HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!! Any plans? Tears too...

[MidwestMom]

To my greatest mentors, Happy Mothers Day!!! (although I know a few of our warriors are sad and this thread is for them too...you are all good mothers, even if your kids don't appreciate it).

We always do everything low key. Hub and I are going to the casino later on to gamble a few nickles and hope for a few bucks About it. Oh, yeah. We're having a cookout if it doesn't rain. Money is tight this year partly because Lucas is graduating in two weeks and we're making a big deal out of that, so I put a bug in hub's ear to buy me certain special flavors of top notch coffee (I'm a coffeeholic). So that is probably going to be my present from him.

What are your plans? Are you happy this mother's day?

[buddy]

Going to picnic with my sisters, nieces & nephews, and my mom. Q has had at least one ugly moment per day lately so I hope it goes ok. I view this as my mom's day. I intrinsically know it is my day too but of course dont count on his showing appreciation, once in a while he will on his own say it and I have to appreciate it because for him it is big. Even if in the next breath he blurts out something less than grateful sounding.

Hope everyone gets a moment of peace and happiness today. I still feel it is an honor and privilege to be a mom period. Would never not want to have been on this journey. Just would prefer a smoother ride lately!

Oh God gave me a mother's day present sort of....we passed a garage sale and Q likes to look at them. I had exactly two dollars. His helmet broke which he needs for everything of course, including horse back riding (they have some so they do let him use those). But they are so expensive. So this place had several. One blue with all the soft pads inside and one toy hawk one which was missing all the pads. They were made by the same company so the home owner said we could just pull the pads out of the blue one and put it in the Tony Hawk one he wanted. We didn't negotiate the price, just gave her the two dollars and I was happy for the mother's day present of not having to spend a fortune on a new helmet! I have seen this one in stores and it is expensive. That was a fun time! He loved wearing it at horse back riding yesterday, I heard him tell everyone about it.

[StepTo2]

We're grilling out for the Moms - MIL, my Mom and bio-gma. Of course, I am preparing all the food. But I know I'm at least getting a card - DH and Onyxx ran an errand yesterday (!) and when they came back I wasn't allowed in the dining room for about 15 minutes. LOL! Then they left them on the table. When I moved them for dinner I noticed that Onyxx had written my name on one envelope - with "(Mom)" after it. (SNIFFLE!)

In a couple minutes I'm going to go pounce on DH and make sure he wakes up...

OH - I did have one awesome thing happen already... Jett started his laundry with NO PROMPTING AT ALL!!!

[buddy]

Step, happy first mother's day with Bean! Kind of a special mother's day to have a new life growing inside. Makes me smile.

[Rabbit]

Happy Mother's Day to all! Hugs Rabbit

[TeDo]

The boys and I are taking my mom and niece out to my sister's for the day (maybe). Mom took sister to the ER yesterday. she had a severe upper respiratory infection so don't have a clue if she's going to last the day. She refused to cancel because she has "too d*** much food in my fridge to cancel". So, we are going but everything after lunch is up in the air. We usually just sit around and play games and the boys go off to another room to play video games. They get bored out there and we spend ALL holidays out there because sister's SO of 20 years gets bored anywhere else so "at least this way 'sister' can spend some time with us without 'SO' wanting to leave right away" as Mom says.

I have asked the boys for some help with a couple things this morning and of course they are glued to the TV (intensely playing with the dog during commercials) so NONE of it is getting done. I told them I didn't want anything for Mother's Day and of course they took me literally so I won't even get a card. Today is just the same as every other day except for the trip to my sisters. I just hope they don't argue and "bicker" as much as they usually do. THAT would be heaven for me.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to you all!! And I agree with MWM that ALL of you deserve a good day whether our kids care or not.!!

[Mom2oddson]

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful Mom's on the Board. And it doesn't matter whether your kids acknowledge you are not - YOU know that you are a wonderful Mom. YOU poured your heart and soul into your children and love them even when they are unlovable. So YOU are a Fantastic MOM!!

The way I look at it is that I didn't have them so that they could give me a card on a second Sunday in May, so it doesn't matter either way.

Today, it will be just DH & I. And since we are finally having nice weather here, we are going to take the motorcycle out and take a long ride around the Hood Canal. We will be dropping off cards for my Mom & Grandma and a card to DH's Grandma. DH did mail a generic card to his Mom.

I did have some nice blessing this weekend. PC made the 25 hour drive up here to swap the car for the truck. So PC was here for about 48 hrs. He's already left to drive back to MN. Ant made the 5 hour drive and showed yesterday. It was a nice surprise. Of course, he went out with friends yesterday and hasn't been seen since. Hopefully he catches up with his Uncle and doesn't miss his ride home. But that is HIS problem.

Steph gave me the nicest gift and she doesn't even realize it. She sat and talked with me on Friday night about very personal things in here life. And considering that this time last year, I didn't know if I'd ever have my girl in my life again..... what a blessing this has been. Of course, having your DD talking about how she might want to get back with her loser boyfriend because she's missing the sex isn't my favorite subject. But what a difference a year can make!!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to the greatest group of Mom's out there.

[Hound dog]

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

Nothing going on here today. PC has to work. Nichole can't even seem to get her dh motivated to come down and visit his OWN mother for Mother's Day. It's peeving her off.

So I'm just chillin' with the dogs. Might do some light housework. Might not. Was hoping to work on the garden some more.........maybe whack more weeds.........but it's raining.

Got phone calls from both my girls wishing me Happy Mother's Day. The one from Nichole started with Aubrey wishing me Happy Mother's Day. lol (her idea) She's so darn cute.

I hope everyone has a good day today. No gfg antics, just a peaceful happy day.

Hugs

[ThreeShadows]

Happy Mother's Day! I will be eating under the roses which are climbing up the pergola. DH and I went to Wegman's and bought all kinds of deadly but delicious foods, including two varieties of the hundreds of French cheeses.

The birds are singing in the garden, the peonies, irises, roses and other flowers are bursting with life. All my senses will be delighted today!

The twins have always had a rivalry going, so gfg1 wished me well late last night on FB and gfg2 called me this AM to wish me a happy day. Sneakily, he asked me if I had heard from his brother. I knew he was fishing to find out if gfg1 had remembered! Then he proceeded to post that I was the best mother in the world, LOL! He is really outdoing himself, let alone his rival brother.

[Tiapet]

Mother's Day began yesterday evening with yelling and screaming match with everyone and then again first thing this morning bright and early as usual. Younger gfgs. I'm up and trying to simply read the Sunday paper and then cut my coupons which is routine. Arguments over the WII and TV, which they JUST got back! Middle gfg being mouthy as get out to me, everything she says out of her mouth proceeded by B**tch to me. Oh excuse me, stupid B*tch! Ordering me around. Telling me how I'm not going out today and how she knows I have plans to go out and go shopping because "it's Mother's Day". Yeah, I do. To the grocery store to get some food (normal Sunday thing) and then to get HER bday gift stuff! Her bday is tomorrow.

Oldest gfg conspired with other half to get me out of house for "a couple of hours" today so she can do something, though I had already planned to go out as above. She wanted me to go out to lunch/brunch or something but I don't eat but once a day anyway and I had already had meat out to go in crockpot for dinner so if I eat midday I won't eat dinner.

I know she planned on most likely cleaning/picking up house because as par for the norm, no one has been picking up their **** laying around all week and I've been on everyone to do so and she knows it. She likes me to be gone when she goes all out like that because she will blast "her" music and go nuts quickly to get it done.

I worry leaving the younger gfgs with her today though because they aren't in a good way (some days I can get away with it for a short time if they are on a good or semi good/even keel). If they are in bad ways, like they are this morning, everyone just gets fighting and she has no patience and she will go off on them and it's just pure H*LL and I know what goes on when I'm not here and what I will come home to. ~sigh~

But, I do have to go out today no matter what so I have no choice. I have to wake her up to do it which is never a good thing. It's better that she wakes up on her own (BPer's are notoriously, in my house anyhow, very difficult if you wake them).

So yeah, today will be some grocery shopping, bday gift getting and wrappings, dinner in crock - something like stroganoff and we'll have egg noodles, green beans and I might pick something up I see and like for dessert. Then it is Survivior Finale (always on Mother's Day, I wonder why that is???). I'm sure they won't be peaceful for it, they never are anymore. I'll try to bribe them with dessert, it might work if I'm lucky and then I'll get the last hourish in peace! LOL

Only 1 week and 2 1/2 days left of school for them and then....OMW! I'll be in daily strife because they will be home all day fighting, arguing, yelling...MOM>>>>I"M BORED!!!!

I can't even yell "calgon take me away" because my darn tub in this place is one of those pre-fab shower enclosures that has a narrow tub that no adult can really sit in. Gah! I miss my old house in NC, it had a beautiful garden tub I could get lost in! Oh and to top it all off, SO came back from his business trip (to Disneyland of all places no less!) with a really bad head cold so he's sick as a dog!


REALLYYYY?????? Ok, well I'm used to this, like us all. Just another day in the life of a warrior mom......expect no less and be pleasantly surprised....ur ummm....yeah....something like that! lol

Oh and I forgot....I did get a card for Mother's day....from STAR!!! It was BEAUTIFUL!!! Thank you so very much!