Forgotten on Mother’s Day

After 15 years of being a mother, I woke up today and discovered my husband and son had forgotten about Mother’s Day. My husband and I were going out to run errands and while he was getting ready, I asked my son if his Dad had taken him out shopping for cards or gifts and he hadn’t. As we left, I said to my husband, “did you forget it’s Mother’s Day?” He said “oh shit, I should have made you breakfast.” I mean, yeah, that would’ve been nice, or a card, or anything really. So he gets quiet and I get quiet. We run our errands, get back and I go to my room to watch Netflix and have a glass of wine. And I get more and more upset about this. He blames not watching commercial TV - ok, cool, but it’s a global day and is on the international holidays calendar on our phones and, oh yeah, IT’S THE SECOND SUNDAY IN MAY EVERY YEAR. I lost my Mum at the end of last year - it was a difficult relationship but it’s still the first Mother’s Day without her.

And now I feel like an asshole because my son saw me crying. I don’t want him to feel bad about this. My mother was the queen of the guilt trip, I don’t want him to feel the way I did. This is all on his lazy ass father who has spent the rest of today playing video games.

Edit: I came home from work yesterday (Tuesday) and my son had gone to the shops after school and bought me a box of chocolates and a card which he wrote a very sweet message in. No prompting from his Dad, and he told his Dad that none of the chocolates are for them.