Mothering Sunday

Precisely Jingle , we ARE STILL Mothers , believe it or not Wise !

I shall look forward to having my dinner cooked for me by DS, who will be cooking for DIL and his MIL as well. DH can do the washing up!

Although wasn't the original purpose so that children and young people in service could go home to have some 'mothering'? And go home to their 'mother church'.

Yes. That's what it was originally. They were allowed to make a simnel cake and take home to their mums.

and pick flowers from the hedgerows (get you arrested these days)

my opposite number is very possessive and has asked my daughter to go with granddaughter, to see the great gran and as they live in the same street it will be hard to refuse so my daughter told me she has said no but it has to be no to both of us, just to make us both alike. She is doing a family thing with partner and baby. so because of a possessive gran I miss out seeing my family.

I made a simnel cake once, no-one else liked it. I ate it all.

I love simnel cake. But it must be so fattening!

Silverfish That's a shame.

silverfish what a lovely girl your daughter must be to be so thoughtful, even though you lose out.

I'm chuckling at the thought of rosequartz eating a whole simnel cake because she made it and nobody else liked it.

It's the sort of bloody minded thing I'd do.

And I'd make them watch!

It was the marzipan, no-one else was keen on it. I didn't eat it all in one go, it probably took all week!

I once had a disaster with a Simnel cake. I took it out of the oven and without thinking, immediately turned it out of the tin. You can imagine the mess as the top and bottom of the cake went in different directions and broke up because of all the fruit and the layer of melted marzipan.

I recovered myself. I shovelled all the cake I could rescue into a straight sided casserole. Once it was cold I decorated the top as usual with marzipan balls and icing and cut slices out of the casserole. It tasted fine but the marzipan was marbled through the cake rather than being a layer in the middle

Oh, this is making my mouth water now. Sounds fine to me FlicketyB. [sigh]

I suppose I could make one for Gransnetters ...

Yeah!! (Sits up and begs with tongue hanging out)

Here's a big slice for you, with two marzipan balls.

(That was quick, wasn't it, it's my new super duper virtual mixer and oven. Made the marzipan myself too!)

Here is a big slice and some for everyone who will be missing family on Sunday.

Mmmmm! chomp chomp chomp.

Nutter

Well that soon went!

Are parents being unreasonable in expecting their dhildren to visit on other days apart from birthdays, christmas, mothers/fathers day? Do others feel that it is better if their children stay in touch because they want to and not becasue they have to?

We still operate as an integrated family even though we are widely scattered, the idea of 'expecting children to visit on certain days' or 'children choosing to stay in touch' doesn't seem to arise. Emails bat between us most days. I always copy DDiL into any email I send DS - and vice versa. DGD is now in the loop and also receives emails on items of interest to her and replies with news of school and dancing. As soon as DGS can read, I will start writing to him

I think that if your children have their own children and they also have 2 sets of Mothers [us Grandparents] actually getting to see both Mothers can be difficult unless they all live very locally.That doesn't mean they they can forget their Mothers though, a card and gift through the post is not hard to arrange.They may have busy lives, but in the past we all had busy lives too but managed to get a card to our Mother in time.

When my own 3 were little I appreciated the cards they made for me but always discouraged buying cards and overpriced flowers. I had a lovely birthday with them 2 weeks ago and don't feel any need for mother's day. When I had the wee ones ( 3 and 5) on Friday they painted cards for mum and we made daffodils with egg boxes and straws. Hope she likes them tomorrow!