Mother’s Day Tips
Jennifer Donovan is a contributing editor for 5 Minutes for Mom and blogs at Snapshot.
We are joining up with Capessa to present 10 Tips for Celebrating Mother’s Day. Five of our tips are here, and five more tips can be found HERE on Capessa’s site. If you’d like to be entered to win a $200 American Express gift certificate, leave a comment on this post giving your favorite tip from each site.
5 Things to do for Yourself for Mother’s Day
- Take some time to reflect on your year as a mom. Make a journal entry or write yourself a letter chronicling the ups and downs of parenting.
- Instead of joining the Sunday crowds at restaurants, do something together as a family. See a movie, have a picnic or a pizza at the park, or go on a hike.
- Sleep late! Your hubby can handle the kids’ morning routine, and they might surprise you with a gourmet breakfast in bed (or soggy cereal, but it’s the thought that counts, right?).
- Alone on Mother’s Day? Team up with other single moms and their kids to celebrate. Do something fun that you and the kids all enjoy.
- Do you want to be alone on Mother’s Day? Don’t feel guilty about taking some time away. After you’ve celebrated as a family, escape by yourself for a couple hours to browse a bookstore or meet up with a girlfriend.
Click HERE to read the other five tips on Capessa’s site. If you’d like to be entered to win a $200 American Express gift certificate, leave a comment on this post telling us your favorite tip from each site.
We’ll post the winner on May 4.
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I like the tip to team up with other single moms.
Mother’s day is all about you! Sleep in, get a massage, and go out to the fanciest restaurant ever! Oh and eat some chocolate!
We celebrate Mother’s Day the day before or after with lunch out at a restaurant. Avoids the lines-who wants to wait in long lines to celebrate their “Mother’s Day”?
Mother’s day is my day to pamper myself with a mini spa at home and my hubby cooks the main meal of the day.
Spend time with my kids.
take the day off from chores, buy a plant
I like the idea of getting matching plants from the Capessa site. We’ve both always loved plants.
From 5 Minutes for Mom I like the journaling idea. I don’t do enough of that!
The main thing is to spend time with your mom.
i love the idea of buying matching flowers and spending time with the family, not just at a restaurant. it would be great to combine the two and have a family outing to buy the perfect flowers and then come back to plant them in the backyard and then take a potted one into the office. happy mothers day to all and thanks for the sweepstakes!
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I like the idea of writing a letter to yourself!
I also like the scrapbook idea on the other site!
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love to win
I love the “Sleep late!” tip from this site and the “invite her over for a special meal or take her out for lunch or dinner in lieu of a gift” tip from the Capessa site.
Instead of just buying a card for Mother’s Day, write your mother a letter. Tell her everything you love about her…mention a wonderful time the two of you shared during the past year. So much better than signing your name to someone else’s thoughts. Your mom will treasure such a personal letter.
If you can’t visit your Mother on Mother’s Day, please call her early in the day so she won’t spend the day wondering whether you remembered her. It’s heartbreaking when your Mother is all alone and knows you didn’t think to call her or send a card. EVERY Mother should be honored on Mother’s Day.
I love the eat out idea for me an my mom. I am a homeschool mom and a caterer, so my mom often helps me with catering jobs. Since I won’t let my husband in my kitchen (except to wash dishes), a day letting someone else cook is just what we need!
I like to pack up and take the kids and dad for a bike ride around the lake and have a picnic at the park.
My favorite tip on this site is Sleep Late because it seems like moms can never get enough sleep especially those with young children. It would be nice if they could get some extra sleep for one day though. On Capessa’s site, my favorite tip is perhaps celebrating Mother’s Day by having a Mother-Daughter outing. I like this idea because I always want to get closer to my mom and having an outing could help us grow closer.
sleeping in and plant a garden
Family Picnic tip + PLease enter me into your contest, thank you.
My favorite tip from this site:
3. Sleep late! Your hubby can handle the kids’ morning routine, and they might surprise you with a gourmet breakfast in bed (or soggy cereal, but it’s the thought that counts, right?).
My favorite Capessa tip:
4. Can’t be with your mom on Mother’s Day? Send her two gift certificates for manicure or pedicure so that she treat a friend.
Buy her and yourself an indoor plant or some outdoor flowers of the same variety. Watching them grow will remind you of each other throughout the year.
Alone on Mother’s Day? Team up with other single moms and their kids to celebrate. Do something fun that you and the kids all enjoy.
Sleep Late! – favorite by far!
Buy a plant! – even though it’s more than likely the plant will die within the month.
Thank you!
I definately like the sleep late tip!
The other tip I like is giving a certificate for
a manicure or pedicure
Instead of joining the Sunday crowds at restaurants, do something together as a family. My family enjoys a good old fashioned BBQ. It gives us all a chance to catch up on what’s going on in each others lives and also gives Mom a break from cooking dinner.
I like the idea of a mother daughter outing too. Dad’s hearing is going and he doesn’t like to go to the movies anymore. I’m sure that Mom would love to watch a chick flick while munching on a bucket of hot buttered popcorn.
Send an e-cardto your mom or if your mom is no longer around plant a tree in her memory. then take the family fishing, pack a healthy lunch, edamame beans with soy sauce over them, hummas with pita bread, string cheese and some salame.
Happy Mothers day to all and to all whom are no longer here with us!
We did the plant idea after my mom passed, but i also found a journal was great, helped me remember what it was like to grow up with my mom and to be a mom to my two boys
Buy her and yourself an indoor plant or some outdoor flowers of the same variety. Watching them grow will remind you of each other throughout the year.
Do you want to be alone on Mother’s Day? Don’t feel guilty about taking some time away. After you’ve celebrated as a family, escape by yourself for a couple hours to browse a bookstore or meet up with a girlfriend
breakfast in bed
Cool ideals. Please enter me.
for fun
One this page my favorite tip is :
Instead of joining the Sunday crowds at restaurants, do something together as a family. See a movie, have a picnic or a pizza at the park, or go on a hike.
One Capessa my favorite tip is:
Make a small scrapbook or write a letter recounting the fun times you’ve shared over the year or telling her what you appreciate about her. We don’t often take enough time to accentuate the positive. (this one is a really great idea!!)
Thank you for the chance!
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