A Trip to a Perfect Mother's Day Gift: Take Mom to Places Special To Her

Each year most of us try so hard to come up with the best possible gift to give our mothers on their special day. We seem to put the importance on the gift and not the mothers. Maybe perfect gift">the perfect gift is the whole family taking a day trip.

When I think of Mother's Day the first thing that comes to my mind is the image of a ideal mother. She is the one person who always put her child first. She never felt any sacrifice was too great for her child. She was always supportive and smiling and energetic. She invoked lots of positive memories. This perfect, nurturing person may not be our mother, but she is our picture of what a mother is. I'm thinking we are all alike in that respect. Somehow, as Mother's Day approaches, this does become our mother, at least for the time being. We then turn our thoughts to how we might show our appreciation to that mother.

As we try to think of the perfect way to acknowledge the perfect mother we quickly realize it isn't easy. Our focus shifts from the mother to our demonstration to that mother. Time slips by and no outstanding ideas flood our heads. What should we do for that mother in a way that surpasses all previous attempts? Once again our focus shifts, this time from the idea of the perfect demonstration to the gift. The reason for the gift, the mother, becomes blurry and the concept of perfect gift">the perfect gift itself doesn't allow us to think of why we are looking for that perfect gift in the first place.

Time continues to slip past us and we not only don't have the perfect gift, we still don't have any ideas on what that gift should be. After all, it has to be perfect.

The next thing you know, time is all but gone. Mother's Day is only a couple of days, or maybe even a few hours away. Our lack of creativity coupled with the speed of time passing diminishes the perception of how great a gift we have to select. As we approach the time wire, a simple box of candy or some flowers will do just fine. We have decided on a gift. Not a special gift. Not a perfect gift. Not a gift that out did all previous gifts. What is worse, the reason for the gift, a demonstration of our appreciation for the perfect mother, has not come to pass.