I am so happy for your Mother's Day plans. It must be torture to be separated from loved ones during this time.

I am home with all my kiddos. My second born is quite the chef, and the celebration planner like his mother, so I suspect he will make a special breakfast for the family on Mother's Day. My mother is no longer here, so I have nothing to plan.

No menu here, but I ordered flowers. :)

Thank you Zalco! I'm so happy for you that you get to have your family around with you. I keep threatening to move everybody into a big house next fall. We would probably have to rent an extra house in case of isolation though.

Pllog what flowers did you order?

I usually have some flowers around for our birthdays and mothers day but not sure what to get this year. Also will as usual get some for sister-in-law. I would like something a little different. Her DH isn't very forthcoming that way and so we usually buy her a bouquet. Maybe sunflowers. We will be cautiously sanitizing and covid-19 responsible when we give them to her. :-)

Your celebration sounds like it will be quite an event. We aren't planning anything special.

I just put in an order with my regular florist. Something interesting. I leave it to her good taste. No contact delivery. :)

The house sounds like a fine idea. My household is diminished. I know a lot of people have clumped together to stay home. We're more dispersed than clumped. OTOH, I still feel like all I do is clean the kitchen...

Have a lovely Mother's Day.

It's a wait and see, here!

We never did eat out on Mothers day. The restaurants were always crazy busy. It will just be us, our daughter and 2 grandgirls. So far all I know is we are having spinach quiche.

I have no plans here either. I have to run that election on May 5 as I'm the Township Clerk, and so will be in self-imposed quarantine for 2 weeks before I see my Mother. It also happens to be our wedding anniversary on that day, so we might make dinner together for that. My girls will call, I'm sure.

Annie

We have no plans for Mother's Day and that is just fine with me.

Sue

No plans here either. Sis in laws tried to organize family dinner, but some of us thought that was a bad idea. Several vulnerable relatives. Mom declared that we will wait until it seems safer.

Hopefully my DIL will send me a little video of the grandkids but that's probably all we'll do.

No, no plans here. Not sure how it could be done safely. 6 ft isn't safe without a mask. More like 12-18 ft. Even then not 100% safe.

Maybe a hot favorite crockpot meal, each household brings their own serving spoon, plates and eating tools. Bringing their own chairs. Quiet spot so 16 ft apart is comfortable without yelling?.

No, could not do that.

We have no dinner plans, but will get together by zoom. It is my granddaughters 5th birthday so it will be difficult. Usually we do a spread here for all the kids.

So, same as Easter .... as the leg of lamb awaits yet another holiday gathering ....

4th of July?

ETA: gd was born on Mother's Day 2015.

My daughters daughter was born on May 10, 2009, Mothers day!. They have had a few awesome Mother Daughter days since... and will have one again this year.

Yes, I know, has nothing to do with your post... but your post made me realize, they have that special day again this year.

Moni

This is all contingent upon the government relaxing restrictions. So don't worry. They have said early to late May for an easing of restrictions at this point. Who knows what that means.

We all wear masks and gloves but it's hard to eat with them. We've already discussed how we will all sit in our cars and eat and then just visit when we're done. It is very complicated but it's worth the extra extra effort to keep everybody safe. It's apparently our new way of balancing things, having an enjoyable time but not even a bit close to one another. I'll take it even if I did end up being 16 feet from my family.

DD is already picking out a location. She wants music and says everyone can talk on their cell phones and text one another if it gets too loud. :-). It might be a sign of our future anyway if this continues into the Fall again. DH has been using this method of headsets and cell phones on the job site. I think more and more people will try to keep their distance that way anyway.

I hope everybody can safely visit soon but I'm realistic at the same time.

Seagrass - Thank you for mentioning See’s. I tried to order from them for Easter and they were not taking orders, so happy to see that they are back. I think I will send some to my MIL for Mother’s Day.

I would make pasta salad to go with the Italian sausage.

We share the same birthday. :)