Sadly, my mom is no longer around, but I’d love to hear how you celebrate yours.
Do you make a special meal? Take her out to brunch on “amateur day” at a fancy restaurant?
Those of you who are moms — is your partner doing something nice for you? Are your kids, if they are old enough?
I’d include pet moms here as well since I am one myself… but we all know they’re pretty useless when it comes to preparing elaborate meals, or wrapping gifts 
Every day is mother’s day for me.
I do not need Hallmark to tell me when to show appreciation for the most important person in my life.
I don’t think anybody “needs” Hallmark to tell them how and when to celebrate their mom.
That said, and — as evidenced by calendars the world 'round — many folks (you specifically excluded, of course) celebrate Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May. Over 100 countries, in fact, most of which may have never heard of Hallmark.
Your mother is one lucky gal.
Mothering Sunday/Mother’s Day in the UK is the fourth Sunday of Lent. In Sweden, it’s the last Sunday in May. Spain and Portugal, first Sunday in May. Other countries different dates in the spring. I hope Hallmark doesn’t market in most of them.
My mom and I both agree that restaurants on “amateur days” like Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day are a big hassle. Lately, we’ve been doing something the day before or after, or I take her to Home Goods and she picks out candles and picture frames.
She loves mushrooms, so I try to find an interesting recipe to make on the day if I can. This year I think I’m going to make this one from the NY Times:
Now that she’s getting older, I make sure to help her as much as I can. When she balks, I remind her that she taught me how to use a spoon 
That makes her laugh and she will then let me take her to the grocery store.
It’s a different day in Germany, too.
The topic was less about when you celebrate it, but how. Hopefully, we can get back to that
What a nice tradition to have! Thank you so much for sharing 
I’ve decided to celebrate my Mother’s Day on May 31, which is the day she died 2 years ago.
Since she loved food about as much as I do, I foresee any number of delicious treats coming my way.
Mother’s Day is increasingly commercialised in the UK. I avoid restaurants like the plague on that day as it is crazy busy, with bad value ‘special’ menus. I am a mother but we don’t really celebrate in any way. I sometimes try and make my kid feel bad about how my abdomen looks now permanently after he stretched it out by living inside it for nearly 10 months and he just replies that I’m the one who chose to have a kid!
So, nobody’s celebrating their moms tomorrow, or is being celebrated by their families?
How curious.
Family work schedules dictated an early Mother’s Day dinner. The dotter and her posslq visited (with the ever entertaining grand cat) for 2 days and helped on seasonal yard work, window and screen cleanings and dinner preparations. On Thursday huge rib eye steaks were grilled by the roomate, a huge mixed green salad was put together by the dotter and posslq and I put together the baked potatoes and a fresh spring rhubarb (donated by a friend) pie. Burp!
I will wish the DIL, mother of 3 +1/2, a very happy Mother’s Day, since we won’t be seeing them this time around. I send Mother’s Day greetings out to all my female friends, they are all mothers in one way or another.
Happy Mother’s Day to all!
Lovely!
My mother passed in 1987.
My mother-in-law lives 1800 miles away, so earlier in the week I DoorDashed her lunch from an Italian restaurant near her house (cheese platter, assorted bruschetta, meatballs with goat cheese). It was enough to last her and my FIL at least 3 meals.
My son lives 1600 miles away, so he sent me 2 dozen roses. He is a relatively new papa so he will be making his wife a rib roast to go with the strawberry-themed desserts he purchased.
I requested southern food from a place I love for today and shrimp fra diavolo for tomorrow from my husband. We will probably have spicy POG margaritas in the backyard as long as the weather stays nice, which it should.
Thank you for sharing. I’m sure many of our HOs are in a similar situation, which may explain the surprising lack of responses 
My mother died in '95, and MIL lives thousands of miles away. We will visit next month.
I will be attending Children’s Mental Health Spring Advocacy Day in Sacramento on Monday, so I will be in a hotel there. My family will join me for dinner at Ella’s in Sacramento for dinner.
Nice! Being celebrated as a mom is also a major part of Mother’s Day
A beautiful tribute by Heather Cox Richardson.
Mom and I celebrated yesterday. We had a lovely Chinese dinner (her choice), and I followed her around Home Goods while she picked out new dishes and a massive scented candle. My SO was working at our local last night, so we stopped in to see him for a cocktail and and he made her a lovely pina colada, her favorite. She was thrilled by all of it.
I wish all the Moms here on HO a lovely Mother’s Day!
I love everything about this! What a fab way to celebrate with your mom & including your SO. Nice when everyone gets along
Here is a favorite pic of my mom when she must’ve been around 3 or 4 years old, in 1951. She was what they used to call a tomboy.
I love the look of defiance and curiosity in her eyes, and wish I’d met her before life happened 
But who knows what she was really thinking when this was taken.
That is a great pic of your mom! I might have to dig out the old photo albums soon. It’s been a long time since we looked through them.
Hope you have a good day–I remember you saying you were going to celebrate later in the month on the anniversary of her passing. I wish you nothing but good memories of her. 
