Well, I've recovered from Tax Season and have started reading again. I ordered a bunch of books from e-har. Hopefully I'll post enough to start receiving the code again!
DD's softball game was cancelled tonight which means we can catch up on laundry, etc.
I am not sure what I want for Mother's Day, but my 85 year old mom wants a lawn chair. On the radio yesterday there was a DJ taking phone calls from mothers who had already received their Mother's Day gifts and telling about the gifts. The idea of the show was to give folks who have not purchased gifts ideas. The first caller said her son had already had her favorite peanut brittle sent to her. The second said she got a new sweeper. I think at times I have been guilty of requesting tools or things needed around the house. I feel guilty splurging on my self. What about you? Did you ever request a sweeper when you really wanted pearls?
Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's who have ever been pregnant, regardless if their children are alive. There is a woman in our church who's olny child was killed in a wreck. She never accepts the mother's day flowers they pass out because she says she is no longer a mother. How sad. I have a friend who never had kids but she mothers her horse and cat as if they were hers!
Sorry for rambling....
On Tuesday, I was having a
On Tuesday, I was having a program at this great caterers, when we got there to set up a group was leaving from some type of luncheon. It was all women, and I saw several gift bags and lots of beautiful flowers. So as we were getting our stuff to go in, I asked the lady what was the program - a baby shower or wedding shower? And she explained that her daughter had died last year, so a group of women - both her friends and her daughter's friends had put on a mother's day luncheon for her. What a wonderful gift, she told me, as it was a great way to remember her daughter. Very touching, made me want to cry.
Cady
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Oh Cady, I probably would
Oh Cady, I probably would have. How sweet of them. mj
Cady - that is so sad and
Cady - that is so sad and so sweet. What a touching story!
Betty - my husband and I have limited fiances so most holidays, Christmas, birthdays, etc, we worry more about the kids than ourselves. I don't mind for the most part. I enjoy just spending time with family and gifts to me, although nice and appreciated, aren't what holidays are about. I know that sounds like a Miss America I want world peace speech, but truly it doesn't bother me all that much.
But when someone asks what they can get me for a particular holiday I'm always at a bit of loss as to what to say. Most of the things I want are waaay too expense for a normal birthday gift. You know, a car, a house, a vacation in Hawaii, are all beyond most people's budgets.
Go figure.
So most of the time I will request something for the house. Dishes, pots and pans, an ear thermometer (sp), which I totally love, that sort of thing. I did complain to one of my sisters a few years ago, in passing of course, that since I became a parent most of the gifts I receive are household gifts and no one buys me clothes anymore. She now buys me clothes. :) Not that I mind the household gifts but it is nice to receive something more personal.
Hi all - I haven't been a mother that long that I really think a
lot about this, but kindergarten has the boys making stuff for me, and I think that's what I'll always prefer, my boys taking the time to make me something rather than throwing money at a shop assistant for something with no real thought behind it, and so as they grow I'll let them know that a handmade card with their heart in it is far more precious in my eyes than the pearl necklace (unless of course they went diving for the pearls and made the necklace themselves
)
It's the love behind the thought that counts, not the money
Hugs
Sadhbh
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"unless of course they went
"unless of course they went diving for the pearls and made the necklace themselves"
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Cady- Beautiful story but
Cady- Beautiful story but now I will be weepy all day. I don't know what I would do if I lost one of my sons.
Sadhbh- Speaking of Kindergarten gifts... I am old enough that we made ceramic ashtrays when I was in Kindergarten. My mom still had that lumpy turquoise ashtray when she passed away 30 years later. Now I understand why.
Angel
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My late DH never threw away
My late DH never threw away any card, art work from Nancy, etc., so now we have a huge section of our garage with items made by her. I love the ash tray story. My mom still has in her sitting room a picture I painted. Every time I see it I cringe, but she loves it and said daddy did, so I guess it stays.
DD asked what I wanted and I wanted a weekend with her & me and none of her friends so we can enjoy some games, etc.