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Whatever you do on Mother’s Day, be sure you RELAX, PLAY, LIVE LARGE, GET IT DONE, GO WILD, GIVE BACK and ENJOY!

Here are some ideas:

RELAX…

1.  Redeem all the handmade coupons you have received over the years from your children, for backrubs, foot massages and “doing laundry.”
2.  Open a good bottle of Champagne and have a “Momosa.”
3.  Stay in your pajamas all day.
4.  Take a stroll.
5.  Just sit down and do nothing.
6.  Soak your feet in Epson salts.
7.  Take a nap!

PLAY…

1. Invite the whole family to do everything left handed if they are right handed (and vice versa)
2. Build something out of Legos
3. Have an ice cream eating contest.
4. Make silly videos.
5. Have an all-day game tournament (Monopoly, Risk, Go Fish?)
6. Play hop-scotch, jump rope or catch.
7. Make a cake creation (Resource: Cupcakes, cookies & pie, oh, my! By Karen Tack and Alan Richardson)
8. Make Chocolate strawberries (followed by eating them, of course)
9. Make believe you are sleeping and take a nap.

LIVE LARGE…

1. Skip it – whatever it is you normally do on Sundays, skip it.
2. Splurge on yourself.
3. Let go of worry for the entire day.
4. Request to be referred to as “Madam” or “Your Royal Highness,” all day.
5. Make a list of your Big Dreams for the coming year.
6. Make a list of actions steps you can take to make those dreams happen.
7. Take a BIG nap.

GET IT DONE…

1. Do 50 Sit-ups.
2. While you’re at it, do 50 push-ups too.
3. Organize one drawer or shelf.
4. Create a new tradition.
5. Throw a dinner party.
6. Learn the difference between the Samba, Mambo and Tango
7. Join the gym (you’ve been meaning to!)
8. Check the “nap” off your list of to-do’s by taking one.

GO WILD…

1. Get in the car with your family and start driving.. find someplace you have never been before.
2. Stand on your head.
3. Go on an adventure while your husband stays home with the children
4. Don’t go to brunch unless you love going to brunch, in which case; don’t miss the opportunity to go to brunch.
5. Buy expensive shoes.
6. Go hang gliding (too wild? How about snorkeling.?)
7. Challenge yourself physically by taking a hike, bike ride or run.
8. Take a 4 hour nap.

GIVE BACK…

1. Call your mother.
2. Write cards and send them to soldiers overseas.
3. Fill up one bag of clothes you don’t need anymore and donate them. Ask your children to do the same.
4. Tell each child what you appreciate about them (after all, they made you the mother you are today)
5. Take the family shopping for canned an non-perishable goods and deliver them to a food bank.
6. Adopt an animal
7. Make sure your “significant other” gets to take a nap.

ENJOY…

1. Read a book to your children, that your mother used to read to you.
2. Enjoy being home alone while your husband takes your children out for an adventure.
3. Snuggle with your family and watch movies in bed all day.
4. Catch some zzzzz’s

Trying to do it all or nothing at all, in L.A.,

Jamee

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