As a new mom, I found my first Mother’s Day to be a letdown.
I had naively thought that it would be a day where all my anxieties and responsibilities would fall away. But that isn’t your reality when you have a screaming baby who wants to be held only by you. Despite my family’s earnest efforts, each gift felt like a tiny bandage on the gaping wound that was my maternal overwhelm.
So I decided to start doing Mother’s Day differently. If this is intended as a day for moms, I thought, then I’m going to do what I want to do.
So I decided to start doing Mother’s Day differently. If this is intended as a day for moms, I thought, then I’m going to do what I want to do. In all honesty, that was to put my “mom hat” down and just be Sarah. I also talked to other mamas of young children who know a thing or two about how they and others like to feel supported. Here are their mindful mother’s Day gift ideas.
10 Mindful Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
1. Give Her Whatever She Wants (Seriously, Whatever)
“Ask yourself what you need at that moment, and then go for it,” suggests Karla Misjan, who runs a digital…
