Tis the Season

So I am sure all Moms out there are wondering what their families will be doing for Mother's Day, looking forward to enjoying the one day a year you get to sleep in, feigning surprise at whatever gift you massively hinted at getting.  And while I am looking forward to that too, the beginning of May kicks off what has always been my own personal high holidays.


While it is Mother's Day it is also my Father's birthday, some years it is not the same day, but this year it is.  So I have to juggle Mother's day with Mom (who is a terrific grandmother, my sounding board for all things parenting and my go to baby sitter) and Dad's birthday (my business partner and I am a Daddy's girl) - and my parents are divorced, so I cannot combine them into one activity.  So there goes the weekend without any Mother's day time for me as Mommy with my family.  Oh wait and there is my Mother-in-Law too.  Did I mention that we all live in the same city?  Great for the kids and ourselves, not so great for juggling the holidays.  So let me figure out how I am going to fit all of that into one 48-hour window, well there is always the weekend after and the one after that.


Then a couple of weeks later, it is my husband's birthday.  He is our family's absolute rock and puts me and the kids before himself on a consistent basis.  And not to make everyone jealous, but he is a great partner from cleaning the house to running errands to cooking to changing diapers.  Yes ladies, he is the perfect husband.  He deserves something great and fun for his birthday.  And my parents (while divorced, they don't mind doing things together for other people, which is quite helpful) wants to do something because they love him.  Plus his Mom wants us over for dinner.  Ok another weekend in May with 2 days and 3 events, so we will roll into another weekend as well.


Now we are into June, yet there is no rest for the weary.  You see while Dad's birthday falls on Mother's day, yes you guessed it, Mom's birthday falls on Father's Day.  So I need to do something for Father's Day with Dad (Daddy's girl you know).  And then, of course, Mom wants to spend her birthday with her family, she deserves it.  Oh but I need a really great Father's Day for the Husband, because he is a great dad.  Hopefully the birthday extravaganza (that I still have to plan) was not so much that I have nothing left for Father's Day.  Ok weekend number 3 in six weeks time that I have 3 activities in 2 days.  But I think I am still making up for the holidays and birthdays in May, right?


Now I am not complaining, I am truly blessed to have so much love and support in my life that I want to do something special for the people in my family.  But I just wish I did not have to do all of it multiple times in a six week time period. 


But here is where I get foolish, I know that this happens every year, but here I sit 3 days before Mother's Day and freak out over all of it.  I have planned nothing, not shopped for any gifts or meals ( in my defense I have a toddler and a 3 month old) nor do I know when I will find time to spend an hour at the card store for everyone (see in my family you get multiple cards that are funny, we prefer it that way).  Forget giving cute gifts with the kids pictures on it because I totally spaced and ran out of time.  But alas, once I am through it, I am done and don't have to worry about it until May 6th of next year.


What do you do for your parent birthdays and holidays....I am wide open to suggestions:)