Mother's Day....

I spent all yesterday shopping for nice things to put into a hamper for a present for my mother. I didn't get home until just after midnight, and Mum walked in about half an hour later and in a bad mood. She quizzed me over what I'd spent my day doing and slung a few insults at me about losing weight, then went to bed. I sat up for another hour waiting for her to go to bed, and arranging her present and wrapping it just right. It consisted of:-
* a copy of her favourite magazine
* 2 DVDs ("Connie & Carla" and "Down with Love")
* a cute pair of bed socks with little pig faces
* another pair of house booties with piggy faces
* a wheat heat pack (because she's been getting neck aches)
* a box of toblerone (her favourite chocolates)
* vanilla body spray
* vanilla lip butter
* organic soaps
* and a four pack of gourmet chocolate sauces
All in a wicker basket wrapped in red cellophane and covers in beautiful butterfly stickers (butterflies are her favourite animal) ... When I was finished I snuck into her room to leave at the foot of her bed. She woke up but said she'd look at in the morning. When she did wake up this morning and checked out the present she came in and I got a 'thank you' and a kiss, and a "I didn't like 'Down with Love' it wasn't a very good movie. Take it back and change it for something else?". Now I'm not looking for a huge reaction, but a little more gratitude would have been nice. Especially because my lazy brother didn't lift a finger to help and Mum would have known that. *sigh* And to top it all off, not an hour after she'd gotten her gift, we got ito a huge fight because she went out and forgot that she'd promised me a lift to the theatre, and then abused me for getting angry when she finally answered her phone and remembered what she'd promised. No apology only a fight over me being ungrateful.

Next year it's a card and a box of chocolates.