Mother’s Day – Give me strength
May 6, 2010 in Uncategorized
What on earth is wrong with the world. I have just logged onto The Herald web page and an article entitle ‘Kids, don’t poison mum this Mother’s Day’caught my attention. It caught my attention because I have spent hours this year preparing for Mother’s Day this Sunday. Sadly those plans now lay in tatters. The article was warning inexperienced chefs to follow basic hygiene etiquette this Mother’s Day if they are planning on making your special person breakfast in bed. The results if they don’t could be catastrophic.
” The Food Safety Council is encouraging inexperienced cooks to ensure they are hygienic and clean if and when they try their hand in the kitchen on Sunday. “Those wanting the perfect day for Mum may be creating kitchen treats without much experience so it’s important for them to carry out the food safety basics,” council executive Juliana Madden said.”
Many people may think this kind of advice is over the top but as a responsible parent I will be taking this advice to heart and my plan of breakfast in bed has now gone by the wayside. I will now be planning something else.
Incidentally, the bunch of roses that I have painstakingly grown over the last 4 months will also have to go as the Gardening Safety Council has also come out with a warning that inappropriate flower arrangements are incredibly dangerous. This comes after one man was seriously injured last Valentines day when a stray rose thorn got caught in his ear lobe.
I had then planned to then take our wonderful mum to the beach on Sunday afternoon but with the Tsunami Alert Foundation urging caution around New Zealand beaches I think that it is probably better to stay at home. Next on our planned Mother’s Day was a voucher for a relaxing facial at an upmarket spa complex. This will also have to be put on hold as The Cancer Foundation has recently come forward and said that regular application of make-up causes cancer and hormonal conditions.
As you can see this leaves very few options for the ‘average man’. On the one hand we are told to act romantically and put our wifes first. Yet on the other side we have warnings that our very acts of romance and appreciation are causing the ones we love hardache. Therefore, I think I will just let Mother’s Day run its course this Sunday and hopefully the Women’s Foundation against Apathitic Men, who are probably editing their press release now, will stay off my back.
ZenTiger said on May 19, 2010
What were you thinking? Even celebrating Mother’s Day can cause stresses on the heart. No, just let her sleep in and take the kids off somewhere like white water rafting, abseiling, hunting or deep sea fishing in a small dinghy.