What plans do people have for Mothers Day?

Oh, Denise!

That story is hilarious! I think you made my Mother's day weekend.

I'm having Mother's regret. DS recently got his first job - I shook the tree to help him get it, too. Now, he is often AOL at suppertime. We have been fortunate, I know, in the number of years we have had family dinner. If any one had missed, it had been me.

Tomorrow we will go to breakfast after church - our usual modus operandi. In the afternoon, I have my writer's group. Then son goes to work about the time I get home.

Linda

My cat brought me a (live) snake on Thursday and a (mostly dead) lizard yesterday. I can hardly wait to see what gifts today and tomorrow bring!

I discovered the lizard when a realtor knocked on the door and she almost stepped on it. She was Asian and we were having a little problem communicating and she thought that the lizard was a pet and asked, "He doesn't run away?", like maybe we had trained him or fed him or something. Part of the reason he wasn't running away was he was missing a couple of legs.

I think that I'll make myself a lime pie. It will be cheaper than flying Sheltie out and adopting him. I can't imagine Jamie making me a pie... but he'll do something for me.

ouch! the dynamics between DIL and MIL--hmmm..

i for one would love to eat your cooking jill!

I decided yesterday I wanted make a nice mother's day brunch for my future mil. My SO mentioned it to her and he got a luke-warm response. I'm kinda bummed-I know now we are going to end up somewhere I don't like to eat, some chain restaurant or diner(and I know, it's for her not me) but SO and I are really trying to focus on eating healthy and by making brunch we have way more control over the foods we eat. I can't help but think that I know why: Last year SO, his mom and her boyfriend, and I all got together for dinner. I brought two dishes, one of them was KD's Tortellini/Tomato/Spinach soup and the other chili. Her bf commented that he had never tasted such great chili in his life. This did not seem to go over very well with her and when I thought about last night I realized that other than holiday dinners we have not gotten together for a home cooked meal since that night. Oh well!

Jill

Judy,
I am generally pretty laid back and casual too, but there are times it feels super nice to have something extraordinary to do. The tea sounds like a once in a lifetime thing! It'll be fun to hear about it.

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Originally posted by Sandy:

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Originally posted by BrenauMom:
My sister has arranged for a formal "afternoon tea" at her bil's in Buckhead (elite section of Atlanta).
He is a chef and has a fabulous backyard garden that is always being featured in all sorts of home and garden magazines.

LA TEE DA!
Sounds great!

hehehe

Personally, I would rather just go to the park with dd & the dogs. I am not comfortable at dressy formal occasions. It is very stressfull and I do not enjoy them. I am more of a laid back casual person.

I make Mom a (baked) lime pie, using freshly squeezed lime juice and lime zest.

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Originally posted by BrenauMom:
My sister has arranged for a formal "afternoon tea" at her bil's in Buckhead (elite section of Atlanta).
He is a chef and has a fabulous backyard garden that is always being featured in all sorts of home and garden magazines.

LA TEE DA!
Sounds great!

My sister has arranged for a formal "afternoon tea" at her bil's in Buckhead (elite section of Atlanta).
He is a chef and has a fabulous backyard garden that is always being featured in all sorts of home and garden magazines.

I hate going out on Mother's Day... it is just a sea of humanity. There are about a quarter million people here... and they are all standing in lines to go out to eat on Mother's Day.

I'll call my mom.

I want to walk to Farmers mrk.

I also hope to get a handmade card and maybe dh will grill burgers or something.

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Originally posted by iz:
if i can just get a nice attitude from dd for a while 12 hours, i will be content.

Have you been watching Dr. Phil at all the past few days? He has been doing sort of an intervention workshop with tweens/teens and their parents...whoa...some serious attitude issues there--on both sides!

Dinner out with the family. I love visiting with the family, but am not real thrilled with having to eat out again after eating out tons last weekend.

i already sent the card and some photos. mom is in arizona. i am in north carolina.

i wanted to do something different this year. i love nature so i am making reservations to see rescued wild cats at the local Carnovore Trust. they give private tours for 90 minutes, and you can get pretty close to the cats. i am pretty excited. other than that, if i can just get a nice attitude from dd for a while 12 hours, i will be content.

I hope that I am treated super well with lots of handmade cards and flowers from the yard. (Dh and dd generally make me the most wonderful hand written cards.)
I think we'll lunch together with friends-sort of a community Mother's day.

Of course I will call my Mom too.

No plans here, other than calling my Mom at some point. She is 10 hours away in Ohio, so there won't be any get-together. I've already sent the card and ordered the flowers.

Lots of gardening and lunch with mom after church.

We are celebrating a belated Mother's Day. My mom is coming home for 2 wks from SC on 5/21 so we are all waiting until then to celebrate. Probably having lunch w/SO's mom on Sunday.

Jill