Mother’s Day Baby Shower

Just quietly I am a tad excited.

Next month is Mother’s Day and it will be my first as a Mum.

Not only that but as a daughter with a new-found admiration for her own mother and all the mums out there, whose job I underestimated for so long.

When I was little, I remember each year our primary school had a Mother’s Day fundraiser and my mum soon gathered quite a collection of pot pouri bags, plastic red roses and tissue box covers.

Since then, Mum insisted all she wanted each Mother’s Day was breakfast in bed and a kiss and cuddle. Of course my bother and I have to rack our brains every year to find her something that she won’t be upset by (thinking we have spent too much money), but will show we have put a little more thought into it than grabbing a bunch of flowers on the way from the local petrol station.

After becoming a mother myself, I have become more sensitive and aware of the plights of other mothers who are doing it way tougher than I can imagine, so when Bec Neilson reached out to me about the Child’s i Foundation and I started reading her blog  and about the work being done in Uganda to help vulnerable mothers and families, I stopped and wanted to find out more.

About Child's i Foundation…

This Mother’s Day, stop and think about the gift you are going to purchase or (request).

Consider something different. A chance to give back to those who can’t help themselves.

Child’s i Foundation are hosting a Mother's Day Baby Shower and with any gift you purchase, they will send a handwritten card featuring one of their beautiful babies to your loved one, letting them know what you purchased for them.

For example, my Mum’s gift will provide a week’s Cows milk and clean water for Children arriving at their centre (don’t tell her this is what I have bought!).

If nothing else, please consider this as an option.

Take at look at the website, follow them on Twitter or Facebook or email Bec (bec@childsifoundation.org) if you have any questions or want more information.

I hope to write more about my first “real” Mother’s Day experience as the day gets closer and would love to here what you are planning for Mother's Day.