Intro
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It’s important to show your mom that you love her every day, but Mother’s Day is particularly important. In the US, Mother’s Day occurs on the second Sunday in May. On this holiday, you may express your feelings to your mom by making her a card, or giving her flowers, or taking her out to brunch. Or maybe she’d prefer breakfast in bed!
When a woman becomes a mother, Mother’s Day changes. In addition to celebrating her mom, her children and loved ones begin to celebrate her. Find out how Marni feels about her first Mother’s Day as a mom in this holiday English lesson.
Dialog
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Mason: So, Marni, are you excited for your first Mother’s Day?
Marni: You know, I hadn’t even thought about it, but you’re absolutely right! I officially get to celebrate this holiday because I am officially a mother.
Mason: What’s it like when all of a sudden there’s this holiday you’ve been participating in your whole life from one side, and now you’re in the club?
Marni: It has new meaning, it’s true. I don’t know. I guess I’m kind of excited. I never thought about it, because what I love about Mother’s Day is going out to brunch and giving my mom flowers, so I guess now I can be the recipient of all those things.
Mason: You absolutely can. Why is it that brunch is such a Mother’s Day thing?
Marni: I don’t know. It’s fun to go out, and you get to spend time with someone over a meal, and just chat. You’re right, it is just kind of synonymous with Mother’s Day. I like it.
Mason: You don’t think it’s just because the powers-that-be wanted to ensure that mom was still gonna cook dinner? We can’t let her off the hook from that?
Marni: Ah, that’s true. But I’m not gonna cook dinner, so I’d better have meals made for me all day.
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Discussion
Mason realizes that a big event is coming up in Marni’s life: she’s about to celebrate her first Mother’s Day as a mother herself. She is now “in the club” of mothers. She realizes that she can now enjoy all the benefits of motherhood that she has given to her own mother in the past.
Mason wonders why Mother’s Day brunch is such a popular tradition. It might just be because it’s nice to share a meal with your mother. Mason wonders, too, if it might come from an expectation that a mother should cook dinner, even on her holiday. Marni doesn’t care about that expectation. She doesn’t want to cook any meals for herself on Mother’s Day.
Is Mother’s Day celebrated in your country? What do you do to celebrate your mother? If you are a mother, how do you like your family to show you their appreciation?
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