So. Was it Good for You?

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:30:00 GMT

Mother's Day is nearly over. Thank God!! Partners and their baby mamas everywhere are breathing a collective sigh of relief, children are high on the sugar from the early morning pancakes, phone calls have been made (it's not too late!!).

So. How was yours?

After all the Mother's Day sniping and reconsideration, our house was harmonious today. Breakfast in bed, pretty earrings, and blue nail polish. Sweet cards and helpful husbands.

It may be cliche and predictable, humdrum, and bourgeois, but it was grand.

Mother's Day Reconsidered

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:27:00 GMT

If snarking about Mother's Day were an Olympic Event, some of us at Strollerderby would take home the Gold. The pressure! The bad gifting! The adult children of parents who married several times!

It really is all too much. But the Angel of Gratefulness has changed all that.

Seriously. This statue is just the kind of thing mamas of a certain age really love. Mine in particular. I like to think she's high maintenance and somewhat hard to please but it just ain't so. This statue made her cry when she found it on her front porch today. And it took so little time to make her day.

One of the comments on the "Why I Dread Mother's Day" post from last week also struck a chord:

Don't think that this can't/won't happen to you someday because I've been a good Mom and my adult children would agree if you asked. I also raised them to behave more considerately of others. It's just that this stage of their lives is sooooooo self-absorbing that they just can't see their own behavior. It will change someday and I hope I'm alive to see it. Until then, Mother's Day just plain sucks.

And then I thought how sad I'll be one day when I hear my daughters complain (as they likely will) about the fact that I get hurt by their thoughtlessness. The Angel of Gratefulness is schmaltzy and silly, but it made her day, and that is something I should endeavor to do more often.

Strollerderby : i hate mother's day

So. Was it Good for You?

Mother's Day Reconsidered