We wish we were this creative. So let’s leave it up to an expert: Sinead Corcoran Dye, freelance writer and social media content creator. This is her list that was first published in The House of Wellness magazine. Tell us she’s not wrong though…
The real gifts your Mum wants for Mother’s Day 2024:
- For you to tip out the remaining centimetre of liquid in your can of Coke so it doesn’t leak into the bin.
- For you to stop leaving a glass of water on the bench with three drops in it, then, when we passive aggressively ask, “Done with this?” you say, “No, still drinking.”
- A Breville Barista coffee machine.
- A manicure voucher for somewhere that’s not in a mall and smells of fumes and they buff your nails so hard your cuticles bleed.
- Water-resistant slippers for when we take the rubbish out. Preferably Uggs – the low-cut ones with red trim that the TikTok youths are wearing.
- To take the rubbish out.
- To actually make notes during the other 364 days a year when we very not subtly mention things we’d like for Mother’s Day.
- For you to remember to call your own mum on Mother’s Day.
- A massage voucher for somewhere that’s not on a side street of a scary suburb.
- For you not to ask where something is in the house in which you also live.
- Nice pajamas, not sexy lingerie (also, that would be such a weird gift for Mother’s Day).
- For you not to ask if it’s okay to wear lounge shorts to your family lunch at a restaurant.
- To not ask us what we want, but just organise one thing on your own with your own brain.
- A facial in a dark, quiet room so we can forget about our lives – and please tell the facialist to not speak to us.
- Botox and fillers, which should really be covered by ACC for all new mums.
- Drawings from the kids, but in a nice frame so we don’t have to go and get it framed and so it doesn’t just get crumpled in the Junk Drawer.
- Merry People gumboots.
- A professional photoshoot – not in a mall.
- A night in a hotel with room service and minus you.
- A date with Pedro Pascal.
- A package of blow waves so we can get our hair washed and scalp massaged once a week for eternity.
- A weekly fresh flower delivery.
- A nice engraved necklace with our kids’ names. Katy B does good ones, and you can get handwriting on them, or kids’ drawings engraved. Teeny tiny chic.
- To not FaceTime us seven times from the supermarket asking how many eggs to get or what size body wash.
Shot Sinead – you nailed this!
