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KaileesMama · #1 (**permalink**) 03-29-2008, 05:35 AM

Hey, now i've made an effort to come back and post - everyone's left me!! Serves me right i suppose.

So c'mon girls, dont leave me hanging. Pop back in and chat!!

How was everyone's Xmas? Easter?

Wats planned now? Mothers day??

I'm exhausted, waiting for James to finish work and see if he'll pop around or just go straight home. Poor guy is sick and working til midnight. Think i might crawl into bed with a book.

*yawn*

Nite gorgeous girls xxx

Ashleysmom04 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-30-2008, 06:34 AM

I am still around, although you are right it has been pretty slow here. Christmas and Easter went well here. As for Mother's day I am not sure if DH will be working or not. Either way I never do anything for Mother's day.
I hope James is feeling better soon. Being sick sucks.

mcweix · #3 (**permalink**) 03-30-2008, 07:25 AM

Yay! You're back! I'm a little slow this morning....had a radio trivia contest last night for 6 hours!

Things are status quo here. I'm not really looking forward to mothers day, DH ALWAYS forgets and then when we make the rounds to our own mothers' houses he get more guilty as the day goes on so by night he is a bear to be around. How much more help can I give him than making him pick out cards and hanging baskets for the "mom's" with me? Should I buy my own card and gift too and tell him where I hid it from myself?!

Anyone else have this trouble? He forgets my birthday too but is always right on with the anniversary!

piggymomma2brendan · #4 (**permalink**) 03-30-2008, 07:47 AM

welcome back mothers day dinner at brother or mom's . all holidays are fun except when they continue to have family members use easter bunny or santa so all this time i tell him its not 'real' but the family still does the make believe and i been saying easter scavenger hunt but of course they go lets see what the easter bunny left you now he's believing them more than me so I don't get it because I 'still pratice the 'stockings being filled and the easter scavenger hunt but I say it's the family members use 'make belive characters on these holidays

AussieJenn · #5 (**permalink**) 03-31-2008, 09:50 PM

Hi there, I'm still around! I do hope James is feeling better soon.

We had a lovely Easter, catching up with most of my family and also having friends to stay over on Saturday night. Our children (they have a 4yo girl) and a neighbor's boy had a ball hunting for chocolate eggs in our garden.

Mother's day in Australia isn't celebrated until May, so don't have to worry about it yet. It's a double wammy with not much suprise involved in our household, being that their are two mums, and neither of us end up with breakfast in bed! I hope you all are treated like Queen's for your Mother's Day, all moms deserve some pampering I reckon.

Chrissy if your Mark is like many DHs out there, in my opinion you should do what my sisters and my best friend do, buy your own present and make sure DH pays for it! At least when the kids go to school their teachers will encourage home-made cards and maybe even a little gift on Mother's Day.

Dawn - as long as you really don't "do anything" on Mother's Day teehee - it is meant to be a day of rest for the mothers LOL

Traci - it drives me crazy when my MIL insists on telling Mason that Santa and Easter Bunny have left presents at her house for him (as well as what they leave at our house). We do "do" S & EB at our house, but my DP and I try to keep it simple and low key - a small sack of bits and pieces left by his bed by S, and a few egg-sized chocolate eggs hidden in the garden by the EB to hunt with his friends. We don't talk it up big though, and make sure he knows any gifts given are from the person that really gave them, so he can learn to thank them and appreciate them.

piggymomma2brendan · #6 (**permalink**) 03-31-2008, 11:30 PM

Jen-I'm just wondering why the 'double up of doing the 'stuff' for easter & christmas my cousin even has that problem with her mom who's my mom sister. I keep on telling them we don't do 'the magic santa' and since we stay overnight at her place on xmas eve she tells brendan 'santa' got him the scooter' i'm like ergh then she's trying to shush stepdad when he's talking of assembling it the christmas eve but she won't hush him for his 'potty mouth' and glares at me when i don't want my boy hearing that language when I do the confrontation.

I have only said we are going to do easter scavenger hunt to find suprises it was my mom who mentioned the easter bunny and I'm like what in the world did she forget we don't say 'magical ppl' and I never talked about the easter bunny either to him nor the tooth fairy .

I find it 'strange' that they 'share the truth automatically on tv characters that are cartoons but allow a magical mythological creature to be 'real' by saying they left them something money,candy or toys .

I rather have them be able to feel 'great they met a 'cartoon character' when they were younger say i got to meet them at dland that makes them happy and that's the reward you get out of it besides a photo and memories that will last a life time