After Mother’s Day!
Everyone else writes their Mother’s Day posts before Mother’s Day! I, on the other hand, like waiting until after Mother’s Day. I like hearing how other moms and their families celebrated!
At my house, we went to the 8:30 am service at our church, where flowers were given to the youngest mother, the oldest mother, and the mother with the most children. I happened to be the youngest mother present! (Of course, there usually isn’t a huge turnout for the early service, so that helped!).
Then, we went home, where my daughter was presented with her Mother’s Day gifts-a card, flowers, and a new CD (all from her cat, Squirt!). After which, I was banned from the kitchen for two hours. (Any day I’m banned from the kitchen is a celebration for me!). I came back to the kitchen to find a luscious(!) chocolate cheesecake, topped with strawberries-along with my Mother’s Day gifts from my daughter and my fiancee-some die-cast Star Wars ships, a die-cast model of a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle (I’m crazy about those little cars), and a book on the history of the Beetle.
After all these goodies, we took a cake to my fiancee’s mother. We sat around their table eating cake and talking for a couple of hours. Then, back home, where my treat at dinner was homemade pizza and a newly rented movie. All in all a great day, despite the fact that I had an earache and a slightly sore throat. Why am I always sick at holidays?!
The only bad part of the day was missing my own mother, who passed away almost four years ago now. Mother’s Day and her birthday are always the worst days. My brother, sister, and I always get together and put flowers at the cemetery. It’s a wonderful way to memorialize, but it’s so much better when they’re actually here!
Anyway, how did you spend your Mother’s Day? You can discuss it here or over at Cafe Mom where there’s always a lot of good discussion on mothering!
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