Mother's Day is Coming Up

Has everyone bought presents for their moms for Mother's Day yet? I haven't bought anything for my mom or for Mike's mom yet. We have three tickets to the Jazz game on Sunday, so we're trying to decide whether to take Carson, because he would have so much fun and he really needs the time with us, or to take my mom for Mother's Day. She would love to go. The thing I didn't think of when I was getting the tickets is that it's on Mother's Day. We need a babysitter for Hayden and Amaya and the only people that ever babysit them are my mom and Mike's mom. I wonder if either of them want to babysit on Mother's Day. Oh, well, we'll work it out.

With Mother's Day coming up it got me to thinking of some of the stupid gifts Mike has gotten me over the years. He is so weird when it comes to buying me presents, either for Mother's Day, my birthday or Christmas. He either gets me something really, really great, like jewelry, or something really, really stupid, like the yearly edition of Guinness World Records. Yes, he really got me that book one year. One year he got me a replica Sinclair Oil truck bank, because his work is next door to a Sinclair gas station and they had them there. When I was pregnant with Hayden he bought me a phone for Mother's Day. Our phone was broken and we were going to buy a new one anyway, so he used the opportunity to not have to think about what to get me and just got me something we were going to buy anyway. How imaginative. So when Father's Day rolled around I bought him a toaster. Ours was broken and we were going to buy a new one anyway. When he opened it he was really disappointed. I said, "Well, I got a phone for Mother's Day. What's wrong with getting a toaster for Father's Day?" He got the hint. Let me tell you, he has gotten much better at picking out presents since then.