Not Sharing Mother's Day

This is the first year in 30 something years where I won't be spending Mother's Day with my mom.  No, no - it's not like that; my parents decided to up and move to another state and took 2 of my aunts with them.  As much as I gripe about how overbearing my mother is, I have to say that Mother's Day without her is a little - well - weird.  This is my first eggroll-less Mother's Day.

It is also the first time since I became a mother that I don't have to split Mother's Day between 2 mother (mine and my husbands) and the first one that I don't have to share.  One would think that it would be a great feeling.  Today I can do anything that I want because it's MY Mother's Day.  Uh yeah right.  It didn't turn out that way.

Today started with me making breakfast for the family and then I unloaded the dishwasher.  I have a cold and got up early to take some allergy and cold medicine which made me more hyper than anything.  By the time I loaded the breakfast dishes into the dishwasher, changed a couple of rounds of diapers, and made the obligatory Mother's Day phone calls it was time for lunch.  Seriously, I wonder where the time goes.

I made lunch, sat with the boys to eat, and then decided it was high time that we started painting the kids' room.  So, I spent the better part of an hour moving boxes and going through some papers.  The kids' room probably won't be painted today but at least it's ready to go.  Am I a little bitter or angry at my husband? You betcha!  But, I think I have cause to be.  I would have liked to have spent Mother's Day hanging out with my boys at a park and not clean anything.  I wonder if it would have been this way had we gone to one of our parents for the day. 

Well, there's always next year!  I think next year, I'm going to grab a bunch of my mother-friends and fly to Vegas.

Original Chicago Moms Blog post.

Comments

[STL Mom]

Sounds a bit like my day. My husband started cooking lunch, but he was walking over every 30 seconds to ask me questions ("How should I cut the potatoes? What temperature should the oven be?") so finally I just went into the kitchen and did most of it myself. Sheesh, you'd think a guy with a master's degree could cook lunch!

[Nicole/wksocmom]

This sounds like last year's mother's day for me. So this year I only had two requests - not to have to cook breakfast or dinner. That's all I asked for and am thrilled to have got them both.