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This holiday can be a stressful one for many families. Who plans it? Who hosts it? Do you go out for a meal or cook or cater in? Who is invited? Who can actually come (geographically and other commitments)? How does everyone get along?
After an exhausting but great Mother’s Day at our Jersey shore home on a beautiful day here my wife and I collapsed as I reflected on how lucky we are compared to many families including many of our friends. We had our 2 daughters, son-in-laws, their parents (except for one dad who lives out of state and is divorced from his mom) and our 4 grandchildren together. Spending most of the day together, we all got along well and had a fun day (some bike riding, walking along the beach, and some boardwalk activities). Yes it was a lot of work to set up, prepare food and drinks (everyone made or brought something)and clean up after everyone left, but it was worth it (even my wife thought so…LOL). We are fortunate that our family lives reasonably close and we can include the in-laws so our kids don’t have to “decide where” or split their time on holidays like this one.
How was your Mother’s Day?
First one without my mother, who died in Feb after 3 yrs worsening dementia and debility.
Spent time with my 91 year old MIL. My wife is her only living child. Was nice to celebrate her, and her husband.
Our daughter lives in town so saw her. Son across the country but we spoke. We have great kids.
We are lucky and grateful.
Had to be a tough one…sorry about your mom. Yes, the emotional part of having or Not your loved ones there is certainly more important than where you celebrate the day.
Spent the afternoon with our 2 oldest boys and their significant others and our 2 grandkids. We made pasta! Now if we could just convince our youngest son to move closer…😉
Yes, that’s a tough one. We have several friends with kids dispersed geographically making it difficult for all to get together. Good luck with trying to get him to relocate.
We saw all the kids, their spouses, and our grandkiddies for a long, lazy buffett style lunch.
Some went on to their parents. Some stayed most of the afternoon.
Exhausting. But fun!!!
It’s great living close driving distance near all our children!
That sounds like my kind of celebration! The Jersey shore is the best! We are each the eldest child of large families, so my husband and I are used to big family celebrations. For almost 50 years we’ve had a family party at Easter and another at Memorial Day and used to have one on Mother’s Day as well. Nothing fancy, and of course everyone brings food. Since the next day is usually a work day for the kids, we’ve been paring down the celebrations as we’ve gotten older and wiser (?) I decided that this Mothers Day should be a day of rest for Moms and didn’t have a party. We missed it. And so did the kids. Maybe next year..,