Mothering Sunday a tradition of love

We love our mums every day of the year but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have one extra special day when we show them just how much.

Given with love

No one would return home without a gift or token of their love and these have their own traditions:

Flowers

Once spring flowers were picked on the way home or to church. Today give your mum a wonderful bouquet, pot plants, a garden centre gift voucher. Or work together and give one big family gift: a patio, decking or a barbecue, gazebo or a new shed or greenhouse.

Food

Once children brought home food from their work – a cake from the kitchen, cheese or butter from the dairy, produce from the land or even a cut of meat, perhaps a bottle of whisky.

Today buy your mum a foodie gift from one of our many artisans. Think cakes, biscuits, hand-made chocolates, smoked fish, jams, chutneys or one of the new local gins now on offer.

Sharing a meal

Once the chance of a rare holiday or holy-day would mean the extended family gathered together for a meal.

Today do the same! Whether you buy the ingredients and host a family lunch, brunch or afternoon tea or book a reservation at a hotel, restaurant or pub, sharing food with our families is the oldest human celebration.

A gift

Once it might have been a neatly-stitched piece of clothing, handkerchief or embroidery; or a spoon carved out of horn or wood or a piece of leatherwork.

Today there is a whole world of gifts to choose. Clothing, photo frame, jewellery, an ornament or decoration for the home keeps the tradition going or how about a new phone, tablet or laptop if you all join together for a big gift.

Luxury and pampering

There is no traditional equivalent! Treat your mum to a day spa, a treatment with a beauty therapist, a voucher for her favourite hairdresser, a weekend break or buy her favourite perfume or make up – the only limit is your imagination.