I'm Marjorie Ponnet.

I'm Elizabeth Reese.

This is The Nest, our minis-so that's all about the delightful and delicious things that make our homes just where we want to be.

And where we want to be is mothers. And Mother's Day is always such a special, special thing.

And it's always important about the gifts that your children give you, but sometimes you don't get exactly what you've been hoping for.

Mother's Day can be tough.

You know, it can be tough to live up.

I think that Mother's Day is an evolving thing in life where you want certain things at different times in your life, right?

I mean, when you have really little ones, I think you just want time to yourself.

That's what most mothers want.

I mean, I don't want my husband to get me any sort of gift.

I mean, I guess flowers are nice or a card is nice. But what I really want is just time and the pressure lifted off of me for a day. Well, you know, because I know I've told you this story, but I'll share it with everybody else. My mother's Mother's Day tradition. And I hope she doesn't mind that I'm going to share it. Do it. So from a very young age, my mother would just leave.

Yeah.

And she would take her bike and she would go for a long bike right.

She would come back at about six or seven that night.

She would just take the day.

And I understand it now as a little kid. I don't think I understood it quite.

Yeah. Because you had all these gifts that you had made at school. I could want to give you the

ashtray mom. You can tell it's the 70s. Yeah, totally. We're making her mom's ashtrays.

Now I get it. And I think there was not a big surprise in our family that we tend to do things in the extreme.

I think there was a different way that that could have been done where with communication,

you can say, I love you little ones, but mama's going to go do something sort of quiet.

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