Sure I can take a rest today. Sure I can go out and have fun and enjoy myself. (Well, I actually can’t since my husband left for Canada this morning… So I am single-parenting for the next ten days…) But really, if things are not taken care of at home TODAY, I know I have to do it TOMORROW.
What is the point?
I hate Mother’s Day.
I am celebrating it by allowing my children to be on the computer all day.
Ok. I don’t really hate Mother’s Day. Over the years I have learned to treat today just like every other Sunday. No expectations. No disappointment.
THIS is also the motto of how I live my life.
Although it kind of became worse when Mr. Monk threw a tantrum because he didn’t like the restaurant I suggested for dinner.
“I don’t want to go to Chef Ping’s!!”
“But today is MOTHER’S DAY!” I guess I can guilt-trip with the best of them.
“I hate Chef Ping’s!”
“Would you like a grilled cheese sandwich instead?”
“I WANT TO GO TO A RESTAURANT FOR MOTHER’S DAY! BUT I DON’T WANT TO GO TO CHEF PING’S!”
“You don’t eat anything else but white rice honey when we go to a Chinese restaurant!”
“NO! I DON’T! Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah…”
Oh lord. Will this day never end?
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Flowers for me from my 7 yo. He took the picture also. This is one of the hundreds of pictures he took of the same subject
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Happy Mother’s Day anyway – with or without Chef Pings!
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Thanks! I felt much better after I vented on my blog. I love it here.
That’s funny – I was working on a post in my head today about why I don’t like Mother’s Day.
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But you were probably too exhausted to write about it. Stories of our lives, eh?
Ouch! Not a great day! Mr. Monk’s lilacs did give me a twinge. They don’t grow very well down here and I do love them so!
Any year you do not feel like celebrating your birthday, you don’t have to add a year to your age. That’s why I’m younger than my daughter now.
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Yeah!! Finally something grows here than in the warm climate! You know I have jasmine envy. 😉 Our 3 lilac bushes grow like crazy. After the blooming period, husb takes the big pruning shear to them in a way that would make yours proud. LOL.
I will be the youngest person in the room since I have been hating my birthdays since 3rd grade.
I just have decided to detest all holidays and am banning them all from my life. Birthdays are the only thing I will acknowledge anymore.
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I am worse: I hate birthdays too. I do love celebrating others’ birthdays, I just find it hard dealing with the angst and disappointment of my own birthdays. I have issues – know. Statistically, significantly high % of people committed suicide on their birthdays. I often wonder why.
True. My husband took the girls out for a few hours yesterday but I cooked dinner.
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Aunt Becky over @ Mommy Wants Vodka had a post on how she views Mother’s Day, that it should be a day to celebrate her children, how their arrival has enriched her life. I wish I had read the post before I whined silently the whole day. Her perspective would have saved me lots of angst. 😉
The flowers are beautiful. My motto is “Expect the absolute worst and anything slightly better will be a like a gift.” Yeah. Let me tell ya’………
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Happy Mother’s Day Lin…They better have sucked it up and gone to your favorite restaurant!!
Gotta go finish cleaning now…a non bacterial house and the time to finally clean it is my gift to me (-:
xxooxo
Awww, Happy Mother’s Day! I spent my day taking care of extra kids while my husband slept since he worked last night. We celebrated by making dinner for my sister’s family — a dinner I could not eat as a vegetarian. 😉 So I know, girl, I know.
And yet, I do so love these crazy people in my life.
I hope you get to relax a bit today!!
someone has him mom’s artistic proclivities. happy mother’s day and i hope you chef ping’s is in your intinerary!
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“No expectations. No disappointment.” I strive to reach this level of Zen. Aaaand, I fail. But I think you’ve got the right idea.
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It’s something I am working on still. I found out right away tis easier said than done…
I know how you feel!
I remember a day, long ago, one weekend – when I was sick as a dog. A 24 hour virus had me vomiting all day. I spent the day in bed, or in the bathroom, or just lying on the floor inbetween.
My lovely husband took care of the kids, fed them, entertained them, put them to bed – ALL day.
I wobbled downstairs the next day feeling fragile to be greeted by THE BIGGEST MESS the earth has ever seen. A week’s worth of dishes in the sink, a month’s worth of dirty clothes in the back room, and every single toy and book on the floor.
It was like being punished for being ill. It took me a whole week to get back to normal.
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Oh my lord. That sounds awful! Makes you want to go back to bed right away, doesn’t it?! It’s like I need a Mother’s Day for handling the Day After Mother’s Day. LOL. I can’t wait to read your post. The title alone is intriguing… 😉