| Every year, as soon as mothers day comes within a | | | | roles that they play. Unfortunately if you go looking for |
| week's range, newspapers, magazines and TV | | | | unique gifts for mothers day all you'll find are things that |
| channels start promotions for different gift items and | | | | can't really be sold for everyday use and are, instead, |
| special discounts and packages. If you pick up a | | | | being promoted as unique (or in other words insane) |
| catalog from somewhere back in the 60s and | | | | gifts for mom. People will sell everything from kitchen |
| compare it to one now you'll see a huge difference in | | | | cabinet knobs to hummingbird feeders! Like any mom |
| how moms look. While magazines and TV channels | | | | has the time to redo a kitchen or to refill the food |
| have realized that moms look different today than | | | | supply for birds! |
| they did years ago, what few realize is that moms | | | | Mothers day gifts need to be special and something |
| actually are different. | | | | that moms can enjoy instead of being something new |
| Most ads will still feature mom scrubbing away at | | | | that they have to take care of. Mothers day fruit |
| dishes in the kitchen or gardening. As if it isn't bad | | | | baskets are a good choice because unlike flowers |
| enough to show that moms never leave a kitchen or | | | | you don't have to put them in water and then throw |
| the backyard (when in reality moms have jobs and | | | | them out a week later. Instead you enjoy eating fresh |
| are one of the most active members of any | | | | fruit. Of course a lot of people may feel that plain old |
| community) the worst part is that years ago | | | | fruit doesn't do mom justice either so they can try fruit |
| magazines told us to get our moms flowers, and | | | | bouquets. Fruit bouquets are made by cutting fresh |
| today; magazines still tell us to get our moms flowers! | | | | fruit into unique shapes and using chocolate dipped |
| Today moms work high profile jobs; there are single | | | | strawberries and dipped pineapple slices to make it |
| moms out there who raise entire families, moms coach | | | | look like real flowers! They're fruit gifts at their best. So |
| soccer teams and organize blood drives and all we're | | | | instead of giving your mom flowers and making her |
| ready to give them after all these years are a bunch | | | | feel like she's back in the dark ages, give her a treat |
| of flowers. What moms need is a different kind of gift, | | | | this mothers day! |
| one that really appreciates them for these diverse | | | | |