Mother's Day: Focus on YOUR mother or the mother of your children?

You need to multi-task here. You need to do the card and flower thing for your mother. You also need to make sure your children make cards, make breakfast and give their mother some flowers as part of the whole Mother's Day event. Then you need to take care of your wife with a card, flowers and dinner - hopefully with all of the aforementioned folks along for the ride.

Which one is your mother? Help your kids select a gift for their mother.

PLAN something special for both of them. There's nothing wrong in celebrating mother's day (probably more appropriate for your mother vs wife b/c the kids would miss out) on a different day. I disagree with the PP. Cards are not satisfactory, except perhaps the hand made cards from the children (good for both mom and nana). What's most impoortant is to plan a unique but low key activity for your wife (e.g. a family trip to the mountains (with a picnic lunch), a trip to the city to see a performance geared toward young children, run a race together and kids run) and mother (e.g., take her to high tea or make high tea, go to the sea shore, etc).

Flowers and cards are nice- but a cop out.

Mothers day is just another made up "holiday". Why do we need a day put on a calander to treat our mothers and wife the way they should be treated in the first place?

It's easy for Arkansans. She is the same person.

Also factor in the wife's mother.

That's three mothers to worry about in one day.

I found out early that I had to get something for my wife. I had no idea but she wasn't too happy just getting a homemade (by me) card from her baby.

Now I had a group that would go on a canoe trip every year on father's day.

But then the wives decided that the fathers weren't allowed to do things for themselves on father's day.

Hard to keep up with these rules.

???????? wrote:Mothers day is just another made up "holiday". Why do we need a day put on a calander to treat our mothers and wife the way they should be treated in the first place?

I think the point is that you should treat them better than you treat them on a normal day. Perhaps you send them cards, flowers, and chocolates every day -- but many women would find that annoying.

Earth to Father wrote:

You need to multi-task here. You need to do the card and flower thing for your mother. You also need to make sure your children make cards, make breakfast and give their mother some flowers as part of the whole Mother's Day event. Then you need to take care of your wife with a card, flowers and dinner - hopefully with all of the aforementioned folks along for the ride.

You forgot the late night sodomy.