You’ve started a family; now celebrate it – plan a memorable Mother’s Day for New Mom!

In addition to presenting her with a beautiful bouquet and helping with the little one, here’s how to make the holiday special:

Create A Memorable Gift

Her first Mother’s Day is all about celebrating the birth of your first child. Gifts should focus on keepsakes to remind Mom of her tiny, precious baby.

Photo Keepsakes

Have a framed photo collage made of snapshots taken during the baby’s first few months of life.

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This Mother’s Day, it might be nice if you could simply stop time and live in the moment. But since you’re not Marty McFly from Back to the Future, you probably won’t be able to toy with time.

Instead, give your Mom the gift of the past, present and future by creating the ultimate homemade Mother’s Day gift: a Time Capsule.

It’s heartfelt and sentimental, and gives Mom the opportunity to enjoy some of her most cherished memories.

Here’s how to make a time capsule of your own:

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Mom works hard, so when thinking of the perfect Mother’s Day gift, why not go the extra mile?

By planning a personalized scavenger hunt, you can tailor a gift to be as unique as Mom is – at any price that fits your budget.

All you need are some cleverly written clues, some imagination and the ideas below to give her a Mother’s Day she will be talking about for years to come.

For example, how about a scavenger/adventure hunt centered around a day out for Mom:

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Every Mom deserves to enjoy her special day, but what if you don’t have a big gift budget this year? No worries, Mother’s Day is not about the amount of money you spend on your hero and most treasured friend. Plenty of fun Mother’s Day ideas don’t involve dipping into your piggy bank.

Instead, focus on how spending time with Mom doing something memorable will create the perfect day. After all, what your trusted confidant wants most on Mother’s Day is to bond with the ones who gave her the title of Mom.
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Mother’s Day is a time for peace and unity around the globe.

This year, a lovely organization called We Are Enough invites you to join a global synchronized circe of women and families in celebration of Motherhood.

The event will take place on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12th, from 1-2:00 PM Eastern Time (-4UTC).

Participants can simply join in prayer with their local community, enjoy a mother-family event all your own, or find some other event in your community.

For more information, check out this event page on the We Are Enough Website.

MothersDayCentral.com is a proud partner of We Are Enough.

Namaste!

Hey everybody, it’s just three weeks now to Mother’s Day.

Here’s a lightning bolt of an idea: Why not download our free Mother’s Day Planning Checklist to get a jumpstart on planning the perfect day for Mom.

The Mother’s Day Planning Checklist covers everything you need to plan for, including cards, flowers, poems, gifts, day trips and excursions, fun ideas for staying in, Mothers Day recipes, and important general To-Do’s so you don’t miss a beat.

Time to get it going – the big day is almost here. :)

We’re pleased to announce the five winners in our 2012 Giveaway Gala Event!

We had a ton of entries coming from our Facebook page this year, so it’s not a huge surprise that all five winners emerged from there.

Congrats to all the winners!

Special Note To Our Five Winners:

Please check your inboxes! We’ve sent a notification email to each of you, at the email address you provided with your entry submission.

First Prize Winner

Melissa Henry – $3,000 in Cash!

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Our friend Tricia Brunton, Founder
and CEO of gomom.me, is back with
the 3rd annual Mother’s Day Expo.

This year’s event will take place this coming Saturday, May 5th at the Sheraton Bradley Hotel in Windsor Locks, CT, and promises to be bigger and better than ever!

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Five Prizes. Five Winners!

This year, we’re giving away five (5) great prizes:

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Today, we released our annual list of “Top 10 Mother’s Day Gifts.”

Each year – knowing what’s been most popular in preceding years – and having seen the current year’s new offerings, we put our heads together and come up with those ideas that are not only staff favorites, but that seem to reflect the tastes and times we live in.

We hope you enjoy this year’s list as much as we enjoyed putting it together!


Top 10 Mothers Day Gifts – 2012

All Mothers Day Gifts