AKO603, don't let his absence get to you. Enjoy your day, maybe ring your difficult child and chat on the phone to thank him for his candle. Postpone his part of Mothers Day until 13 June. Do you think he would be happy that his absence is making your day miserable? Don't let it!
Kjs, I hope you get a good sleep in.
My Mothers Day was lovely. Not very different to an ordinary day. difficult child 1 didn't telephone or arrive home as he sometimes does - he'll walk in tomorrow as if there's nothing different. He may well have totally forgotten. I'm used to him - I know he loves me and values me, he's just not wired for this sort of thing. he will be remorseful when he remembers.
As soon as I woke this morning (from a sleep in!) easy child 2/difficult child 2 wished me Happy Mothers Day and asked me what I wanted for breakfast. I gave my simple order and reminded her that difficult child 3 had agreed to get me coffee. Of course the kids insisted that the milk had to be frothed, they really went to a lot of trouble. They brought in my breakfast and coffee with two of easy child 2/difficult child 2's roses in my tall pewter vase. She'd cut them for me from her bushes.
easy child rang later this morning and we talked for over an hour, mostly about our travel plans. Three weeks to go! She rang again tonight, again to talk about more travel plans. From her emails, she's spent all day online researching what we want to do when we arrive in NZ. I'm trying to stop her over-organising us, but we did have a lovely chat about other stuff too. This will be the first real holiday BF1 has ever had.
BF2 was visiting his parents overnight, also with a view to them driving him back to our place and also bringing his car (he still hasn't got his licence, he needs to get some practice in the car and then go for his test). But at the last minute, his parents couldn't afford the petrol to put in the car to drive him home, so we drove over and collected him (and the car). We had a pleasant visit with his parents, sister, grandmother and great grandfather. I took over the afternoon tea I'd planned to serve when they visited us; turns out I did them a huge favour, because all they had to eat was pumpkin from their garden and whatever else they could rustle up from the larder. They really enjoyed the scones, cream and home-made jam (remember all that strawberry jam I made in March?). They'd had a huge vet bill which had totally taken them by surprise and so are pulling in their belts for a few days.
I dropped in to visit difficult child 3's godmother; she wasn't home so must have been kidnapped by her offspring and taken somewhere special. husband visited his mother and had a long chat (while I was on phone to easy child). We had a relaxed but full day, overall. Clear, blue skies but definitely colder in the mornings and evenings now.
It's Sunday evening now; we just ate our way through all our leftovers, so nobody had to cook (apart from husband cooking some rice). Now I have en empty fridge to fill for tomorrow night! difficult child 1 will be home so a fairly full house means big appetites. BF2's father gave us a big chunk of pumpkin, so pumpkin soup for starters, at least!
Enjoy your Mothers Day, everyone.
Marg
