Mother's Day

I'm generally a bit in two minds about Mother's Day, while part of me thinks it's a good thing to have a reminder to think about and appreciate all that our mothers do for us, I really don't like the huge commercialisation that has come to be inevitable with any day of this sort.

M in particular really likes doing things on such days and, since they generally involve her making or doing things, rather than succumbing to spending money, it's rather sweet.  This morning I was brought breakfast in bed, made and carried up stairs (I think it's the first time she's done that bit!) by her.  Last night she gave me 'a clue' about what my present was going to be, when she came into the front room wearing just an old pillowcase with holes cut for arms and head.

M the House Elf!

This morning though, she told me that she had been going to be my house elf for the day, but had decided that it was too cold for that.  She did, however, lend me her new ocarina, which I can use to summon her if I need anything.  I have also received two cards from her, both early because she couldn't wait to give them, one computer generated and printed from a Dora the Explorer website and one she'd made herself.  K has also given me one from the Dora website.  Apart from that I have been given two chunks of the chocolate bar she bought (there were 6 chunks, so A & K were given one each and she and I had two, M because she'd bought it and me because it's Mother's Day) and a few other things from her and K.

Necklace from K, which she made with beads from a pack she got from the scrapstore last week.

An alien from M, who she made ages ago at Fun Club.

Plasticine rainbow scene from M.

At the end of church this morning (K had stayed at home with A), the children were invited forward to take a daffodil to give to their mother and then the priest added that of course they could take one for any grannies too.  I was sitting next to an elderly lady, who was on her own, so I quietly asked M if she would get one for the lady if she was a granny or mummy and M agreed that she would.  When I asked the lady, she told me in heavily accented, broken English that she was both and, when M went and got a daffodil and gave it to her, was obviously very touched.

In other news today, I finally finished reading The Order of the Phoenix and this afternoon we watched the film, while A was out referring two korfball matches.  Yes, my husband was out for most of the afternoon doing sporty things on Mother's Day and indeed went to cricket nets on Valentine's Day, but since I'm appreciated all year round I don't have a problem with that in the slightest, particularly since he's now home and cooking for us all, which he does most Sundays anyway!  Give me a husband and father to our children like that than one who makes a big fuss on these days but doesn't do anything the rest of the time any day, thank you very much. :-)