Mother’s Day is coming up. I share this every year. Here are a few things that she probably wants at various budget level: ✅ Family pictures with a professional photographer. Check the family calendar and schedule it. She doesn’t need another thing to do. ✅ A super high quality bathrobe like they have at a fancy hotel with bath salts and some nice candles ✅ Carry out for lunch. Avoid the crowds and kid meltdowns and get her favorite carry out (order in advance) - do not tell her to do it 🙄 ✅ Take over the bedtime routine and send her to read a book and take a bath ✅ Spa day but don’t schedule it for Mother’s Day, she will probably feel weird not being with the family. Book it for her a couple weeks later and if you can afford it, pay for a friend to go with her. ✅ Car detailing- arrange for her car to get a deep clean from fruit snacks and glitter crafts so she can feel like an adult for a while and not a mobile preschool. ✅ Get together with your guy friends and organize and schedule a quarterly - “moms night out” where the guys take on the kids and send the moms out together. This gift is really about organizing it for her with all the different schedules so don’t skip that part. ✅ Photo collage - grab her iPhone and pod of a digital frame or print and frame a bunch of the ones she has marked favorite. Get them off the phone and around the house. She has been meaning to do this forever. ✅ Hand print anything. Stepping stone for the garden, mug, picture. We really do like these things and they cost next to nothing. Things that need to be glazed need a couple weeks lead time. ✅ Mom’s Snack Vault. Grab a lockable container and stuff it with her favorite snacks you and the kids keep stealing. ✅ Of course home made cards and crafts made by the kids and framed and wrapped. We aren’t just saying it, we really love that stuff.

It is wild and concerning seeing the situation in Mexico unfold. We honeymooned and vacationed in Puerto Vallarta as many of us here in Texas have. This is such a poignant reminder that behind the tall walls of resorts and our little vacation bubbles, deep turmoil exists. Prayers and strength for our neighbors to the south 🙏