Mother's day.

[MissAlice]

Mother's day is coming up and I want to know what is the tradition over here... We will be visiting my boyfriend's mothers house and I'm a little bit nervous about the gift giving or tradition that is done here...

in the states i know its just some gifts or flowers etc

and in paris i know its this special flower


soooooo what is it over here and also what is eaten? Ideas anyone?

[EP]

It varies from family to family. In some families father and children make a fancier than usual breakfast and put it on a tray with some flowers and wake the mother up singing to her. The mother of course has been awake a long time already and just pretends to sleep.

I don´t usually get gifts, not after the kids kindergarten days. Those times it was some "craft-work" made in the kindergarten, with a self-made card. And a bunch of those little white wood anemones that are just beginning to bloom. I remember how disappointed I was when kids grew up and started to bring me fancier flowers. I would have preferred self-picked anemones, I still do. Nowadays we also go and have a mother´s day lunch in a restaurant. When they were little we could not afford that.

Then a couple of years ago daughter-in-law stepped into picture and suddenly I got a mother´s day gift (a piece of fashion jewellery). Obviously that was a tradition in her family.

Take her a bunch of flowers. And her son: he should go and pick some anemones.

[MissAlice]

Okay thanks for the reply. I wa also just thinking of making a homemade cake and card and buying se flowers. I just get nervous with these holidays.... But thanks!!!

[Pursuivant]

I always went to go pick a bunch of wood anemones for my mom - even when I was adult and in my 30's. It was as EP said a "kindergarten tradition" but my mom was a bit sore when one year I was being "a big boy" and tried to get rid of "little boy stuff" so I then went and picked her the anemones and afterwards I did it just for the heck of it, she found it sentimental like EP and was actually quite relying for me to come with a wilted bunch. Some years they were easy, just step out and walk into the forest, some years it was a challenge.