Mother's Day.
 

Well it doesn't seem two minutes since it was the last Mother's Day....and here it is, upon us again.
I got MY mother's day card and bouquet of flowers today, because in the morning, at around 7am I will be loading myself and MY mum onto a coach to go to Whitby (via Goathland).......We will spend the day going round the village of Aidensfield and then onto Whitby. Lunch at a nice restaurant...and a blow on the sea front (hope we don't get blown into the briny)
What joys have you got planned for your mother?

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hope you dont get snowed on MP...have a good day....I ve got all my lot coming around and my daughter and hubby are cooking a meal, so im just chilling out for the whole day..

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Well, all you Mums out there......I hope you all have a lovely relaxing day.

Cherokee......I hope we don'tget snowed on either....i haven't got any snow chains for the wheel chair! :)

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still miss me mam, and me kids miss theirs,was one of the few days in me life that i was a soft git, so to all you people who still have em- ruin em they deserve it.

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You dont know what you are missing until they arent there anymore.

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yea i miss my mum shed loads and theres been lots of times recently that i wish she,d been here to give me some advice or tell me how to cope with things ,ive not had her for 13 yrs but remember seeing her and talking to her like it was yesterday. so my thoughts are with her today...

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We just had some friends up tonight ,,, Their mum died in tragic surcumstances late last year,,they now have a little baby girl who their mum never saw...so i dont think it will be so good for them....even though they are trying to keep their chins up..

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awww thats awful granny .. im sure they will get through it, just the fact of having the little one will help them ..

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never truer words spoken jen.

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yes it was so sad ,mum went in hospital for a routine operation and never recovered,, at least she knew she was going to be a grandma

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aww that is sad granny ... but there are those out there for tomorrow that will hopefully realise that its a day that is well deserved for mums everywhere , i will be thinking of my mum but will also be enjoying celebrating it with my children knowing my mum wouldnt have had it any other way.

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Although I used to love cooking it is a little difficult now.

However I am having my Mum, and an old lady that bakes for me, round for a roast lunch tomorrow.

My Mum is actually bringing all the veg etc., but I will be laying the table and slamming the roasting tin in the oven, as my contibution.:D

Like lots of other people I think my Mum is the best in the world, except that I know mine really is.

Thanks for loving me, and being my friend Mum.

Love ya.:)

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You guys who have such cherished memories of your mums are greatly blessed. Those who still have their loving mums also. I'm very envious of my friends who get along so well with their parents Our Mother's day isn't until May but I don't do much with it. Plus my mom has developed pretty bad dementia so she doesn't know about it anyhoo.

Hope you all have a special Mums' Day!

Brian

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although i havn't had my mum here on earth with me for 37yrs i miss her every day but today is a big day for me & her, i feel so sad for my kids they never knew her she was fab .


a very happy mothers day to all mums & nans & grans x x x

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I echo those thoughts Mez xxx

Seems I'm getting landed with cooking a meal, daughter and grandaughter were coming from Dewsbury, but grandaughter now opted out.

Didn't mind, as gave me opportunity to cook a piece of beef .. now not sure what to do, as know could get wasted. May just freeze this and take out two pieces of chicken ... oh hek, decisions, decisions. Hope she will be OK in this wind .. will just give a mum another worry.

Received roses from daughter this morning, didn't hear the bell, which must have been very early .. Tesco's home delivery .. left it in me green bin .. so has come in handy after all ... :D

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Interesting Article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6409411.stm

What's everyone's take on how commercial Mothers Day is?

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i wish i could say happy mothers day to my mum, but she's been gone 16 years, anyway happy mothers day to all you mums on accyweb, have a great day xxx (i think i'll have to adopt a mum for the day) and i pick........uncle rindy ;)

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Any ideas where i could take my mother out today for a nice meal. Money is no problem so not on a budjet.

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Know what you are trying to convey Simon, my own mum always thought was too commercialised. Most mums, however, don't really want anything much, just a card or even small bunch of daffodils is appreciated.

Me, although hate cooking, would have loved my son, grandaughter, daughter and brother to come and help eat this piece of beef I have bought. A day around the dinner table listening to them all chat as a family (and they do chat believe me) would have been my best present.

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reece woke me up this morning with cheese on toast for my breakfast,and a brew, it made me smile :D

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Well i could arrange the accyweb family to call round at yours Katex they can chat and eat oh and drink you out of house and home:D

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yayyyy that would be great, what time can we come kate? ;)

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Cheers for the advice people.

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Well, you all good company, that's for sure :D Would ease my guilt for the 16% food we apparently waste .. (according to statistics this week.) I am as guilty as the rest of the population (sorry digression alert). Might even get rid of that Plum wine son brought me back from Eden Project.

Think of you all as a sort of family extension now ... is that violins playing in the background ?

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we had a nice meal at the MONTE CRISTOS if its open today

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You feeling neglected Tadah; to be honest, think the usual eating holes will be fully booked .. will just have to let your fingers do the walking.

Think one of our foreign restaurants may not be as booked up as the others e.g. Balti Stan down Clayton .. good food, and the proprietor always respectful to our traditions. Apart from that, not a clue, sorry.

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lol Used to it kate lol. Cheers for the suggestion of balti stan didnt think of that. And thank you too to mick. It is very nice in there been a few times. Think i will let my mother decide when she gets back from cyprus today.

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I think it's too commercial but it didn't stop me going for a meal, last night, with son and daughter-in-law to the local Turkish restaurant - their treat. The food there is to die for! Cards and gifts this morning, to make the awful weather outside (gales and hail and it's freezing cold) seem a bit less depressing. :)

Hope you enjoyed Whitby, Margaret. I lived there for 6 years in the 1960s, one of the best places in England, and I loved it. Oh, but there's no village called Aidensfield. They film it in Goathland. ;)

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yes monte christo's is nice meal .

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Chris got up with the kids this morning (he does every Sunday though) and I had a lie in. Then at about 9.30 they piled in with cards and presents and flowers. Both had done stuff at school and with my mum last week and with the childminder on thursday so had two cards from each of them, fantastic designed candles, pictures and paper flowers in a flower pot - plus real flowers and some spending money to buy a new outfit from Chris because he's been working a lot these last two weeks and got tons of overtime. So spoilt rotten so far.

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My lads had already bought me a new top and necklace, and when I got in this morning there was a card behind the door (they were stopping at their dads) for Mother's day. They have gone to their grandma's (dads mum) which I endorsed so I could have a chill out day after a heavy night :)

My mum is fantastic, she is due back from her hols tomorrow, but I have sent her a text and she knows I think she is the best mum ever

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Ive had a great day im still actually in shock & not recovered yet so glad i got spoiled in the 'doing' than the money spent sence which i appreciate so much more with the care & love i got today, breakfast in bed which a lot of thought went into even down to the flower in vase trick attention to detail was gobsmacking hehehehehe - how they got it upstairs i wont ask hehehehee, my eldest made me choccy truffles at school & got a tub of choccys from all of them:D:D:D

I've had no need top shout [which is a good job throat still tender from footy hehehe] - kids have been really well behaved & quiet [honest!], what can i say im still in shock about it:eek: not used to nice treatment i didnt know what to do lol but going to make most of it as back to normal tommoz:D

& its nice & warm here with a nice view of falling snow, happiness is bliss:D

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I got up at 6:30 am for work :(

But it was made nicer by the fact that my eldest son got up at 7:20am just before i went to work and gave me his card that he had made at school.....( he's a real sweety).

I got home from work at 2pm and received, 1 box of choccies, I bottle of wine, a bottle of Hugo Purple perfume and cards....:D:D spoiled rotten.

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Yes, West Ender....I know it is Goathland really.......but we all think of it as Aidensfield. No filming going on there today.
We had a fabulous day.....and although it was very cold we had the loveliest sunshine....no snow....no rain......a bit blustery......and the wind nearly blew Ma and the chair into the Harbour...true words and jest spring to mind.
We had a lovely lunch in Trenchers and got back home for about 7:30....a long day but thoroughly enjoyed by both of us.

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well ive had a lovely day nice brew to wake up to, then a lovely meal cooked by daughter and hubby and washing up done by sons,which almost sent me into shock because they hate washing up haha .. not had to do a thing, got a new pair of slippers which ive had my eye on for a while ,choccys and flowers , and now more me time...

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I Had A Lovely Day Too,,all My Chicks Brought Cards And Prezzies
Same As Cherokee My Son And His Fiancee Came And Cooked Lamb And All The Trimmings,then We Had A Lovely Lazy Afternoon,,,,

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reece went out in the snow last night and wrote 'mum happy mothers day' in the snow on the road...i was gobsmacked, made me feel so proud :D

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THE ROAD!!!! What about the traffic?

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i dont live on a main road i live on a ickle avenue spugster...there was no traffic

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In answer to your question......in past years I have made my mum a card........done her picture albums and discs of the places we have visited each time we have gone on a trip.......done a Journal for her......all very personal gifts with very little financial outlay....and of no interest or use to any other mother.

This year I bought her a couple of books that she wanted.......and we took the trip to Whitby......we had our lunch out, but we would have been doing that anyway. So I don't feel that our celebration of Mothering Sunday was particularly commercialised.

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Thats a relief. :D

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Mothers Day happened to fall on my son, Harry's, 1st Birthday. We went for a meal to celebrate both.

Harry got me a lovely card and a big Me to You teddy, and some daffodils. I got my Mum some flowers and a herb growing set (she likes that sort of thing) Grandma got Shea Body Butter.

I'd have loved to chill but Harrys not old enough to run around for me yet. Lol!! At least nobody had to cook. Am spending today putting his toys together, and sticking all the stickers on.

Hope everyone else had a brilliant day. :D

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My daughter in Law - Saturday night - she's a very intelligent woman, a computer consultant, and not usually a "dizzy" blonde (she is blonde, though). Two men come into the restaurant, both wearing Leprachaun hats.

"Look at them", says d-i-l.

"Well they're probably Irish. It's St Patrick's day today", says son.

"Oh, I never knew that was the day before Mother's Day", says d-i-l. :rolleyes:

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oh dear i assume mothersday was yesterday then :eek:

OOOOOOOOOPS :o




only kidding my mum would gut me alive if i forgot but i couldnt find a card thanking her for 36 years of fear and intimidation :rolleyes:

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Was down at my sisters after work today - dropping off an invitation for her and her 2 sons were there - she was at work. Youngest upstairs watching tv, playstation etc. Eldest who was 18 a couple of weeks ago was downstairs and being the liberated 18 was having a can of fosters with his mates and his big auntie jen walked in!!! Anyway i made him make me a brew and asked him what he got his mum for mothers day. He said i made her cry! What did you do said i. He said i didnt buy her a card so i wrote her a poem instead and it was really nice thanking her for the last 18 yrs etc. He read it out to me and it was really soppy. I said what did your brother get her he said he made her breakfast in bed! Now he's 14 and dangerous with it!!! :D He made me a butty one day - ham & tomato - whats wrong with that you ask - it was 2 slices of bread with butter 1/2 inch thick on it and then the tomato was cut into 4 slices and it was a big big tomato!!! The slices were at least 1 cm thick. So sis was looked after on mums day. :D Havent seen the other one yet so dont know what she got.

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ah that was sweet of him, doing your own thing for your mum on mothers day is so much better than buying stuff

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I don't know how I missed this thread but never mind. Every time I see My Children and Grandchildren it's Mother's Day.
I had a lovely day. Paul ( direct dj ) and the Grand Children came 1st with card,flowers and a Mother's day C.D.
Then came a card,flowers @ Chocs off MUMMI and Daddiboo. A charm for my bag with a B on it. From Boo n Jack.
I spent the afternoon baking a cake's A Mother's day cake for Mother's Day for MUMMIBOO and a Burfday cake for Daddiboo.
Thank's Mi lovely's.
You made my day.
Love You All.
xxxxxxxxxxx