On Friday, we must have spent at least 20 minutes browsing the greetings cards in one of the department stores... and the amount of times we burst out laughing was pretty embarrassing!
Over here you can get cards for every possible person in your life and the overwhelming majority are filled with pre-printed gushing words to express how much you love your mom/dad/sister/brother etc. I don't think we saw any with the classic British approach of 'blank for your own message'. I was astounded that you can get mother's day cards to send to your sister, your aunt, your niece etc etc. But by far the best category was the 'former mother-in-law' category... with a suitable gushing poem inside.
I think it's fair to say that all the 'special people' in our lives will be getting rather more cards than usual over the next year... and they will be as ridiculous as possible.
I was only commenting on the former mother in law category the other day. Does it include previous step - mothers in law that divorce their husband (your father in law) or only the mother of your ex husband?
ReplyDeleteI imagine it would suffice for both categories.
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