Nothing. My mother has been dead for almost 40 years and my mother-in-law for almost 25. I’m sure I will get a phone call from my daughter, but other than that maybe a movie and a hamburger at McDonalds.
Going to my inlaws-in-law for a cookout. I really don’t want to be there, but my mother-in-law indicated it means a lot to have her sons and their wives around for mother’s day, so I’m going to suck it up and go.
I’ll send my mom a card and I’ll call her. Can’t do much more than that.
My kids probably have something planned for me.
Hubster and I might go to the cemetery to say “hi” to Momma and Daddy.
I bought one of those Flowering Tea dealies for my daughter for Mother’s Day. She has given me the Center of the Universe (COTU) and is expecting COTU2 in August.
~VOW
On Mother’s Day I will actually tell my mother why I told her to not plan anything for June 2 (I’m taking her to see Carmina Burana at the Hartford Symphony Hall). That’s it. On June 2 though she’ll find out the other half of her gift, which is that my sister is coming from 300 miles away to join us at the opera.
Nope, I didn’t forget, but I had to pick other. A family high school graduation is scheduled for Mother’s Day. Stupid school. The moms in our family will have a separate party, on another day.
We are going to see The Avengers on Saturday. I have no clue what else they have planned. Sunday we’ll go to see hubby’s mom. She’s been in rehab for several months, and we will be happy to have her home on May 30.
My grandmother passed on May 5, 1985, and even after all these years, Mother’s Day is still somewhat empty. I was at college, and saw the sign about Mother’s Day; but I thought it said April for some reason. I panicked, picked out a card, signed it and sent it home. Turns out that she never would have received that card if I would have waited.
You forgot the option :
My mother is a physical and emotionally abusive bitch.
Meflin
My mom’s long gone. And still missed.
My mother has been dead for many years. I am no longer a mother, since my son died. There is only hubby’s mom, who is in her late 80s and can’t have candy or other treats. She neither needs nor wants trinkets, so hubby will call her, if we can’t make the trip and we will send a nice flower arrangement.
BTW, for Father’s Day, we send a plant that Pop can plant in their miniscule back yard. That way, he can still feel useful.
My mom is gone, and my grandma is gone, and greatly missed. So, I’ll try to make my MIL’s day a little nicer.
Pressies and a card. Small, thoughtfull things. The more impressive gifts are given on her birthday - Saturday. Woe betide anyone who thinks that one present will do for both celebrations! We’re up to four for the weekend, one each from me and the kid for each day.
Also taking part in the MD breakfast my dad and kid are puttting on for mum and me. I’ve already had an early box of licorice, because the kid knew I was feeling flu’ey and is an angel.
Hmmm how to ask this …
Do you personally feel this way, or is this something that’s been impressed upon you, or what?
Whether your child is still around or not … to me you are indeed a mother!
And I’m so sorry for your loss 
hugs
As for me … I am a mother, and I lost my mom last year. For Mother’s Day last year, we went to the zoo. This year … no zoo, I just want to ignore the day altogether though.
For me, I’ll be on vacation in Seattle. We’ll be going out for brunch.
I got my mother two books about crime investigation and forensic pathology at a conference I was at last weekend–one by Henry Lee and one by Michael Baden. They both signed them for her, which was awesome. My mom will live them.
My mother-in-law is getting a bracelet and a restaurant gift card.
Thank you. Although, it’s been 12 years, Mother’s Day is still hard.
No one has ever told me I’m no longer a mother, it’s just how I feel.
I’m sorry for your loss too. {{{PandaBear77}}}
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It will be spent relaxing and missin my mom like crazy who died almost 2 years ago… 
My deepest condolences for your loss. I’m sure the manufactured holiday, “Mother’s Day,” deepens the pain.
I do not know the loss of losing a child, but I did lose my mother fourteen years ago. It still hurts, it will always hurt. I feel it most keenly now that I’m a grandmother.
We all use different means to assuage the pain. My daughter and her husband named their daughter for Momma, and I love it.
After Momma died, the first Mother’s Day was the absolute hardest. Momma did volunteer work to help kids for many, many years. My sister and I were looking for a way to turn our grief around, and we came upon the idea to make a donation to the local Ronald MacDonald House.
Sam’s Club had a full sheet cake in the bakery case, I guess someone ordered it and then didn’t pick it up. We bought the cake, had the bakery lady write “Happy Everything” on it, and then delivered it to the Ronald MacDonald House.
It’s a beautiful place, and the families are beyond grateful for the service it provides. Trying to maintain two homes, however, is absolutely budget breaking, and there isn’t always money for the little extras. The families we met were excited, and the kids, as sick as they were, definitely knew what “cake” meant.
We were invited to stay and share the cake. But my sister and I needed to leave, so we could go sob in the parking lot.
~VOW
We’re taking Mom for Hawaiian fusion brunch. Then we’re going to a concert that one of Tom Scud’s cousins is playing in, with some of his family (not his mom; she lives on another continent). I suppose we’ll call his mom at some point.
Family dinner at my sister’s house. Card for my mother.