Mother’s Day gifts - how would you feel?
For Mother’s Day in the past my husbands been really thoughtful - personalised gifts, lovely long messages in the card, signed by the kids, all wrapped up, with sometimes a plan for the day and I’ve felt truly spoilt.
This year was so different - a card that that said best mum ever written by him and not signed by the kids - flowers with the price still on, then he asked me to go in the kitchen and there were 2 gifts with ‘mum’ on (candle and diffuser) and some hand cream just on the kitchen work top.
I am grateful for the gifts, however he’s been busy with work and I felt it was an after thought (for instance he hasn’t even got his mum anything yet!). Also Mother’s Day isn’t a shock date, it comes round the same time every year.
It felt a bit like he walked in a petrol garage picked up the first thing he found, quickly wrote something in it and brought it in the kitchen?
As I said, I am lucky to have a partner that had given me gifts, however, I didn’t feel there was any time/effort/thought spent, especially to previous years so I didn’t feel that appreciated and there’s no way I would just give him gifts not wrapped up and put out on the kitchen side.
If he has been super busy with work I'd let this one slip, especially if you say he is usually really good. He probably feels guilty already