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12 May 2006

What are you giving your mother for Mum's Day? Tickets to a cruise? An ulcer? A grandchild? A ride to AA? Lunch out? Lifelong heartache and shame? A duty visit?Sexy lingerie? How are you going to celebrate your particular mother/child relationship?

post by: Orange Swan at: 12:22 | 28 comments

We don't really have a close relationship, so I'm just going to call and see how she's doing.

posted by cmonkey 12 May | 12:25

A call. She'll give me stomach acid in return.

posted by jonmc 12 May | 12:26

I've finally settled on a rose and white cameo brooch, set in silver filigree and garnets. My sister will of course make this look piddling by cooking the Mother's Day meal for ten people and giving Mum an outfit, jewelry, books, CDs, roses, etc. But then she lives at home rent-free and I don't;-)

posted by Orange Swan 12 May | 12:27

I'm diligently watering my mom's garden and deadheading her rose bushes while she travels around Germany for a month.

posted by pieisexactlythree 12 May | 12:29

A phone call with a soupcon of heartache (hers).

Sigh.

posted by Fuzzbean 12 May | 12:30

We got all the grandkids together and had them make stepping stones to put around her pool. She's been asking us to do that for awhile, so she'll like it.

I'm a bit bitter that I have to go to M-Day dinner with my inlaws, though. I'm a mother too, you know, and spending the day kissing the ass of a woman who doesn't like/approve of me is really not the way I want to spend my day.

posted by jrossi4r 12 May | 12:34

I don't want to know which mecha folks are giving their mothers sexy lingerie.

posted by kmellis 12 May | 12:36

Eh, I talked to my mom once already this week/month. She gets peace and quiet for her mother's day.

posted by Eideteker 12 May | 12:38

A phone call. And the hope that my brother gets her as good a present from "us" as what I got her for xmas.

posted by SassHat 12 May | 12:38

Heh, jross, I always thought you were a man. (And no offence if you are;-) Medical technology is a wondrous thing.)

Next year, you might try suggesting to your husband that you not go to the in-laws on M-day and instead take the inlaws out to dinner the previous Sunday or something.

posted by Orange Swan 12 May | 12:43

A plant of some sort. Except she doesn't need any more plants. Gah. I don't know.

posted by mygothlaundry 12 May | 12:43

A phone call. And the hope that my brother gets her as good a present from "us" as what I got her for xmas.

posted by SassHat 12 May | 12:43

A framed picture of us taken at my cousin's wedding. A check for $300 that I owe her, a tool to sharpen her pruners, some gardening gloves, some Burt's Bees hand salve and my presence at home hauling limbs, cleaning gutters and lawn equipment and probably washing the goddamn siding like I did last year.

posted by sciurus 12 May | 12:51

For the past two months, I've been watching eBay to get replacements for her favorite Dansk coffee mugs. The ones that she has are all chipped on the lip and she won't throw them out because she likes the shape. I only found ONE of her same pattern, and it arrived broken (prompting an email war with the seller over refunds, that I eventually gave up on after calculating what my time was worth). But I did find the same shape in a different pattern, apparently a very sought after one, because after all was said and done and bid and shipped, I paid over $120 for 5 mugs that she may or may not even like.

We're also going to lunch on Sunday.

posted by krix 12 May | 12:58

Twenty bucks cash.

She's in a nursing home and needs spendin' money. I wish I could afford more.

The tables turn, y'all.

posted by rainbaby 12 May | 13:02

Me and pips are going out to a Hawaiian restaurant that features a spam based sushi roll. Spam is very big in Hawaii. Samoa, too. One theory is that it's because nothing approximates the taste of human flesh like Spam.

posted by jonmc 12 May | 13:05

Flowers and a phone call. Which I have to remember to do on Saturday evening to get the time zones right.

posted by gaspode 12 May | 13:13

space
or dimitri the lover

oh poop i already feel guilty

posted by ethylene 12 May | 13:15

I found a really great card, but forgot to mail it until today. I sent her flowers for no reason not long ago, no gift this weekend. There's 6 kids, so it's nice to space out the prezzies. I'll call, too. I'll make my son take me to lunch, and call my Mom and his other Gramma.

posted by theora55 12 May | 13:17

My mom will get a visit, probably with some flowers from the yard.

My wife will get a Code Pink rose from her boys.

posted by danostuporstar 12 May | 13:41

I mailed a card earlier this week and I'll call on Sunday.

posted by deborah 12 May | 13:42

Mother's day in the UK was about 2 months ago.. I sent my mum a card and some dark chocolate (her fave). We never really make that big a deal of it.

posted by Lotto 12 May | 13:46

I'm all woman, Orange Swan. But you're not the first to make that mistake. Though I find giving up Mother's Day annoying, she would probably have an aneurysm if she had to tell the ladies at church she spend the day without her oldest son. She lives for this stuff.

Krix--that kicks ass. I bet your mom will love them.

posted by jrossi4r 12 May | 13:46

I sent flowers earlier in the week so she could enjoy them on her desk before the big day and then take them home on the weekend.

Then I included a sappy message but the florist forgot to add the card.

Mom called to thank me saying she knew they were from me because they were all pink -- explicit instructions for Peonies, Hydrangea, Tulips, Roses and Star Gazer Lilies for fragrance.

She said that there was no card, so I read to her what I had written and she started to cry.

Each day this week I get a call from her thanking me because she sees them on her desk and it makes her happy.

posted by Lola_G 12 May | 14:01

My mother just retired and her social security doesn't kick in for another month, so for her birthday and mother's day I paid her rent.

posted by LeeJay 12 May | 15:41

Aw, I admire the heck outta you guys for supporting your mothers. Bravo!

I'm just going to call my mother and thank her for all of her help over the past year. And I'll put my kid on the line, too, because that's who Mom really wants to talk to. Maybe next year, after I get a real job, I'll be able to send her a tremendous bouquet or something.

posted by santee cooper 12 May | 17:11

I gave her a two-part gift: I sent her a large gardenia plant (her favorite), and when we chatted on the phone yesterday I let her go off on her latest rant about the war on Christianity* without making a single snort or sarcastic remark.

*extra weird detail: as long as I've known my mom, she's been a rather flinty agnostic (not to mention a liberal, too, up until 9/11!), although she now identifies as Christian, evidently based wholly on the religious preferences of G.W. Bush, because when asked if she goes to church she said no in this completely "are you kidding?" tone.

posted by scody 12 May | 21:20

Aw. This is an unexpectedly cute thread.

posted by Orange Swan 12 May | 21:38

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