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2. May 2025

Make Your Mom Happy on Mother's Day

Ing. Kateřina Jelenová
4 min.
310 reading
Make Your Mom Happy on Mother's Day
Mother's Day falls on the second Sunday in May every year. This year it will be May 11. Have you already thought how to make your mom happy?

The best gift is time you share with her

Try something a little different this year than the obligatory bouquet, box of chocolates or phial of perfume. Moms usually appreciate the moments spent with their adult children, ideally with the whole family. You can express your gratitude for their dedication through the very reason why they brought you into this world and stood by you all her life: quality time with your family.

Do you ever invite your mom for some coffee or a dinner? Make a change this time: avoid crowded restaurants and go for a family celebration in the garden. You can turn your pergola into a fancy place: lay fresh pastries, homemade cake and some coffee or tea on the table. And if just coffee and a snack are not enough for you, feel free to organize a whole barbecue - if the weather is favourable.

Be sure to focus on decoration so that the whole celebration is not just another coffee and cake under the pergola. Add vases with flowers, napkins with spring motifs and even a personal, handwritten message for mom.

Do you have no pergola? You can also organize a festive breakfast or a snack on the terrace, a larger balcony or in the front garden. In case of possible scorching sun or a light shower terrace awning will always save your party.

Small gifts for pleasant moments in the garden

Flowers, something to eat and a personal little something. This is usually the most common form of a gift for Mother's Day. But why not let your imagination run wild this time and give your mom something that she can use for her hobby, or a gift for pleasant moments at home or in the garden? A comfortable pillow or shawl, warm homemade socks, an aroma lamp, a decorative flower pot  - there are no limits to your imagination. And if you have a more practical mom, she might also appreciate window net screens for quiet summer evenings with no mosquitoes.

Cultural experience

Most moms will be happy if you take them to their favourite type of cultural experience: a concert, theatre, or cinema. If they don't feel like going anywhere, organize an open-air projection: as a conclusion to your picnic or barbecue in the garden, you can project a movie onto a wall or screen hung in the pergola after nightfall. You can make the atmosphere nostalgic and choose some popular old-time movies and prepare snacks of your own choice.

And just an observation: you don't have to wait for the second Sunday in May to tell your mom that you love her, give her a small gift, or make her happy in some other way. But Mother's Day is a good opportunity to remember the merits of our mothers.

Ing. Kateřina Jelenová

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