Daddy's Girlfriend Day
- July 22, 2008 at 9:59 AM by durga826
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Apparently, I don't yet qualify for acknowledgement on Mother's Day. I do their laundry, I cook their meals, I dole out medicine, I chauffer then hither and fro, I make their lunches, I listen to their stories, I console them when they're sad, I take them shopping and I've fashioned my entire world around them. And did I mention that they live with us?
But on Mother's Day I got zippo, zilch, nada, zero, nothing, the big goose egg. I said to them the next day, "How come? You know there's no "Daddy's Girlfriend Day."
Now, before you crucify me and say terrible things about how I'm not their real mother and their mother is the one who should be honored on Mother's Day let me say this.
I KNOW I'M NOT THEIR MOTHER. I'M AWARE THAT I DIDN'T GROW THEM IN MY UTERUS. And, I agree that they should spend the day with their mother. But what about me? Do I get nothing because I didn't give birth to them? I do everything that a mother would do, but I didn't even get a verbal acknowledgement of the day. That plainly sucks.
So, let's have "Daddy's Girlfriend Day" or "Stepmother's Day" as a seperate, yet equal holiday to Mother's Day. That way both women in their lives get the attention and acknowledgement that they truly deserve.
Tags: mother's day, stepmother, daddy's girlfriend, holiday
- Written by durga826 on July 22, 2008 at 9:59 AM
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Hey I agree with you 100% and I am so lucky that my SO agrees as well. We let the girls go to their moms for half a day on mother''s day and then back home to us. This past mother's day I got a dozen of yellow roses from him and a miniture rose bush to plant in the yard from the girls. I also got a orchard from my sons and them a beautiful hanging plant from all of them with a card from each one. I started crying when I got up because the father of my kids never did anything for me on mother's day and I gave him 5 son's. When the girls mom came to pick them up they showed her what everybody got me and told her because I am the mommie that works hard for them. I was very touched but she was very pissed. She asked them what they got her and they answered nothing. Their daddy had to force them to tell her Happ Mother's Day.
You could start that tradition in your household. Start by making a special day just for step children and dote on them that day and then announce that the next Sunday is your special day and see what happens.
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My kids bombard me with the Happy Mother's Day and yet ss won't even acknowledge I'm there!!!!! So what that I've been the only mother to him since he was 10 it doesn't count!!!!! So here's to the daddy's girlfriends and step moms!!!!
Sorry to hear that, Durga. You are just too good to be true.
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