I don't like Mother's Day

Is anybody else brave enough to agree with this?  It isn't that I don't appreciate the thought and all the wonderful gestures, it is just the commercial pressure to make it an amazing day, just one day. I think it all started shortly after my mother died and I was faced with the shops full of encouragement to buy something wonderful for your mother.  If only, I don’t have a mother any more.  I found it heartbreaking, and still do.

In the couple of months before the day, I feel I am being assaulted from every direction with offers to 'Make Mothers Day special' and 'Give your Mother the perfect gift', every business has jumped on the bandwagon to promote an event which can be so painful for many. I hope my girls don’t feel under pressure to make sure they have bagged a present to make me happy, simply because the rest of the country have been teased into a frenzy by media hype.  They try to make me smile every day.  I know they try their best to be helpful and thoughtful and that is how it should be.

I was treated to a ‘kitchen ban’ whilst they prepared a tasty meal, and in the evening was invited to a table set with flowers from the garden, a plate of wicked red velvet cupcakes, a bottle of bubbly and two beautifully created homemade cards.  I always use the cards as bookmarks in my cookery books and whilst cooking will come across lovely memories of the girls and their developing creative talents!   But no special lunch booked in a packed out restaurant, full of families trying to make their Mum feel special for just one day in the year. Also, they know me better than to bring a bunch of over priced flowers over the threshold, it is far more exciting to be surprised by a few blooms, for no reason at all.

I hope all Mothers enjoyed a lovely day and the children will remember to be thoughtful every day.  I am still chuckling at a comment from Major Darling, she said I really must go and sit down for half an hour, I've been on my feet in this kitchen all day! I know the feeling!