10 ways to spoil Mom for Mother’s Day (without spending money)

If you’re a mom, what would your favourite gift be? Mine would be free time just for me. Here are some ideas for gifts that don't cost anything, except a little loving attention.

You could leave this list lying around the week before Mother's Day or ask your kids to give you a coupon with one of these ideas on it, instead of spending money on a bauble or another coffee mug that will gather only dust on your shelf.

1. Make her some fizzy bath salts: follow these easy steps at http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Fizzy-Salts

2.  Give her a coupon in a home-made card promising to clean your room or do own laundry.

3.  Make her favorite breakfast and serve it to her in bed (Dad can help!)

4. Give her a foot massage. Don’t know how?  http://www.wikihow.com/Give-a-Foot-Massage

5. Having someone else cook dinner is a great gift! Pasta is easy…

6. Write mom a poem: a funny limerick, a short haiku, or make an acrostic with her name

7. Pick some wild bluebells and make her a spring bouquet. 

8. Remember her favourite colour and use it to make a home-made card.

9.   Make her a frame with pictures of her favourite kids (you!).

10.  Coupon for free babysitting for a spa day (idea from Dad, a whole day off!)

Happy Spring!
Musemother

ps another great gift idea for a mom in mid-life (in her forties or fifties) is the book The Tao of Turning Fifty, What Every Woman in Her Forties Needs to Know, which gives tips and exercises for self-care and mothering yourself!  www.jenniferboire.com