Mother’s Day-Adjacent Things to Do This Weekend

Those are such great causes! Glad you included those in this post. Thanks for sharing, hope you’re having a great day.

-Kate

LOVE this. Lost my mom in 2017, and my husband’s mother passed away when we first started dating! We don’t have children, so yes – SO many holidays are just regular days for us, or days we absolutely AVOID going to brunch (such as today) or out for dinner (Christmas Eve – made that mistake the first year without my mother and almost burst into tears in the restaurant due to the hole in my heart). We have a truly blessed and wonderful life in OH so many ways, but we have no parents left and while we have siblings, no one close-by – so we really are IT for each other.

Donate to Moms Demand Action. Become a member. Guns are killing machines and they are killing children. MDA is working tirelessly to change laws to protect everyone from gun violence, gun terrorism, and gun accidents.

What about moms who’ve lost children? Think they are most definetly worth mentioning in this illustration.

Thank you so much for these compassionate mother’s day ideas! This is why COJ is the best – thinking of that one extra thing I wouldn’t necessarily have remembered myself.

I keep forgetting its Mother’s Day weekend. That means I can have 1 small bag of cheese puffs to celebrate! Any holiday next weekend?

And to those Moms who wish to spend Mom’s Day indulging in whatever makes YOU happy: enjoy; you earned it.

That’s what Mother’s Day should be all about, Charlie Brown.

Love you girls, keep up the great work –

What a perfect post. My best friend lost her mom very suddenly six years ago and this is always a super difficult time for her. I always shoot her a text but maybe this year I’ll send her flowers. Thanks for the idea.

I love to send Mother’s Day cards to all the women who have loved and supported me throughout my life – special aunts, my best friend’s mom, my son’s Godmother, the wonderful neighbor who gave me such motherly love growing up. I always end up tearing up in the card aisle as I choose meaningful cards for each of these amazing women. It fills my heart.

This is wonderful!!! Thank you!

The Saturday before is Birth Mother’s Day :)

Grace, Jo, and the rest of the COJ team – THANK YOU for bringing attention to the Mother’s Day Bailout program. As a former public defender (the “former” part still breaks my hear) and a current civil rights attorney, we have toiled for years addressing bond reform and often feel like no one hears us. Most of the time our judges certainly don’t. It means the world that outlets like yours bring such simple and empathetic attention to causes like this one and encourage action. Love, love, love.