Mother's Day 2011 is Sunday May 8th.
May 8, 2011. Buy a card. Order flowers. Move on to the next item on the To Do list.
Too many of us rely on Mother’s Day each year to tell our moms (grandmothers, aunts, sisters) “how important” they are in our lives. One day, a card or two, some flowers, maybe a bottle of perfume. And we think that takes care of that chore for the year.
The retail industry bombards us with stuff for the holidays now to the point that the real meaning behind any holiday is getting lost in the shuffle. We feel commercially bullied into buying and giving things, and once done, we think we’re finished with that obligation---Mother’s Day included. Christmas, New Year’s, Easter, 4th of July, Halloween, and Thanksgiving all come and go every year, and they are pretty much always the same. But Mother’s Day (and Father’s Day) should be different. Mother’s Day doesn’t celebrate an event---it celebrates a person close to you…your mom.
This year for Mother’s Day (mark your calendar for May 8, if you haven’t already), make it really be a day on which you, personally, celebrate your mom. And just how do you do that other than buy a card, send her flowers? Do something personal. If you can visit your mom, do so. Give her a little kid’s kinda hug and kiss and say “I love you, Mommy” (and her mother’s heart will melt in the sheer joy of having her little boy or girl again for just a few minutes). Or call her on the phone and chat for a nice long time, not about the weather or your kids (her grandchildren), just about you and your mom.
Make a card instead of buying a fancy card for $6.99. There are lots of free printable cards that you can open, personalize and print for free or dig out some construction paper, glue, and crayons and make one. It doesn’t have to be fancy, it doesn’t have to be artistic, it doesn’t have to be anything but something from the heart. And if your hand-made card sorta does look like a 3rd-grader made it, then make it into something fun, and give the card and a couple of magnets to your mom, and tell her it is “refrigerator art” (just like when you were really in grade school). If you want to add a Mother’s Day poem to your card you can find those online for free also.
Sit with your mom and tell her about times that you remember as a child (or talk on the phone for an hour, maybe two hours---or better yet, video chat with your mom, if you can). Don’t just presume that your mom remembers your childhood the way you remember it. When you were a kid, your mom was having all of the worries and stresses that you have now as an adult, so she might remember your 8th birthday party as “that time when we didn’t have much money” but you remember it as “the best birthday party I ever had.” Your mom (and your dad) need to hear things like that.
Don’t be afraid to say the words “I love you, Mom” (or Mama, Moms, Mumsie, whatever). Say the words while you look at her, your eyes to her eyes. Give her a hug and whisper it in her ear…
…and it’s OK if you both shed a tear or two.
Get Free Mother’s Day Cards at Moms Break or our Mother’s Day Blog. We also have a Mother’s Day facebook page where I add free Mother’s Day offers from my site as well as other Mother’s Day offers I find online.
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The only way to tell you who Kimberly Printable is and how she got to be where is she today is to take you through a journey from the earliest days of the Internet, which was only available to people who had a modem card in their computer so that they could “dial up” and connect to the web. So let’s get started…The only way to tell you who Kimberly Printable is and how she got to be where is she today is to take you through a journey from the earliest days of the Internet, which was only available to people who had a modem card in their computer so that they could “dial up” and connect to the web. So let’s get started…
Back when Microsoft was in the Windows 3.1 version (and to establish how long ago that was, we use Windows 7 today), my family got our first computer and I got a freelance job typing up information for a local business that wanted to move their hardcopy to computer-based documents. There were no such things as optical-reader scanners back then and anything moved from hardcopy printouts to computer documents had to be done by hand.
When Windows 95 was launched, I thought working at home would be “easy.” After all, I had a computer and I could log onto the Internet. Like a vast number of other people who had the same idea, I bought into several work at home schemes, all of which sounded “too good to be true.” And, of course, they all were too good to be true. Ultimately, I realized that working at home really meant starting my own business.
I jumped on board the home business train, got one of those first freebie web sites (the kind that had the impossibly long web address), and began to create the first of my many web sites. After an unknown number of trials and errors, plowing through the early transitions of not only Microsoft, but I also had to learn about and adapt to the basic workings of the Internet and the web. About this same time, domain names were becoming affordable. Realizing that the domain name that I chose would be the foundation of my entire at-home business, I settled on “Moms Break” (with the goal of using at-home Moms as my target market).
Moms Break was originally a site that listed other free offers that at-home Moms would find interesting and usable. At the time, this was a great idea because, in those early days of the Internet, most people didn’t know how to find these kinds of offers on their own. At that time, searching the web wasn’t as simple as typing in a couple of relevant words or terms and letting Google do its thing. Yahoo and Excite were the only search engines, and you had to understand how to search for what you wanted to find (does anyone remember Boolean searches?).
After the birth of Google and the rapid changes in other search engines that make them what they are today, an at-home business based on hunting up offers for Moms became obsolete. This was a huge blow to my business plans. Anyone could now jump on “The Google” and find what they needed. I had to dream up a new approach to my Moms Break website…one that would still attract at-home moms.
While I was cleaning out a closet, I discovered all of the supplies I’d used during a stint of preschool teaching. While I looked at those supplies, my thoughts drifted to a free fax-cover fax form that I had just downloaded from the web. That was it! I could turn my experience as a preschool teacher into creating free to print paper-based products that Moms could use for all sorts of things. These types of free documents became known online (which was another term change, instead of saying “being on the Internet”) as “free printables.”
In time I expanded my horizons and added more free printable web sites that would be attractive to other target groups of people. I also diversified the types of free printables that are offered on my web sites, morphing my at-home business as new technologies became available and easily accessible to anyone who has a computer.
Well, that’s my story…and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading about my personal journey. Now, I hope you’ll enjoy visiting my free printable web sites!
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