We always used to vow to "be good all day" on Mothers' Day. I doubt if it worked. There were too many things for my brother and I to fight about. But we never got her presents. My father occasionally got her flowers, but only very occasionally!

Now that I'm a long way away from my mom, I like sending her cards. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" and all that. (Alternatively "Absence makes the heart grow fungus" - the Barenaked Ladies.)