Mother's Day comes every year, and it seems like we're always getting the same things - a nice family meal out together, cake and flowers, a pampering spa session, and heartfelt notes and cards. Don't get me wrong. While all those gestures are lovely and much appreciated, there are more useful ways of expressing your love for Mum, (and from...
Mother's Day comes every year, and it seems like we're always getting the same things - a nice family meal out together, cake and flowers, a pampering spa session, and heartfelt notes and cards.
Try these ideas for this year's upcoming Mother's Day that give her a break from her daily mom duties:The gift of uninterrupted sleep ranks tops on perhaps every mum's bucket list, so please let her sleep in at least on this day this year. Likewise, a long, quiet, uninterrupted nap during the day is also big on our lists. It's really the smallest of things that make the biggest difference sometimes.
Most dads on the other hand, usually get to be the cool, fun parent. This Mother's Day, let mum be the one who takes the kids out for ice cream before dinner and spoil their appetites, or for lets the kids stay up way past bedtime, while dad has to do the 'cleaning up' for a change.
Trust me, it's a real treat to put our feet up in the comfort of our own living rooms without being asked to do, find, cook, or clean something. So dads, pack the kids up after breakfast and don't come back until dinnertime, and bring back dinner with you too since the kitchen is closed that day.
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