Mother's Day

[tokyolamearse]

Mother’s Day was first celebrated in 1883, four months after the invention of breakfast in bed. It came into popularity during the early 1900’s at the same time as the development of the mass-produced combustion engine. It was thought by celebrating femininity and motherhood one day per year, the remaining 287 days (as was the calendar of the time

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[fluttrgrl]

Aaaawww that was sweet Jono. So did you buy into the materialistic commercialisation of Mother's Day and get her a gift?

[tokyolamearse]

I did, but I only bought her stuff I would have bought her anyway from work. She's cool with that. Talcum powder was considered a brilliant gift in my house growing up.

By the way, seeing as you're probably one of the only people who read this thing who actually know my Mum, pick which ones of the above are actually true...

[drinkthesun]

OSCAR!!!!

[tokyolamearse]

she did call me that every now and then actually. And I have another story about garbage bins. Remind me to tell you that one later.

[drinkthesun]

right in his arse eh?