Whatcha Doin' For Your Mama?

[roni]

Originally Posted by FrankRN

My mom has finally semi-embraced technology. She loves the IPOD we gave her and uses it on her daily walks. I loaded some music on it for her, but she is pretty sick of listening to the same songs. I've tried to teach her how to steal music off of the internet like the rest of the world, but she is too skeered. So I got her a large denomination I-Tunes gift card for mothers day.

At least now I will personally know at least one person who came by their music collection legally.

I did. I support intellectual and artistic property rights.

[FrankRN]

Originally Posted by roni

I did. I support intellectual and artistic property rights.

If you purchase your music and I "acquire" it, than between the two of us I figure they are getting a fair price.

[Mamacita]

My mom's in California and just home from a big trip to Washington DC, so the best I could do was mail some cards, a family portrait, and some more pics of the grandkids.

My MIL is here and FIL is just released from the hospital, so instead of hosting them at our house I'll schlep all the food I bought to her house and cook it. I do what I can. It's weird because my dad died in 1986, and that was the year I got engaged to my husband, when I did the math, I've known my in-laws longer than I knew my own father. Different relationship, obviously, but something to ponder.

I miss my mom. Wish she would move here.

[Shammy]

I wish I had a mom to be with, or to send a card to..I had two and now I have none...... but I am a mom so that's pretty great too! Tomorrow I will be going to a special tag team instructor class at the gym and then finishing up getting 6 tons of stone off my driveway so I can get my backyard ready for the pool opening next week. Sounds like fun, eh?

Enjoy everyone!

[Mamacita]

Sorry Sham. I'm in your boat on Fathers Day. I have a
step dad, but it's not the same, we're not too close, and I have a FIL, again, not close. So I'm there, fatherless. Big hugs to you that you have a great day and are celebrated as a great mom!!!

[Shammy]

Originally Posted by Mamacita

Sorry Sham. I'm in your boat on Fathers Day. I have a step dad, but it's not the same, we're not too close, and I have a FIL, again, not close. So I'm there, fatherless. Big hugs to you that you have a great day and are celebrated as a great mom!!!

Gracias! And sadly, I am in the same boat for Father's Day too! Maybe I'll make hubby clean the pool top to bottom - after all, it's HIS day!

[Andiline]

I bought her a flower for the rooftop deck and I am going to see her today. She doesn't want anything for mother's day though (thursday is her birthday anyway ).

Andrea

[jflattracker]

I made my Mom a ring and she in now in New Mexico and won't be here! We are taking John's Mom out to dinner and got her a hydrangea for her yard!
I don't know what the kids and John are planning! Probably a trip to the nursery for plants!

[Joana]

Mom and I are having dinner together tonight- fitting day, my birthday colliding with mothers day......
She is getting a box of sweets and an orchid- which I bought Friday and which decided after only two days in my household to throw around it's leaves!!
But Mom knows that plants hate me- so she'll just laugh that off......

[JoanieBlon]

Originally Posted by Shammy

I wish I had a mom to be with, or to send a card to..I had two and now I have none...... but I am a mom so that's pretty great too!

My mom died in 2003, my dad died 1990, and my only sister died in 1999. I never had children, so I am the sole surviving member of my immediate "blood" family. Makes me feel VERY lonely at times. I don't know what I would do if I lost Mike. I still really miss my mom around holidays (so does Mike) as we used to really enjoy getting gifts for her and also enjoyed the thoughtful gifts she would send to us.

Happily, I have been "adopted" by Mike's Mom and all of his 5 brothers and sisters, who, with their spouses, children and grandchildren, ALL live in the immediate Tampa area. 12 of us got together yesterday at the home one of Mike's sisters for a cookout/potluck dinner to celebrate Mother's Day. All of Mike's brothers and sisters have a VERY strong bond as their dad deserted the family (ran off to California with his secretary) while his children were quite young (the youngest was a baby) and the family endured some terribly hard times together. This was pre-computer days, when it was next to impossible to track down deadbeat dads. Mike's mom took a job working in a casket family to support herself and her family and now has chronic obstructively respiratory disease (COPD) as a result. She's on constant oxygen and not in the best of health, so we try to get together with her as a family as much as we possibly can as we don't know just how much longer she'll be with us.

[sctx]

I took my mom out for lunch last weekend before we jetted down here.... yesterday I found a very nice lady in akumal that made a little silver corazon necklace for her..... only 80 pesos, but it''l make mom cry

[MikeW]

Bonny is taking her mother, sister and nieces out for breakfast this morning.

Bonny, my son Michael, and I are going over to visit my mother this afternoon for about an hour or two. Michael has not seen her for about 6 months. My mom has been battling cancer for almost 2 years, receives chemo treatments about once a month. If mom is up to it we will go out to do dinner with her and my dad.

[Eileencc]

In a couple of hours, we'll go and pick up my mom and we'll be heading to Charlie's brother's house for a barbecue for all the moms in the family--mine, my mother in law, my sisters-in-law, and my sister-in-law's mom...a nice day because I get to spend it with my mom and my mother-in-law, rather than splitting up in different directions or running all over creation. The bittersweet part is that my daughter Kelsey won't be home from college until next weekend. She will be missed today.

[cpfstich]

I took today off, so I can take my Mom out to lunch and Pat out to dinner tonight.

[Bevoz]

My Son came over to my place last night and cooked me a wonderful seafood dinner ,BBQ pineapple with ice cream and Kalua YUMMMY... I have wonder boys....love them to death.