By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills
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May 8, Mother’s Day, will soon be here. I’m issuing you a challenge. This year plan a celebration your mother or the woman you honor as mother never forgets. Today’s blog will give you a few ideas to make this momentous occasion truly special.
Generation Celebration
Invite the generations of mothers in your family to a special dinner in their honor. Showcase past photos and take new ones. Don’t forget the cake!
- Hint: Older women tire quickly so ensure the time together doesn’t wear them out. Perhaps a brunch would be more appropriate.
Movie Time
Mothers and grandmothers are usually stuck watching children while other family members attend movies. Or the movie choice is never her idea. Purchase a gift card with popcorn and a drink. Mom picks out what she wants to view.
- Hint: Follow up with a meal out.
Museums
Check for the latest exhibits at Mom’s favorite museum and accompany her. Don’t complain about what she experiences as wonderful and entertaining.
- Hint: Research museum opportunities beforehand so Mom won’t be overwhelmed.
Pamper Mom
Pamper mom with a gift card to her favorite spa. Don’t forget to include the tip!
- Hint: Arrange a limo to transport your mother both ways.
Photo Puzzle
Take a family picture from the past and have it made into a photo puzzle.
- Hint: Personal Creations does a super job. http://bit.ly/1qO8PiB
Pinterest Board
Is your mother a Pinterest fan? Create a secret board just for her and other family members. Be creative. Pinterest has tons of Mother’s Day ideas for not only her secret board but also other ways to celebrate the day. https://www.pinterest.com/kellyworth78/celebrations-mother-s-day-ideas/
- Hint: Enlist other members of the family for this project.
Plan a Picnic
Create a unique picnic with those things that are near and dear to Mom’s heart. Does she love to travel? Have a country-themed picnic from Mexico or Hawaii or Ireland or a cruise. Decorate with colorful reminders of the picnic’s theme.
- Hint: The local dollar store has tons of inexpensive ways to make this happen.
Books
If your mother is a reader, find out her favorite authors and shower her with books or even an e-reader. She could love a good romance, mystery, suspense, or historical.
- Hint: Choose what Mom enjoys, not what you want her to read.
Scavenger Hunt
What about a scavenger hunt that leads Mom to a family celebration? Or a special gift?
- Hint: Make sure the details of the scavenger hunt meet with your mother’s physical requirements.
Shower with Flowers
Moms love flowers, whether a bouquet of beautiful blossoms or green plants. She’s sure to remember you every time she sees her plant.
- Hint: Make sure the flowers or plant is easy care, and Mom has a place for her gift.
Star of the Day!
Have mom the star of her own movie by making a video to present to her on Mother’s Day. Interview family members, young and old, and ask them to talk about their favorite memory.
- Hint: Children always have a sweet spin.
Write Mom a letter
Have you ever told your mother what she means to you? Heartfelt words along with recalling 
special memories will brighten her day. Don’t type the letter, but invest in pretty paper and use your handwriting.
- Hint: Practice writing what you’re going to say first. If you’re like me, my handwriting is really bad.
What are your plans for Mother’s Day?
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DiAnn Mills is a bestselling author who believes her readers should expect an adventure. She combines unforgettable 
characters with unpredictable plots to create action-packed, suspense-filled novels.
Her titles have appeared on the CBA and ECPA bestseller lists; won two Christy Awards; and been finalists for the RITA, Daphne Du Maurier, Inspirational Readers’ Choice, and Carol award contests. Library Journal presented her with a Best Books 2014: Genre Fiction award in the Christian Fiction category for Firewall.
DiAnn is a founding board member of the American Christian Fiction Writers; a member of Advanced Writers and Speakers Association; International Thriller Writers, and the Faith, Hope, and Love chapter of Romance Writers of America. She is co-director of The Author Roadmap with social media specialist Edie Melson where she continues her passion of helping other writers be successful. She speaks to various groups and teaches writing workshops around the country.
DiAnn has been termed a coffee snob and roasts her own coffee beans. She’s an avid reader, loves to cook, and believes her grandchildren are the smartest kids in the universe. She and her husband live in sunny Houston, Texas.
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I too just lost my great mother, and it hurts more than I can describe. The gift I have given to her, and know she would value above anything else; is reconciliation among her four daughters.
We experienced rivalries based on misunderstandings, and it was just killing me inside, just like it hurt our mother. Right after the funeral, a month ago, I asked God for wisdom and courage, and I sat us down, and we talked, and cried out our feelings and problems. Now we are loving and communicating long distance like we should. My mother would have danced if she was alive. All of us now view this as a honor to her.
My mom is 81 and disabled so we’re limited as to what we can do. After church (I pick her up and take her home each week) we usually go out to eat. I try to get her practical things like books of stamps (she still pays her bills the old fashioned way) or grocery store gift cards or pay ahead for a haircut or manicure.
Hi Gail, I like the idea of a gift card for a hair or nail salon. Practical and a treat. Thanks!
I wish I could be with my mother for Mother’s Day but the distance is too far. I will buy her a book that has cats in it because she is a reader and she loves cats. Flowers also are a favorite especially ones that are delivered ( she lives with my sister who has several greenhouses for raising flowers.)
Hi Paula, Our mothers are appreciative of all things we do for them – especially love.
my daughter and her friends are treating the moms and grandmothers to a play that all are wanting to see with
Hi Sheila, That is such fun! Great idea.
Hi Sheila, your name was drawn to select a Walking With God journal. Would you contact me at my email address so I can mail your gift? diann@diannmills.com
Thanks!
Great ideas, DiAnn! And for your followers who have moms who love to read, may I recommend “21 Days of Grace: Stories that Celebrate God’s Unconditional Love,” the first book in the Fiction Lover’s Devotional series … which has a wonderful chapter by the delightful best-selling author DiAnn Mills in it!!! Make it an even more special Mother’s Day gift by also getting book 4, “21 Days of Joy: Stories that Celebrate Mom.” 🙂
Hi Kathy, thanks so much! Wish I’d thought of it!
I agree with almost all your suggestions except going out to eat on Mother’s Day. Either do this on another day or do something else. Mother’s Day is a VERY busy time for restaurants. The service is slower than you would want, the crowds difficult for the older or infirm mothers, and the noise levels make it hard for regular conversations. Little ones also get more cranky and fretful. We made this mistake a couple of times and then gave up on it for some of your alternatives. After all you want it to be a happy occasion for every one.
Hi Sandra, Oh, yes, it has to be a good kind of memory – not a bad one. Hubby always takes me out on the evening before Mother’s Day to avoid the crowds. I should have mentioned that!
This is a great post. I wish I still had my mother to share the day with. I lost her too soon. I used to be able to give her books and her favorite flowers. We had similar taste in books. She is the one who got me reading. I couldn’t wait to be able to read since we read a lot together before I could. I gave her flowers when I could not just on Mother’s day. I gave her gifts on my birthday after I was grown enough to realize I wouldn’t be here without her. We gave each other corsages on Mother’s day as she said she wouldn’t be a mother without me. I know you are supposed to wear white flowers after your mom passes away but I always gave her yellow ones because that was her favorite color. Now I would have to buy my own corsage so I don’t wear flowers on Mother’s day, not because I want to honor her but, because I miss her so much it hurts.
Oh, Connie, I’m so sorry, and I love the way you honor her.