Comments on: Happy Morning After CONTEST

By: miriam

miriam — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:32:38 +0000

My mother picked mother’s day to pack up her stuff and move to parts unknown. My brother showed up at the house with flowers; no one was there except the dogs.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:09:05 +0000

So I already have the book, but can I join the despair ranks anyway. Someone’s gotta listen.

My husband, in a motorcycle riding class all weekend. My mother’s day weekend was spent alone with the kids. Sure 5 year old son came home with crafts and all that from preschool. but real gift has been ordered. Arriving “sometime” in the next week. It better be good.

Having an entire weekend husband free ain’t fun unless your kid-less.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:37:18 +0000

It’s my first Mother’s Day and what do I get? 2 1- pound bags of Reece’s Pieces. This happens to be my favorite candy, but 2 pounds worth? This gift comes after announcing to my husband that I had not only lost all the baby weight (this happened within a few months of the blessed event) but I was within close range of what I consider my “Skinny Weight: Numbers Only Seen by Sorority Sisters and Hollywood Types.”

I would have been able to drown my disappointment in a bowl of the most perfect peanut butter candy ever, but my husband quickly fessed up to his attempt at buying me a new pair of (fashionably priced) jeans with Amex points. God bless ‘em, you can buy anything with those points these days. He had brand, color and style, but lacked my size and the good sense to go look in my closet at the 52 other pair of jeans and check their label for the size. What was more important to me than the jeans, was that my husband had actually heard me say that I had entered a weight class worthy of designer denim, and tried to make it happen. See, sometimes husbands do pay attention their wives non-stop chatter.