Mother’s Day card shopping is
Mother’s Day card shopping is the worst. There is nothing that expresses exactly the right sentiment for the relationship my mother and I have.
By the time I went card shopping on Wednesday, the selection was slim and well picked over. All that was left were the three worst types of card, ever:
1. Cards with flower designs You know the ones. Gigantic roses on the front with some sickly sweet sentiment inside.
2. Bears anthropomorphized Somehow a bear in a dress with a balloon and “Gee mom, you’re the best!” inside doesn’t summarize my feelings.
3. “Mom, you’re my best friend.” Does this really happen anywhere but in the movies?
So, I went for a “blank inside” card with birdhouses on the front. And I wrote just the sort of sentiment that suits our relationship best: “Thanks for loving me no matter how abnormal you think I am.”
Happy Mother’s Day!
I stopped buying the pre-written cards a while ago. The blank inside are the only ones that capture what I want to say.
Me too. I don’t even *look* at the printed-inside ones anymore. And most of the time these days I just make my own.