surprising and thought id give everyone the heads up.
Ty anyway Hibee

[Sporran]

It's even easier to get caught out if you're in the US, where Mother's Day is later in the year. However just to get us more confused, we have a British calendar hanging in our kitchen that gives the American date! That's May 11th for anyone who needs to know.

Thank goodness Father's Day is the same in the UK and the US, though! Hope I can find where I put the Mother's Day card I bought here last May, so I'd have it for my mother in the UK this year!!




.....just returned from Morrisons where I had to hack my way through a veritable forest of 'Mothers day' banners at every half way plausible point of sale...perfume, flowers, chocolates, (girlie) DVD's cards, soft toys, make up, toiletries, champagne etc etc.

So happy for you if you aren't being bombarded thus but down here if they could link kippers to mothers day then they would.





Karia, many thanks, I have been wraxing my owld brain, what to get my Mother for Mothering Sunday, and you are wonderful, she loves Kippers, but has not had them for ages, so a pair of Kippers it is, I know she will be happy, they are so different from the usual bunches of flowers she gets from my siblings and me.

That should definitely kipper happy, golach! ;) :D

[honey]

Ive had the best pressie alreadt.. my 8 year old saw GMTVs "mum in a million" being advertised and he said..

"mum, thats you"

aww. lump in throat time!!!

[Julia]

Did anyone hear that a florist in Birmingham had to destroy thousands of mother's day flowers as they were infested with spiders and their eggs! :eek:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-1307078,00.html

[unicorn]

Not at all nice, I once took roses in from the garden to then discover they were moving with forkietails, nastyyyy :eek:

[wee sparkle]

I actually remembered mothers day this year, lol, i got her present early aswel! Quite delighted with myself!:lol: Just have to remember to give it to her now =P