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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 272032" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Today was one of my better Mothers Days. I was able to sleep in until 9 am, I was in the loo when husband brought my mobile phone with a text message from easy child 2/difficult child 2, saying "Happy Mothers Day, c u 2nite."</p><p>THen within seconds came another one from difficult child 1 - "Happy Mothers Day. Where do we meet u after church? At home or somewhere outside?"</p><p></p><p>I walked out to the kitchen and difficult child 3 actually said (apparently without prompting - miraculous) "Happy Mothers Day!" (although I suspect he had been earlier prompted by husband and had spent the previous half hour struggling to remember to follow through).</p><p></p><p>I then began peeling and cutting up vegetables for a big roast lamb barbecued dinner we had planned at mother in law's. husband headed off to start the barbecue (kettle). I got down there soon after with my bag of vegetables.</p><p></p><p>The rest of the day was stressful and a comedy of errors. The barbecue failed to light so it was decided to use the oven. Of course, not everyone was told this, so it led to some confusion. Then the oven element died and the roast stopped cooking. I went to fetch husband (it was now 2 pm and no aroma of lunch roasting) and I grabbed more kindling to kick-start the barbecue. Aussies do powerful kindling!</p><p></p><p>By 3 pm the roast is in the barbecue and cooking. The vegetables are being roasted under the griller. I had grabbed some last-minute ingredients and done a very quick impromptu vegetable stir-fry for a late snack lunch, plus nibbles and cheese. difficult child 1 & daughter in law had arrived for lunch, daughter in law needs to eat on time and she fainted (I suspect low BSL).</p><p></p><p>We finally ate "lunch" at 5 pm.</p><p></p><p>But it was still a good Mothers Day - difficult child 1 remembered to say"Happy Mothers Day" when he arrived with daughter in law. And later when the phone rang at 6 pm it was easy child 2/difficult child 2 saying, "Happy Mothers Day." She was apologising for not making the visit to us after all, because she had been at work all day and felt a bad cold coming on. </p><p></p><p>But I heard from three of my kids, and the fourth has the perfect excuse - she is in Thailand on her honeymoon!</p><p></p><p>The moral of the story - Mothers Day is generally no better than any other day. It is only a bad day if we let our expectations run away with our ambition and imagination. But if we keep our feet on the ground, we will not be disappointed.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 272032, member: 1991"] Today was one of my better Mothers Days. I was able to sleep in until 9 am, I was in the loo when husband brought my mobile phone with a text message from easy child 2/difficult child 2, saying "Happy Mothers Day, c u 2nite." THen within seconds came another one from difficult child 1 - "Happy Mothers Day. Where do we meet u after church? At home or somewhere outside?" I walked out to the kitchen and difficult child 3 actually said (apparently without prompting - miraculous) "Happy Mothers Day!" (although I suspect he had been earlier prompted by husband and had spent the previous half hour struggling to remember to follow through). I then began peeling and cutting up vegetables for a big roast lamb barbecued dinner we had planned at mother in law's. husband headed off to start the barbecue (kettle). I got down there soon after with my bag of vegetables. The rest of the day was stressful and a comedy of errors. The barbecue failed to light so it was decided to use the oven. Of course, not everyone was told this, so it led to some confusion. Then the oven element died and the roast stopped cooking. I went to fetch husband (it was now 2 pm and no aroma of lunch roasting) and I grabbed more kindling to kick-start the barbecue. Aussies do powerful kindling! By 3 pm the roast is in the barbecue and cooking. The vegetables are being roasted under the griller. I had grabbed some last-minute ingredients and done a very quick impromptu vegetable stir-fry for a late snack lunch, plus nibbles and cheese. difficult child 1 & daughter in law had arrived for lunch, daughter in law needs to eat on time and she fainted (I suspect low BSL). We finally ate "lunch" at 5 pm. But it was still a good Mothers Day - difficult child 1 remembered to say"Happy Mothers Day" when he arrived with daughter in law. And later when the phone rang at 6 pm it was easy child 2/difficult child 2 saying, "Happy Mothers Day." She was apologising for not making the visit to us after all, because she had been at work all day and felt a bad cold coming on. But I heard from three of my kids, and the fourth has the perfect excuse - she is in Thailand on her honeymoon! The moral of the story - Mothers Day is generally no better than any other day. It is only a bad day if we let our expectations run away with our ambition and imagination. But if we keep our feet on the ground, we will not be disappointed. Marg [/QUOTE]
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