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  • Surfah
    Where's Wallace?
    • Nov 2008
    • 33726
    #1

    Mother's Day in your ward

    What do you guys/gals do?

    I'm curious because our ward goes bonkers for it. I usually didn't care but now that I got put in the EQ presidency I have to help plan for it. The entire 3rd hour is a luncheon for the women. The men take over all the classes for the women and they get a lunch prepared by a chef and restaurant owner in our ward complete with linens, centerpieces, flowers, etc. It's absolutely ridiculous. Most of our freaking meager budget goes to this thing every year. I am in charge of the linens and center pieces. Hopefully the restaurant owner is able to do the food again because if not then we're screwed. I wish I knew who started this tradition in our ward because each year since has to be bigger and better and it's out of hand. I want to go to Home Depot and buy a flat of flowers to hand out but there would be gnashing of teeth if this happened.

    Maybe I am also just bitter because we jonly get a cookie on Father's Day. I'd rather give you girls the priesthood than have to put on this show.
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    • Indy Coug
      Heartless Bastard
      • Dec 2008
      • 18747
      #2
      A small plant at the end of Sacrament Meeting.
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        • happyone
          Board Bookworm
          • Mar 2009
          • 5394
          #3
          plant or a bar of chocolate, plus a couple of really nice talks about mothers in Sac Mgt

          I may be small, but I'm slow.

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            • BigFatMeanie
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2008
              • 7107
              #4
              Originally posted by Surfah View Post
              What do you guys/gals do?

              I'm curious because our ward goes bonkers for it. I usually didn't care but now that I got put in the EQ presidency I have to help plan for it. The entire 3rd hour is a luncheon for the women. The men take over all the classes for the women and they get a lunch prepared by a chef and restaurant owner in our ward complete with linens, centerpieces, flowers, etc. It's absolutely ridiculous. Most of our freaking meager budget goes to this thing every year. I am in charge of the linens and center pieces. Hopefully the restaurant owner is able to do the food again because if not then we're screwed. I wish I knew who started this tradition in our ward because each year since has to be bigger and better and it's out of hand. I want to go to Home Depot and buy a flat of flowers to hand out but there would be gnashing of teeth if this happened.

              Maybe I am also just bitter because we jonly get a cookie on Father's Day. I'd rather give you girls the priesthood than have to put on this show.
              Cognitive dissonance alert!

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                • Surfah
                  Where's Wallace?
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 33726
                  #5
                  Originally posted by BigFatMeanie View Post
                  Cognitive dissonance alert!
                  Maybe. Maybe not.

                  My father was HPGL for the last 5 years and my mother was in the RS presidency. So my dad was doing the luncheon for the most part during that time span with input from my mother and what the sisters wanted, or better said, expected. My dad was released 2 weeks ago and they just made our former EQP the new HPGL. This is when I went into the EQP. The first thing he said was thank goodness he doesn't have to do that luncheon anymore.
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                    • DrumNFeather
                      Invisible Swordsman
                      • Nov 2008
                      • 8854
                      #6
                      In my last ward they didn't make mention of Mother's day unless one of th speakers did. The program was part of a schedule set out in December of the previous year and probably had to do with temples or something.

                      I suspect that in my new ward, they'll do something.
                      "They're good. They've always been good" - David Shaw.

                      Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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                        • Clark Addison
                          Senior Member
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 10301
                          #7
                          We give a flower after Sacrament Meeting, and men substitute in Primary so all the women can go to RS (I know that a few of the women see this as a poor gift, as they would rather be in Primary).

                          My favorite Father's Day was when my ward used to bring in a huge amount of cookies to the gym and all the men got out of Priesthood 20 minutes early. We don't do that anymore.

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                            • Moliere
                              One man.....one pie
                              • Oct 2009
                              • 27843
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                              What do you guys/gals do?

                              I'm curious because our ward goes bonkers for it. I usually didn't care but now that I got put in the EQ presidency I have to help plan for it. The entire 3rd hour is a luncheon for the women. The men take over all the classes for the women and they get a lunch prepared by a chef and restaurant owner in our ward complete with linens, centerpieces, flowers, etc. It's absolutely ridiculous. Most of our freaking meager budget goes to this thing every year. I am in charge of the linens and center pieces. Hopefully the restaurant owner is able to do the food again because if not then we're screwed. I wish I knew who started this tradition in our ward because each year since has to be bigger and better and it's out of hand. I want to go to Home Depot and buy a flat of flowers to hand out but there would be gnashing of teeth if this happened.

                              Maybe I am also just bitter because we jonly get a cookie on Father's Day. I'd rather give you girls the priesthood than have to put on this show.
                              Is this because if they have the Priesthood, they will no longer need motherhood to feel equal to the men?
                              "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                                • Surfah
                                  Where's Wallace?
                                  • Nov 2008
                                  • 33726
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by Eddie Jones View Post
                                  Is this because if they have the Priesthood, they will no longer need motherhood to feel equal to the men?
                                  So we could get away with just giving them a cookie too instead of the luncheon.

                                  It was TIC comment in light of recent discussion here.
                                  "Nobody listens to Turtle."
                                  -Turtle
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                                    • beelzebabette
                                      Golf & Cubs Disrespecter
                                      • Nov 2008
                                      • 2907
                                      #10
                                      As a single woman over 30, I consider Mother's Day a bye week so I have no idea what my ward does.

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                                        • Mrs. Funk
                                          Lawyer Wannabe
                                          • Nov 2008
                                          • 2690
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                                          What do you guys/gals do?

                                          I'm curious because our ward goes bonkers for it. I usually didn't care but now that I got put in the EQ presidency I have to help plan for it. The entire 3rd hour is a luncheon for the women. The men take over all the classes for the women and they get a lunch prepared by a chef and restaurant owner in our ward complete with linens, centerpieces, flowers, etc. It's absolutely ridiculous. Most of our freaking meager budget goes to this thing every year. I am in charge of the linens and center pieces. Hopefully the restaurant owner is able to do the food again because if not then we're screwed. I wish I knew who started this tradition in our ward because each year since has to be bigger and better and it's out of hand. I want to go to Home Depot and buy a flat of flowers to hand out but there would be gnashing of teeth if this happened.

                                          Maybe I am also just bitter because we jonly get a cookie on Father's Day. I'd rather give you girls the priesthood than have to put on this show.
                                          I think if women HAD the priesthood, you wouldn't have to put on such a hullabaloo to legitimize women NOT having the priesthood.

                                          That said, I think this is really ridiculous of your ward to do. It's expensive and not a good allocation of the ward budget. How about just letting church out early so moms can go home and take a nap?
                                          "You know, I was looking at your shirt and your scarf and I was thinking that if you had leaned over, I could have seen everything." ~Trial Ad Judge

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                                            • creekster
                                              It is NOT a monkey!
                                              • Nov 2008
                                              • 22661
                                              #12
                                              We have some sort of gift (flowers and cookies are typical). second and third hour classes are handled by the men. I am leading singing time in primary that week (I know this thought probabyl makes many of you fear for the children, but don't worry, we are going to have fun; I am planning on teaching them Let it Be and other spiritual classics).
                                              PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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                                                • RC Vikings
                                                  Known Heterosexual
                                                  • Nov 2008
                                                  • 8789
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by beelzebabette View Post
                                                  As a single woman over 30, I consider Mother's Day a bye week so I have no idea what my ward does.
                                                  It can't make the ones that are having troubles getting a swimmer up to the egg feel very good either.

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                                                    • Moliere
                                                      One man.....one pie
                                                      • Oct 2009
                                                      • 27843
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                                                      So we could get away with just giving them a cookie too instead of the luncheon.

                                                      It was TIC comment in light of recent discussion here.
                                                      Ha, yeah mine was TIC as well. I sometimes forget the winky face guy.
                                                      "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                                                        • beelzebabette
                                                          Golf & Cubs Disrespecter
                                                          • Nov 2008
                                                          • 2907
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by RC Vikings View Post
                                                          It can't make the ones that are having troubles getting a swimmer up to the egg feel very good either.
                                                          FTR, I consider a bye week a good thing and am not sorry for the opportunity.

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