Mothers Day is coming up, and that means you need to start thinking of a way to celebrate. What do you plan on doing? Breakfast in bed, all the cooking and cleaning for the whole day, waiting on her hand and food…okay, but you are still not off the hook. These things are already expected, after all. You're going to need some new Mothers Day ideas.



Start your Mothers Day off right with Mothers Day gifts and the whole breakfast in bed thing. Once that's over with, you better start cleaning the house if you didn't already do it at four a.m. that morning.

Remember, house cleaning includes all of the chores as well as cleaning every single room; you need to do the things that even your mother doesn't normally do. Groom all of your pets as well, if you have any; walk the dogs, change the litter box, polish the shell, clean the tank, and all those wonderful things that come with the animals.

By the time you have finished if will more than likely be time for lunch, and your mom may have decided that this is a suitable time for getting out of bed. If she is like most people, she will probably be checking her email first thing. This is usually when you remember that you and your siblings forgot to send greeting cards.

Fortunately you can send Mothers Day ecards from one of the many free online ecard websites out there. They are easy to use and she will receive it almost instantly after you press 'send,' so you can get it to her inbox before she notices that you forgot, as long as she doesn't check the date and time of arrival.

Now it's time for you to take her out for lunch. Hopefully you remembered to make that reservation, and that you included your grandmother as well, because she is indeed a mother, and if it wasn't for her, your mother wouldn't be there. So it's like double appreciation.

Once you're finished with lunch, you need to think of some things to do before you take her out to dinner. You can mark greeting cards off the list because you sent Mothers Day cards to her email. Now think…did you write any Mothers Day poems?

You should take her to the movies and all that jazz, where you will happily sit through whatever middle aged movie she wants to see. Then you can go around the mall and browse through the various Tupperware stores, but not to buy…just to look. Don't worry, you will get through this, and before you know it, it will be time for the grand finale: Dinner.

You have, of course, saved the best for last. Everybody loves a good steak house once in awhile, and you're going for the Filet Mignon even if it breaks your wallet in half. It's only one day out of the year that you need to go all out like this, so you had better make it worth her while.