Mothers DayFollow

What about Anti-Semitic complaints?


Sorry, DSD. Even a cup of coffee in bed to wake you up with would have been nice.

I think Mom's day went well at our house.

We started the morning with my boys and I waking my wife up at about 9:30am with an MP3 song and the required jumping on the bed by the little ones chanting "Mommy! Happy Mother's day!".

The older boys each gave their hand-crafted gifts made in school and the littlest one (not in school yet) got to give her a card that I bought.

After she had read all the cute gifts and poems from the kids, I then gave each of the boys a present to give to mommy! She then opened her first present - 2 packs of Hershey's mint sticks and a reese peanut butter cup pack. (Her favourites.) Then she opened the next gift, a Swiffer Vac. (She has been wanting one and we just put in new flooring last week.) She had to put together her new toy right away. Once I convinced her to put it down for a few minutes, she got her third gift. 4 new wood-style 10x13" picture frames with the pictures she had been wanting to mount for the past 2 months. I then presented her my card. Gotta love Hallmark, they always know the right thing to say to make the ladies tear up.

After the "moment" and lots of hugs and kisses, we packed up the family into the car and went over to the 50's style breakfast place and had a great breakfast. During our visit, at least 4 other families that we knew from our area, either neighbours or parents of kids at the school our children attend also came in for breakfast and well wishes were exchanged.

You'd think this would be enough to honour the mommy of our house? Oh no, next we went to pick up our daughter who was at her grandma's visiting and exchanged her for the 3 boys. (She was prepared, card and flowers in hand for mom!) I had to do a few things for work, so while I did my work, mom and daughter spent the afternoon playing cards (spending time). A few hours later, it was time to go out for supper! We hit a great Italian eatery (my wife's favourite food) and sat down for dinner.

The server brought the suggested wine to the table for tasting. I tasted it and sent it back; it did not have enough body for a red sauced pasta meal. She brings another bottle, of different flavour; still crap. On the third wine, (which I had to request since they did not know their wine from grape juice!), we had a good wine to sip with our dinner! This had no bearing on the evening other than this was the first time I had ever had to send back 2 bottles, so I thought I'd share!

After dinner we picked up the boys, headed hoem and called it a night. Kids in bed, mom (a bit tipsy) and dad relaxing.

Best Mother's day ever.


My only concern is that in 1 week is my 8th anniversary. I'm not sure how I'm going to make it better than her Mother's day.

Any ideas?




Edited, Mon May 15 13:00:21 2006 by Elderon

Og yeah, Mother's Day. I was going to call my mom from the bus yesterday afternoon but fell asleep and forgot.

Yes, I am that much of an *******. Even worse, I treated my girlfriend on her birthday last year the same way you were treated yeterday, Pikko. I have my own host of lame excuses which do nothing more than exacerbate the issue.

I'm sorry. I guess I fuc[Aqua]ked up.

But that's all I ever do is say "I'm sorry." After a while it loses all meaning...

If I thought for a second that you understood the implications of that statement, I'd call it incredibly insightful.

the part I think youre forgetting is the making up for it part.

It's not the empty apology that irritates as much as the total lack of thought that goes toward the realization that you just did something that hurt someone you loved, and you're too busy bieng pissed they pointed it out to humbly ask to be forgiven.

Did she "get" it? You had the perfect setup, but the worst is when the person you just "pwned" can't figure out why. Those are the people who 'get a sign'.

Yeah, she got it. This year I had a surprise party in my pants waiting for me.

I normally get something for my mom and my grandma. If my wife and I had kids, I'd get her something too.

This year I gave my grandma (my dad's mom) a card that said "You're cool, I'm cool, apparently it skips a generation"

I got my mother a card and a gift. I got my mother-in-law a card and a gift. I got my wife a card and a gift. My son "got" my wife a card and a gift. My son "got" both his grandmothers a card. I got my sister, who is 36 weeks preggo, a card and a gift. If I don't get a hell of a father's day present, every single Bob damn one of them is cut off next year.

Did you kick her or just push her out of the way of importance?