Mother’s Day
As someone, who is widowed and doesn’t have a mother anymore, this is one of the days I wish didn’t happen. I actually don’t know my two daughter-in-laws and my grandchildren, which is particularly sad. But then you can’t cater for circumstances.
If I want to eat out with my other son today, then we’ll have difficulty finding somewhere decent.
I do hate these single-issue days. Surely, everybody should respect their mother and father all the year! And not just on one day of the year!
These days, were only invented to sell cards and flowers.
C always hated Mother’s Day, as it was some foreign invention. To her it was Mothering Sunday, which was often on a different day. But I can’t ever remember us celebrating any of Mother’s Day, Mothering Sunday or Father’s Day, except by the odd card. We did usually celebrate Valentine’s Day, as I remarked here.
The Anonymous Widower 
The family circumstances you write about are rather sad. Mine are too, but mostly because of separation, as I live in the UK and my husband lives in Greece. As far as Mother’s Day is concerned, for me, I don’t expect either of our (grown-up) sons to remember it, even though one lives with me and the other is at university, and I don’t care.
My own mother died 13 years ago and I never really liked either her or my father, who died some years previously. I see Mother’s Day – Mothering Sunday – as a celebration connected with the Church. Father’s Day, on the other hand, is a commercial rip-off invented in America to flog more stuff which people don’t need.
As you so rightly say, respect for parents should be a year-round commitment. We should remember the Fifth Commandment.
Comment by Janice Mermikli | March 10, 2013 |
They just called it Mothering Sunday on Radio 5. That’s a surprise!
Comment by AnonW | March 10, 2013 |
“Mother’s Day” is one of those things that has changed for the worse. When we were young it was “Mothering Sunday” and of course there was no such thing as “Fathering Sunday”! Years ago it wasn’t a commercial opportunity, but a day when we all said thank you to that person who looked after us as children. Mother’s preferred a hand made card and some flowers picked from the garden. These needed thought, time, but no money. I too now have no mother (she died last year aged 92, and J’s mother 2 years earlier aged 90), so we have nobody to do anything for, but we will be thinking of them. We are out to lunch with one of our son’s, his wife, and three children.
Comment by John Wright | March 10, 2013 |
I wish you all a happy Mothering Sunday.
Comment by Janice Mermikli | March 10, 2013 |
Thanks
Comment by AnonW | March 10, 2013 |