Phone call, and an offer to pick up the tab for whatever, turned down as usual.
I bought mine a really nice hanging flower basket and a a card. My father is in the hospital so I gave them to her in the hospital parking lot while I was visiting. It is my SO’s birthday so I couldn’t spend the day with her, but we went out just last week end.
I called.
Later this week, though, I get to show off where I now live. 
She’s up in Virginia now attending my cousin’s graduation from William and Mary, but I left two very nice bottles of wine dressed up in little Chinese dresses for her as a surprise for when she gets home. We can drink them next week.
My mom is on a cruise, so I had to make do with a card she will see when she gets back.
I picked up my Mom, picked up her boyfriend, and took them both to play pool, because that’s what she really wanted to do. We had a nice time. I also got her a card and some chocolate.
We all took Mum out for a picnic after the Pentecost mass yesterday. it was fine, though a bit chilly.
My mother died many years ago; my mother-in-law’s birthday is today, so we celebrated it with Mother’s Day. I baked her a cake and went over for brunch, took her a couple of nice gifts and visited for a while. Now home to relax and soon to bed. Yawn.
Yesterday the family was gathered at ye olde homeplace for a cookout. Mom lurves here a cookout, so she loved it. I got here a giftcard from WallyWorld. Yeah, I know, WW woohoo and all that… however, she’s goin’ on a cruise to Bermuda week after next and was mentionin’ needing to go shopping for all the stuff she’ll need like sunblock, toiletries, etc and I thought, hmmmm… all that stuff can be bought at W*W, so I got her the card. She liked it and immediately said how she could use it to buy all that stuff, so I done good! 
Besides that, I got her a white orchid corsage to wear to church this morning. My younger brother, who passed away six years ago, always did this for her for Mother’s Day along with a commemorative “Mother’s Day Plate”. So, in honor of him and because she always loved it, I have continued getting her the corsage and my sis (bro’s twin, BTW) gets her the plate from wherever it comes from. Ya know, we could give Mom a million bucks each for Mother’s Day but I don’t think that would mean anywhere near as much as us doing this for her in memory of our brother and her youngest son.
We went out to a nice restaurant Saturday to avoid the crowds.
Then I get a call at 9:15pm that night that my mother (age 69) had fallen down the stairs and has been taken by ambulance to the hospital 1.5 miles from my apartment. Spent the next two hours dealing with that.
She’s fine, nothing broken, but she’s pretty banged up. Went to see her today. She asked me to do some things for her tomorrow and tuesday, saying that she should be fine by Wednesday. Um, No mom. You’ll be sore all week. Don’t push it.
I wished my friends who are moms ‘Happy Mother’s Day’. Because my mom passed away in 1996 and I still miss her. Extra hug for the kids.
Let’s see…let’s start with the basics…do you two have kids? If yes, then you get your wife a Mother’s Day gift because she is the mother to your children…you made her a mom, now honor the job you stuck her with for life. Question 2…are your kids old enough to either be earning their own money to buy their own gifts, or old enough to make something on their own? If no, then you help them honor their mother by taking them out shopping or by helping them make something and keep it a secret. And you give their mother a gift so that they will see that you appreciate that she cares for your children, and by example they will learn to show their appreciation to you and to others in their lives…and learn that the world isn’t all about them.
As for my own mom, I gave her a book of historical pictures of our city, which contained a picture of my sister and I. I didn’t realize the photo was in there when I bought it, so that was an added bonus. I pulled her car out of the garage and turned it around for her, and I helped her get her earring into her ear today when she had trouble. And I found the mother’s necklace we all gave her for Christmas that she had dropped and couldn’t find for months, and added an extender to it so that she could wear it today to church. And my brother came over to do some work on the coldframes so that she can plant her vegetables later in the week.
We don’t go in for the usual gifts!
I sent my mom some flowers. I also called her, and we talked, and we cried together a bit because it was also twenty years to the day since her mother, my dear nan, died 
I invited my mother over for a cook out but she has not been feeling well so she just wanted to stay home and rest. So we threw in a baked potato and fired up the grill. My BF cooked her the steak we had already bought for her and I took it all over to her. She was pretty surprised and happy.
I spent the rest of the day with my two kids and the BF. It was a nice relaxing day.
I sent my mom two cheesecakes from Eli’s. We WERE going to take MIL out for dinner or brunch, but Saturday night while at the brother in law’s girlfriend’s mom’s house where she was going for an early Mother’s Day Dinner, she fell, cracking her shoulder in three places. So she got a hospital dinner instead. And possibly upcoming surgery depending on what the bone doctor finds.
My son bought me two CD’s I’ve been wanting.
My own mom? I called her pretty early in the morning. We couldn’t talk for long, as she was on her way out.
My GF had me over for dinner, which she cooked. It was just going to be the two of us plus her kids, but some of her friends dropped by to share in the festivities. It was my first time meeting the daughter. We started out by walking through a cemetary, and finding the kids’ grandfather. Then it was back to her place to make dinner. I had already prepared a pretty nice dessert, and during dessert I bestowed her with a card and a couple of gifts.
Cooked dinner for her (with homemade spaghetti sauce with Bambi) and bought outdoor flowers for her flowerpots.
My three kiddies and my hubby got me a ipod nano and a itunes giftcard. Oh, the decisions! 
I took my mom out to a champagne lunch a week ago when she was in town and called her on Mother’s Day. She left me a really nice card.
Unfortunately, my own Mother’s Day kind of sucked. It started out well, with me getting a few hours to myself in the morning, but deteriorated quickly from there when my husband came down with a bug and my toddler realized how great a tool guilt is. Once I realized what he was doing and calmly explained to him that, while I understood he was grumpy and tired, that didn’t mean we could watch Fraggle Rock all evening, he followed me around and howled until it sunk in that nothing would come of it. He’s either really tenacious, really dim or both because it took about an hour and a half and involved much choking and snorting since he really worked himself into a state.
Sadly, I sat home and worried, and got short-tempered at my friends. (Very, very sorry, Angel of the Lord).
The night before moms’ day, I went out and got a card and a nice little gift, and the morning of, I got an emergency call from my dad saying my mom had passed out at dinner the night before and was in the hospital. Turns out what happened was her stomach went through a small bit of damage in her diaphragm and pushed up against her heart. It’s a thing that could’ve caused a lot more damage than it did, and, luckilly, she’s home now and feeling better, but… I spent my mothers’ day worrying about my mom and being unfair to my friends. I’m not real proud of it.
I read that last paragraph a little quickly and missed that you were talking about your toddler. It very nearly made sense when I thought you were talking about your sick husband.