Every Father’s Day, I get one of the best gifts in the world. I get a t-shirt decorated with the hand prints of each of my children. Although I know what I am going to get, I look forward to my new t-shirt every year and I wear each and every one of them with pride. As much as I hate to admit it though, I never started this tradition, or any tradition for that matter, for my wife on Mother’s Day. Every year I promise that I will do something special with the kids and start a Mother’s Day tradition, but every year I draw a blank. I don’t necessarily want to decorate a t-shirt, because it feels like I am stealing her idea. Unfortunately, I don’t have any other ideas.
This year Mother’s Day is a little more complicated. My boys have soccer and baseball games all weekend, my own mother is battling cancer, my nephew is making his first communion in St. Louis, and I still don’t have any ideas. It doesn’t help that our family’s spring schedule is unbelievably hectic, leaving me little to think of an idea. I haven’t had time to come up with a plan, much less execute it. With only a week to go, I am starting to feel desperate. I really want to start doing something special for my wife to show her how special she is to all of us, and to thank her for being the mother of my children. She will get a card and she will get flowers, but after that I am at a loss.
What should we do for Mother’s Day? I am open to suggestions.