Mother’s Day.  All about Mom?  Sometimes!  However, when you are spending it with your Little, you want to make sure they enjoy themselves too!  Here are some fun things to do that vary in price from free to pricey:

- Picnic in the Park.  Pack your picnic basket and get going!  Take a blanket for the grass.

- BBQ at home with your family.  Have everyone bring something over and have fun!  Make sure you have activities planned for the kiddo’s.

- What events are in your area?  Delaware was the Wilmington Flower Show every year on Mother’s Day Weekend.  Flowers and fun activities for everyone :)

- Mani’s/Pedi’s!  This is a fun thing to do with your girl at different stages in her life!  When they are a toddler, they love feeling special.  As they get older, they will either love it or hate it.  But, as my daughter tells me, it’s my day, so, she’ll suck it up, lol.  But, now that she is older and getting into doing nails more, hopefully she isn’t just going because it’s MY day!

- Shopping – What better way to enjoy time with your girl?  Sorry mom’s of boys, I don’t think they’ll enjoy this one too much either!

- Movies – Unfortunately, this year, I wasn’t thrilled with the selection out there that she AND I could enjoy.  And the one’s we would, we’ve already seen!

- Game Day – Spend time together playing games!  Especially if it’s a rainy day.  Perfect way to just chill and enjoy uninterrupted time with your kiddo’s.  Don’t let little things interrupt, that normally do on other days.

- Ice Cream Shop – You are NEVER too old for Ice Cream :)

- Hiking – Get the whole family out there and enjoy the nature’s bounty around us :)

- Breakfast in Bed…  For you and the kid’s!  When you’re a Single Parent, you don’t normally get to enjoy this one until your kids are older.  But, why not help them make it and you all go back to bed and enjoy that treat!

- Sporty – Hit the Tennis Courts, go Bowling, shoot some hoops or go bicycling.

- Matching Tattoo’s – Kidding!!!!  Just wanted to make sure you were awake and reading!

What do you and your family do for Mother’s Day?  Do you have traditions?  This year my girl and I are going to get Manicure’s, go to Lunch and enjoy a game afternoon :)

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Abercrombie & Fitch CEO is a prime example of why kids these days, don’t like themselves.  He issued a statement saying that he will not make XL or XXL size clothing for women because they are not part of the “cool group” at schools.  OMG.  Are you flipping kidding me???  Why in the world would you freely admit this?  I mean, seriously…  All he had to say is “That is not the style clothing we choose to offer”.  Ok then.  That would have been MORE than sufficient.

There are so many girls out there with such low self esteem because they don’t fit what Abercrombie & Fitch’s CEO, Mike Jeffries, considers “the mold”.  From what I remember when I was in High School, there were some girls who were not a size 0, or a size 10, that were part of the “in crowd”.  In my daughter’s school, there are kids outside those sizes, and is part of the “in crowd”.  How dare this man come in and undermine any shred of confidence these girls may have had because their friends like them just the way they are, even if he doesn’t?

Quoted from this interview, “He doesn’t want larger people shopping in his store, he wants thin and beautiful people,” Lewis said.  “He doesn’t want his core customers to see people who aren’t as hot as them wearing his clothing.  People who wear his clothing should feel like they’re one of the “cool kids””.  This makes me sick.  As a mother of a girl who is a size 0 and has friends who are not as skinny and she is part of the “in crowd”, I am VERY proud that my daughter looks beyond the size of their clothing and sees the HUMAN BEING behind the clothes.

Ash - 1 - April 2013My girl – Beautiful Inside and Out

He goes on to say that “hot people are his primary marketing tactic”.  “It’s almost everything.  That’s why we hire good-looking people in our stores.”  Hmmm.  That sounds like a discrimination suit waiting to happen, to me.  Basing your employment on your looks and not your skills?

It is men like Jeffries who turn teen girls to suicide.  How would he like to be on the flip side?  He’s not all that good looking himself.  So, who is HE to pass judgment on anyone?  I will not allow my daughter to shop in this store.  She doesn’t need to help support some Neanderthal with preconceived notions about what is and is not attractive.  He is a disgusting little man who should not be the driving force of a company like this. I seriously hope they do not renew his contract past 2014.

Those of you who know me, know that I do not go on rants such as this.  But, when you mess with a kid’s confidence, I will back each and every one of them.  Skinny or Obese.  You know, because that is what a TRUE adult would do.  Not someone who is trying to have a “do-over” and surround himself with people he didn’t have the first time around.  If he has this kind of personality, I’m sure the friends he has now?  Are probably hanging around to have the “privilege” (word is used very loosely) of saying, “Oh, Mike Jeffries?  The CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch? Yes, I just hung out with him last weekend in The Hamptons.  And what did you do?”  Name dropping groupies I call them :) .

 

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