{"id":289,"date":"2016-05-15T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T09:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=289"},"modified":"2016-05-15T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T09:48:01","slug":"mothers-day-is-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/mothers-day-is-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Day is Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sibo-and-mum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sibo-and-mum-1024x983.jpg\" alt=\"Sibo and mum\" width=\"474\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sibo-and-mum-1024x983.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sibo-and-mum-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sibo-and-mum.jpg 1661w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 85vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Mothers (or the people who act as mothers) are really special people in our lives \u2013 right? They love us unconditionally, listen to us, dry our tears, feed us, look after us and be our private taxi service whenever we need to get somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Often we don\u2019t even remember to thank them for all the things that they do. Shame on us!<\/p>\n<p>Yes &#8211; they also can drive us nuts, nag us to keep us on the right track (no matter how old we are) but they only do this because they love us and want the best for us.<\/p>\n<p>They care.<\/p>\n<p>Like I mentioned last week, Sunday 8<sup>th<\/sup> of May is Mother\u2019s Day. This is the one day of the year that we can give back to our moms.<\/p>\n<p>Spoil them like crazy. Make them feel loved.<\/p>\n<p>We can buy flowers and fancy presents, but if we don\u2019t have lots of money there are still things we can do.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few ideas that just cost time &#8211; mostly.<\/p>\n<p>Make a lovely Mother\u2019s Day card. Go crazy \u2013 decorate it with anything fancy you can find \u2013 glitter, dried flowers, bits of fabric, wool \u2013 get creative. You love your mom \u2013 show her how much time you are willing to spend on her.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t have money for a gift you could make her vouchers. Little cards or papers that say things like:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease would you do the washing up?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cPlease would you make me a cup of tea?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cPlease will you bring in the washing?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cPlease will you pick up the dog poop?\u201d (This only works if you have a dog).<br \/>\n\u201cPlease will you wash my car?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cPlease will you bring me my glasses from my room?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You get what I mean? Anything that you think could be useful for your mom \u2013 each family has different needs.<\/p>\n<p>Write the vouchers nicely, decorate the cards or papers and put them all together in an envelope. Or make little holes in the side and bind them together with string or wool.<\/p>\n<p>The cruncher with vouchers is\u2026 we have to be prepared to do the job when mom presents it to us.\u00a0 With no moaning, groaning or whinging! Otherwise they are pointless.<\/p>\n<p>We could also make a meal or a cake \u2013 and be sure to do all the washing up afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you choose to do \u2013 do it with love!<\/p>\n<p>Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Mothers (or the people who act as mothers) are really special people in our lives \u2013 right? They love us unconditionally, listen to us, dry our tears, feed us, look after us and be our private taxi service whenever we need to get somewhere. Often we don\u2019t even remember to thank them for all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/mothers-day-is-special\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mothers Day is Special&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,10,16],"tags":[55,49,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}