Must depend on your local franchise... the two we've gotten had especially good fruit.

I'm really getting ticked off by all the "buy THIS for your mother" crap--every single store, zillions of email ads--all of it for useless crap.

I'd rather have some flowers, a card, a homemade gift, the gift of some labor around the house, etc.

My nephews (aged 6 and 10) were here at the house for about an hour whilst their parental units did...well, who really knows?

anyway--in that one hour they managed to completely harsh my cool.

happy mother's day indeed!

be glad you can send them back where they came from--the poor momma can't.

It's a test of your mothering abilities, if you get the good stuff back you know you brought them up properly ;)

BTW am also irritated by International Mothers Day emarketing. No, it's NOT International, any more than the World Series is worldwide. We celebrate ours according to the Christian calendar as is traditional.

For the record I just sent mine a card (I wasn't working back then). But it was chosen with great care and written with much love.

Guess I'll stop by grave yard and say HI.

I got my mom the Flower Power Time Life 10 CD Box Set.

I went with a gift certificate for a yarn store she likes.

Dinner at her fav restaurant - she loved it .... again.

They don't deliver on weekends.

I hope you're going to help her eat it!

She looks like she can keep you in line ... ;)

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I'm not anti-mother's day, but I'm not into "Hallmark Holidays" and I feel that I want any mother's day gift.gesture i am lucky enough to receive should be a spontaneous/self-instigated thing from my kids and I expect nothing. I'm not in touch with my mum and we sent beest's mum a homemade card on UK mother's day, and usually a floral gift of some sort, like origami flowers or flower seeds.

No, I won't be there, but I'll call her.

Daughter No. 1's taking me to see "Iron Man" tomorrow.

my mom will get a brief visit, and some gifts....i suck as a family member.

jinx is getting a new mountain bike....i'm gonna get up early and go get it...she's passed out by now and won't see this post before i give her the bike.

the thing is, i need her car to go get it, and i have nowher to hide it, so it has to be last minute. I sure hope she likes it.

I say this every year, but my kids are evidence that she is the best mom evarrr. i see what she does, and wonder how i survived my own mother.

I love me some Shelby. I don't know what cell I'd be in without her.


Oh ..and I'll bring her a nice starbuck's latte in bed and offer an oral Mom's day wake up .....event. I hope she accepts. she is a tousled, sleepy sex goddess when first she awakens.

i may get may ass kicked for this post.

I love you, hunny!

That teared me up a little bit.
Bless you.

Coincidentally I'm just about to call my Mum before I start getting this Board Meeting sorted out.
I dreamed she died last night and all I could think in the dream was, "I wish I had one more chance to tell her I love her." So I'm going to. Gonna wait til te lump's outta my throat though, or she'll get all worried about me.