Mothers Day

In message , Estelle Gallagher writes

Thanks, I have had 2 cards from my sons to open tomorrow. Now for a useless bit of information about St Patrick's Day. In 1964 it snowed. I went for my driving test and they would not let me take it because of the snow. Happy Mothers Day to all mothers wherever they may be. Shirley

ah the Brits done do things by half now do they, Estelle. lol Happy Mothers Day!!!! you get Mothers Day, St Paddys Day and Int'l Quilting Day all on the same weekend. our mothers day is the second sunday in May in NZ. so you'll be making a LIME green quilt while an all day buffet meal keeps ya going, eh. :)) tell the caterers not to forget some chocolate in that buffet. have a great day. i've not had a nice mothers day since dh decided ten yrs ago to take on this damn flower delivery business. now i work that day from sunrise to sunset, throwing mums at mums. oh well, i guess there are some mums worth their weight in mums. guess i'm not one of them, lol. cheers, jeanne

Yep this is a busy weekend here Jeanne! My DH is 100% Irish,out to celebrate any minute now! DGD is 6 today, but I have been upstairs in my room doing some quilty things today! Looking forward to tomorrow as, after opening my 5 cards, and hopefully getting breakfast in bed we are off to see the DGC ,not seen them for a few months!

Hey!! We;ve got snow on the ground here!! It got here yesterday and stayed for most of today, but it is NOT supposed to happen on St. Patrick's Day...especially not in VA...upstate NY, I could understand, but sheesh!!

nzlstar* wrote: i've not had a nice mothers day since dh decided ten yrs

But of course you are!! HOw else would he be able to send you to the States for extended visits if it weren't for the floral delivery job?? Think of the up side of things...sheesh! I know there are several who wish they could take off to a different country for a month or more..be happy YOU can :-)

what a hoot you are, Larisa. that trip and the yr before were paid for from moms money doing stuff mom left undone. for me it was not so much a vacation, tho i did enjoy parts of the trips. i'm sure i saw every quilt shop in every town i stayed in and brought home a bunch of LIMEs and other colour fabrics too. we had the funds in our savings to pay for the usa/canada trips but there was no need to as mom left enough to cover it and then some.

i guess i'm lucky since i worked back in early 70s(pre marriage in calif), i've never been short of cash. i'm a saver not a spender, so is dh. when working back then i managed to buy a house and saved enough for the 2yrs in/around europe/morocco/israel in mid

70s. invested the profit from sale of that house and used some of it to put a deposit on our first house here in nz. i am happy i had the energy left to make those 2 trips, not sure i will again. this yr i dont think i'll make it anywhere. i'm knackered. we'll see how i feel next yr. i am not ungrateful, just tired. jeanne

bother, that crept up on us, I thought it would be next Sunday, it always seems to be on the twenty something of March, neither DH or I have sent anything to our mothers in the UK, I presume it must be a different day in the US!

Anne

second Sunday in May here in NZ, i think Oz is the same date. not quite sure bout the USA date but i know its in May sometime. i've been gone too long to keep it in my head. even when i had Mom to send a card to, i just aimed for early May so she had it in time or early. now i only recall it cuz i gotta work the whole day and i'm not amused. :( no one even says Happy Mothers Day to me much now. i might, if i'm lucky, get a card from DD but the boys...nothing, nada, not a word, even dh is too busy working the day to think to say anything. same thing on my birthday, zilch. dont want prezzies, just acknowledgement of what day it is. often makes me wonder why i bothered. sigh... jeanne

Jeanne, you did not make it to any where near even most of the quilt shops here in the Phoenix area. you decided that you had too much fabric already.

Pati, > what a hoot you are, Larisa.

Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday in Lent, Anne (three weeks before Easter) over here. So it varies each year, depending on Easter. I think it is in May in the US? . In message , Anne Rogers writes

Canada it's the second Sunday in May.

Marilyn in Alberta, Canada