{"id":27903,"date":"2025-12-30T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=27903"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:50:57","slug":"my-mother-in-law-and-husband-claimed-mothers-day-was-only-for-older-moms-but-my-family-proved-them-wrong-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=27903","title":{"rendered":"My mother in law and husband claimed mothers day was only for older moms but my family proved them wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I gently suggested a brunch to celebrate my first Mother\u2019s Day, my husband scoffed \u2014 and my MIL sneered. \u201cIt\u2019s for real moms,\u201d they said. Stunned but silent, I sent a quiet text\u2026 never guessing it would spark a showdown they\u2019d never forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never thought Mother\u2019s Day would be the hill I\u2019d die on, but here we are. It had been almost a year since I\u2019d given birth to Lily \u2014 my perfect, chubby-cheeked little girl with her father\u2019s dark curls and my stubborn chin. Motherhood had been a tornado of sleepless nights, milk-stained shirts, and a love so fierce it sometimes knocked the wind out of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when Mother\u2019s Day approached, I thought (naively, as it turned out) that I might get a small nod of recognition. My mother-in-law Donna was visiting to discuss the Mother\u2019s Day plans. She and my husband were on the sofa in the living room while I had Lily in her high chair in the adjoining kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo for tomorrow,\u201d I overheard my husband Ryan say while I fed Lily her dinner, \u201cI was thinking we could go to your favorite Italian restaurant for lunch. They\u2019ve got that Mother\u2019s Day special menu you liked last year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I gently suggested a brunch to celebrate my first Mother\u2019s Day, my husband scoffed \u2014 and my MIL sneered. \u201cIt\u2019s for real moms,\u201d they said. Stunned&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":483,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27905,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27903\/revisions\/27905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}