Mother's Day, the day when we get to celebrate motherhood and all that our dear mummy's do for us. It arguably descends into a commercially driven nightmare where you end up at your local Westfield in an attempt to be inspired by the garishly fuchsia and inevitably trashy "I wuv you mum" bears, coffee mugs and tea-towels.
My mum has always had a reticent attitude towards mother's day gifts, which I will concede, is perhaps the result of some past gifts that turned out not to be exactly as useful as I thought they would be at the time of purchase. I do try, but as the gifts from the last 2 years have remained unopened in the boxes, this year I have resorted to doing the unthinkable and not actually buying Mum anything. Instead, I've decided a nice Mummy-daughter dinner is the best I can do (see below- culinary skills are still in development, hence why it's not just me whipping up a meal).
Mum's are such cool people. Extremely annoying at the very worst of times but lifesavers when it counts. The things that my Mum has done for me border on the insane, and it is for this very reason that only a Mum could do them. We've all had those times where Mum's come through at the very last hurdle and saved the day and equally we'll recall those days when Mum said no, spent an hour explaining the fault of your decision making processes as a teenager and felt the need to describe your latest failing (or even worse, success) to the entire extended family mid-Christmas lunch. Mum's all have those slightly eccentric ways about them too- washing dishes before they go in the dishwasher, trying to set you up with the grimy family friends kids, cutting your hair in a bowlcut bob ages 7-10 so you wouldn't get nits (never had them, but not convinced by the logic of Mum!) and launching into an onslaught of questions when you go out and requesting a full blow by blow account the next day (while you're most likely struggling to hear her past the ever louder thudding of your head).
Despite these minor failings, overall, Mum usually turns out to be the lady who keeps you on the straight and narrow. For all her slight crazy tendencies she does seem to unconditionally appreciate your existence, even after years of you bleeding her bank account dry and complaining about the way she dresses and keeping her up at night worried because you haven't txt her that you're going to be home late! So treat your mum today, give her the best gift we kids can give her - the humble old cuddle and a kiss!
Love you Mumsie!!!
x
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