That's brilliant Pirate - your OH will love that 

I'm sure you'll be missing you own dear Mum too xx  

 

 

 

yeah

blimey...nearly a year

gone very quick seems like a couple of months ago!

anyway our Mom had a sweet tooth (well, sweet gums)

if i bought her coconut body scrub

she woulda eaten it

 Body Shop stuff smells yummy... sometimes i feel like eating it 

I want one of those!  For myself, not for my Mum, she can get chocolates or something

yaaaay

Oh, you buying?  I'll msg you my address for postage

That's a lovely gift pirate ...I'm sure you OH will love it  

M&S have some lovely plant bits and bobs on - a little enamel watering can filled with small purple flowers or a lovely blue bucket with sunflowers.

 

Think I'll get something like that for my mum .....I also painted her a lovely plate with fish bones and cat paw prints on it for her new cat - it was left to be fired have to go and collect it.

 

Got her a lovely black cat from the rescue place for her birthday last week.

 

Must remember to buy a lottery ticket .....she may be a lucky black cat!

another idea to make your ma a mothers day card personal

not one from a shop

make & print one yourself

 

nice & easy site if you want to make a personal mothers day card... http://printable-cards.gotfreecards.com/designer.html?type=art&id=519&cat=Mother%27s%20Day …

Charity mothers gift that keeps giving .

 

Help another mum help her baby .

http://shop.unicef.org.uk/

I've got a card in the post today and I think a CD ..........I'm very curious to know what CD it might be.

Open it

My mum is beyond presents. Although we bought her some very expensive soap. We will take her out for the special meal (11am in real time) and then have a meet up of all four generations. She loves to be with her great grandchildren.

(Mrs Jer isn't a big fan of what we call generic social control festivals)

       

Awww that's nice

Way to go Mrs Jer   although I can see others points of view too 

I'm with Mrs. Jer. My children insist on honouring the day in the face of heavy opposition on my part. Loving your kids and wanting to bring them up to be happy should be the most basic emotion when you have children.

Mr Woo has hidden it ............he is a real stickler for birthday/gift protocol and would kill me if I opened early

Of course but I do love making a bit of a fuss of my mum. It's just nice to have a 'special' day.

You are my daughter and I claim the fiver.  

My son asked his dad "who decided a what day Mother's Day is on?" To which came the reply "card companies"

I've been to the sandwich shop or patisserie as they call it round these parts. The Florist is at the end of the row and behind it was a huge pile of empty boxes. Meanwhile a bunch of saps and mugs were carrying out ridiculous and probably very expensive creations.
One wants to shout, "you fools, you are buying the florist a Mothering Sunday present!"
In my experience chicks are just as happy with three bunches of late daff hybrids for three poond.

I'm sure a diet of late daff hybrids would be a very bad for a baby chicken! 

I never used to buy my mam flowers for Mothers Day, cos they hike the price up and she was ok with that. I used to buy them a few weeks later and tell her they were part of her present 

*translates as* Carport believes that Mrs Jer wouldn't be a fan of spontaneous expressions of affection. 

Trust me!
I've bought her flowers every week since the start of the season, which I always do at this time of year. But she, like me, is a big believer in cost effectiveness.
£1.5 per bunch. Three bunches for three poond.

May I refer you to my previous posts regarding cleaning the house from top to bottom, and making food items, and meals.

i got given a HUGE joint of beef in the pub for a bit of work i did for someone

i defrosted it last night-cooked it this morning-it wasnt beef it was lamb

it was really fatty & horrible

for a joke i told the kids that i got it from a farm & the farmers wife had gone missing & it might be a chunk of her

i thought they'd laugh

they refused to eat it

so did OH

dogs loved it

 Next time, save the joke until they've eaten the meat.

I bet the dogs were delighted with it.

 

I tend to like Mrs Jer's point of view, but I have just spent the last five hours with the family and my mum replete with presents and cards 

I have had a cacophony of mothers round to mine for lunch ... my mum, MIL, my sis, sis in law ... plus assorted husbands and children.

 

we have had a lovely family day

Yes! My mum 's a different matter. We surprised her with the whole family and took her out for lunch. We had an amusing afternoon of games and have just returned.

One other thing I realised that may be different is that we have joint accounts, it seems daft giving money to a third party to buy a present for your partner. As charming Martin Lewis himself in his debonair mode observed, "you share bodily fluids, so what's the big deal about sharing money?"

My CD was Rod Stewar's latest

 

Got lovely flowers from my other son and a lovely card.

 

Daughter bought me a lovely bright Gerbera arrangement and an ornamental jar thing.

 

She took me out on a little shopping trip and treated me to some new socks and nicks and the two of us are going out for tea tomorrow.

 

Mum loved her assortment of bits and bobs and we all had a lovely dinner.

 

I had a lovely card from our friend and regular Sunday dinner guest. He is in his seventies and on his own so we have adopted him.  He bought me chocs and flowers and the sentiment in the card made me  just a little bit.