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Permalink Reply by Amber on May 1, 2008 at 10:28am

On Mother's Day my husband usually makes me breakfast in bed with flowers and a special gift from him and our baby girl. (like a mom shirt, cards and special pictures). Then we always go out with my mom and his mom and his sister and all us moms celebrate at a nice place to eat. :-)

Permalink Reply by Rachel on May 6, 2008 at 8:11pm

This is my first Mother's Day as a mom so I will just share what I do for my mom. Every year I use the Ivory Letter Booklet to write her a letter about how much I have appreciated her over the course of that year. Sometimes I buy her flowers or chocolate too. She keeps the letters in the Love Letters box. This year though my sis and I decided to do something extra special b/c she became a grandma for the first time and lost her mother (within a week). She's dreading Mother's Day this year so we are going to use the Mother's Day book to create a memory book for her. We are going to use the Through the Generations idea and fill pages with the beautiful women in our family. The last one will be my Grandma. We want to leave space for Mom to journal or add pictures or her own. We are going to make a pocket or two as well...maybe on the back of each page...for her to write her favorite memories of each woman in our family. I think it will help make Mother's Day easier.

Permalink Reply by Jackie on May 7, 2008 at 9:08pm

Where I live Mother's Day tends to coincide with our state's fishing opener so we spend the weekend up at my in-law's cabin with my father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, my niece, my nephew, my husband, our four boys and myself. The men in our lives go up a weekend or so before to get the cabin ready for Mother's Day. They take very good care of us, celebrate us as mothers and also give us some alone time as well. Yes, they get something out of the weekend too but I feel I get so much more. Perhaps not what other moms would consider an ideal Mother's Day but in our family it is has become a tradition, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Permalink Reply by Paula Dumas on May 9, 2008 at 11:09pm

I currently use the mothers day album probably like the tags says since I always forget to read the tag I'm not sure. (HE HE) Consultant joke. Anyways, I tell my kids for mothers day I just want a photo with each or them individually (since we have four big job). I put the picture of me and each child in a book for each and on the opposite page I write why I love being their mother and what has been special about that year as their mom! So far we've only done it once so I'm excited to add another year!
Paula Dumas

Permalink Reply by Michelle Fozounmayeh on May 10, 2008 at 7:11am

Our Church has a tradition that we take part in. We are all asked to bring flowers, one for each "mother" in our life. For the ones living and the ones who have passed on. And we have a table up front. During worship everyone takes turns walking up and placing the flowers up on the table. What is left is a beautiful bouquet of flowers. All kinds of varieties, colors, shapes and smells. It is so beautiful and a wonderful way to honor the mothers in our lives. My kids get so excited to find a nice flower from our garden and walk up on their own and place the flower on the table to honor me. When I see the flowers all together up there it reminds me of how we are all different and unique, but each of us adds beauty to the big picture and we matter a whole lot to someone. I usually will place a flower for my mom and also a few in honor of some mentor “moms” I have in my life.

Permalink Reply by Jennie on May 11, 2008 at 6:22pm

Being a mother of 3 children - with a large age difference, I have received many "hand made" cards/ gifts on Mother's Day. While each is so very unique and special , it is hard to save them neatly , especially on construction paper. I have gathered my Mother's Day gifts that my 19 year old son had made over the years; my 10 year old daughter and my 7 year old son, and stored them safely in a special memory box just for MOM. Each Mother's Day - I read the special cards and re-live the gifts that were made just for me. This year after having Breakfast in bed - the kids (as they always do- with exception of the teenager, who is still in bed:)) come running in my room with their creations. I cannot wait to see this years project. A corduroy purse with a "J" beaded on the front- and a poem titled " Hazel so Hazel ", by my 7 year old, which I would love to share; There are many shades of hazel, hazel can be ... as green as soft grass, as brown as a new crayon, as green as a big leaf, as brown as a shiny penny, as green as a shiny turtle shell, but the best hazel of all is the HAZEL of your Eyes! We all attend church together , and then celebrate with my mother and my sister's afterwards !
Jennie Gnojek
Happy Mother's Day - May you be blessed by your children's memories

Permalink Reply by Krystin Ciesco on May 12, 2008 at 5:39pm

We do the normal Mother's Day stuff. Cards, gifts, breakfast, etc as well as a day adventure (this year it was the lighthouse at Point Reyes in California). We also go out to dinner as well as capture the day with pictures. But when I did something this mother's day that was simple and unintentional, I wasn't thinking about it being a tradition but after doing it, I plan on doing in the future too.

Simply put, I gave my girls a gift to thank them because if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be a mom! T

Permalink Reply by Wildmom on May 27, 2008 at 7:05pm

We did a few new FUN things this year for Mother's Day. We made the garden stepping stones for all the grandmas and great grandma's got one and of course, I had them make a set for me! We made 9 stones in total. It was so much fun and everyone LOVED them!

I also started a new tradition to use my Once Upon A Family Mother's Day albums. With my daughter I took her picture in my wedding dress. She thought she was a princess! It's a tradition that I hope to continue to do each year with her and put it in her album.

With my son I took a picture of his hand and mine together to go into his album. I think that both of these will be fun traditions to see how my children grow through the years.

Of course my hubby and the kids also made me breakfast in bed and I was the "Queen-of-the-Day". I didn't have to do any of the work! Yeah!

Permalink Reply by Holly on May 30, 2008 at 8:14pm

I love the idea of the picture with your hands together. I am going to start doing this too! Thank you for the great idea!

Permalink Reply by Wildmom on June 2, 2008 at 8:12am

I really liked it because it reminds me of the movie "Beaches"...remember when she is looking through all the old pictures to try to find one of her mom's hand? I just thought it was cool and that my kids someday might like to have pictures of our hands.

Permalink Reply by Holly on May 30, 2008 at 8:11pm

I can't claim this tradition as my own, but I wanted to share it anyway! I have a friend whose family has a tablecloth that they put their handprints on every mother's day. They pull it out and put new handprints on it and use the tablecloth for the specially prepared Mother's Day meal.

Permalink Reply by Roxanne Poe on May 31, 2008 at 1:33am

Every mother's day, after we go out to dinner and spend the day with my children and my mother, I take time to write a letter to each of my children. First I tell them what we did that mothers day and about any gifts i received, then I sort of glance over the last year since the previous mothers day, and write a summary about the year---such as any major milestones---learning to swim, 1st day of kindergarten, a birth or death in the family, etc---anything that I think they (and I) would like to remember when they get older. I am saving these letters for them to read when they are grown---I think I will save them for their first mothers day as a mother, then let them read them, and maybe they will want to start the same tradition.

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