what to do? what to do?
4:37 AM 5/12/06 · My friend 
niveK has an interesting policy when it comes to Mother's Day; do nothing. It's not that he's cheap or anything but more he doesn't see why he should spend one day being nicer to his mother when he can be equally nice to her all year round. He's very sincere about the whole thing and I used to admire on how he dotes on her. Back when he was still living at home he had one of the best son/mother relationships I've ever seen.
Left him a voicemail message the other day as I was wondering that now that he's not living with her anymore if his policy on this has changed. I don't know how often he sees her doing the year, even though they barely live 2 miles apart. He may even see her multiple times a month, if not the week, but I'm wondering if he's given any thought to celebrating the day. It's been a few years, actually...not sure why it never occured to me to ask before.
The reason this came to mind was because I was wondering on what to do for Mom. I'm sweet and wonderful but I'm not best with family gifts. For Father's Day, or his birthday, I got Dad a dancing coca·cola can that wears sunglasses. It gets its groove on when you play music.
He can honestly look on it and say, "This was from my son...Gods help me!"
Even though this was quite a few years back...there hasn't been much improvement in this particular skill.
So, you'll understand my nervousness.
I've lucked out that my suggestion made Mom's day; I'm going to clog her arteries! Brunch at Stack's, although she said it will hardly clog anything as she knows they have some other options on their menu. Told her that may work for her but I was going for the buttermilk pancakes. That earned a giggle.
What're you guys doing for the big day?
niveK has an interesting policy when it comes to Mother's Day; do nothing. It's not that he's cheap or anything but more he doesn't see why he should spend one day being nicer to his mother when he can be equally nice to her all year round. He's very sincere about the whole thing and I used to admire on how he dotes on her. Back when he was still living at home he had one of the best son/mother relationships I've ever seen.
Left him a voicemail message the other day as I was wondering that now that he's not living with her anymore if his policy on this has changed. I don't know how often he sees her doing the year, even though they barely live 2 miles apart. He may even see her multiple times a month, if not the week, but I'm wondering if he's given any thought to celebrating the day. It's been a few years, actually...not sure why it never occured to me to ask before.
The reason this came to mind was because I was wondering on what to do for Mom. I'm sweet and wonderful but I'm not best with family gifts. For Father's Day, or his birthday, I got Dad a dancing coca·cola can that wears sunglasses. It gets its groove on when you play music.
He can honestly look on it and say, "This was from my son...Gods help me!"
Even though this was quite a few years back...there hasn't been much improvement in this particular skill.
So, you'll understand my nervousness.
I've lucked out that my suggestion made Mom's day; I'm going to clog her arteries! Brunch at Stack's, although she said it will hardly clog anything as she knows they have some other options on their menu. Told her that may work for her but I was going for the buttermilk pancakes. That earned a giggle.
What're you guys doing for the big day?