1. Get her breakfast in bed
Your mother makes you breakfast daily. How about you do the same for your mom, just the one day! Plan what you’d like to cook; pancakes, omelettes, cutlets etc. are good options. Pay attention to the aesthetics, and serve it to her the first thing in the morning, or as the title suggests, in bed! It would be the perfect start of the day and your mom can have the luxury for once to lounge about, take a long hot shower or whatever else she would like to do in the mornings but can’t.
2. Household chores for the day
This one seems like the extension of the first idea, only it is way bigger. Any mom, be it a homemaker or a working mother has the maximum responsibility of running the house. And it’s no mean feat. The cooking, cleaning, washing, dishes, grocery shopping, social responsibilities, child rearing, the list is endless. She accomplishes all that everyday. Can get exhausting right? So how about you rise up and take the mantle for a day. Give her a day off. Let her sleep late in bed, watch television, gossip on the phone, visit the beauty parlor, take a walk. In short, give her the gift of time, while you take care of the daily chores. You would actually be gifting her a whole day on Mother’s Day!
3. Gift an experience
A lot of websites offer the option of gifting an experience to your loved ones. Be it a Balinese massage, a spa, acupuncture etc. You can gift something which you feel your mom would really appreciate. Most moms do not have the time or the energy to go for an exclusive spa. They might view it as a waste of time and money. This is why you have to give it to them on a platter and leave them with no option but to go! Of course it sounds like you are force feeding her into something. But as Moms have a habit of saying, “It is for your own good!”
4. Do something together
Ditch whatever you have on that day. Take the day off at work, bunk your classes in college. Get your siblings to do that as well. Take your mom for a hiking trip, a picnic, or a day at the mall. Whatever it is, just spend the time with her and make her feel that people around her would be willing to drop everything else in their life for her one special day. It’s a simple yet thoughtful gesture.
5. Make something special for her
In case you are wedded to the idea of gifting something, or are simply not able to be there on the day itself, you can make the gift special by making something on your own! The easiest in this category is the scrapbook. Which mom wouldn’t go misty eye at the sight of chubby pictures of your childhood, hand imprints from your first painting, little important letters you wrote to her when you were a kid? You can go in for making a video too, you can get your siblings and your father to give in short interviews about your mom and compile into one wonderful movie which you can play to her on the big day. Even if it is just a card, as long as it is something you have put an effort into making, she will get the message!