Mother’s Day Blues

Why does Mother’s Day have to be so complicated? I really wish there was no such thing. If we did away with Mother’s Day and Father’s day it would save so much drama, money and stress. All I want to do is wake up, workout, hang with the kids, eat a yummy homemade breakfast, watch my kids soccer and baseball games, chill on the porch, and then have dinner with the whole family (all mothers included). Somehow it has turned into an entire family ordeal. What time should we come over? What can we bring? What do you want? Are 30 of us all going to the kids games? Yes I know, I am the bitchy daughter and daughter-in-law. But why do we have to pick one day out of the year to celebrate being a mother. I am a mother every single day. My husband is a father every single day. I don’t want cards, I don’t want gifts and I DO NOT WANT TO ENTERTAIN!

BUT I will get cards and I will get gifts and I will entertain. I will take 30 people to my son’s soccer game and know when the game ends we all have to go back to my house to eat. To top it all off, it’s on a Sunday. Sunday at 7, I want to be in my pj’s on the couch. I do not want to be cleaning up and still talking about the stuff we discuss everyday. I love my mother very much. I love my mother-in-law very much.  I tell them all the time. I do not think there needs to be a day for us to celebrate that I love my mothers. I think the Birth”day” does the job. Big fan of the Birthday but Mother’s day, Um, no. I know I am a good mother. My kids love me. My husband loves me. It’s all good on the Selling front. I know this Mother’s day and Father’s day thing will continue until I am a goner but I hope there will be a Mother’s day in my future when it’s not really Mother’s day. It’s just SUNDAY.