Celebrate Your Moms
If you’re lucky enough to have your mom or grandma somewhere easily accessible, then you have the distinct pleasure of celebrating Mother’s Day with the real McCoy. As for me, I’ll have to settle for a teleconference with my mom while eating pancakes shaped like Mickey Mouse that I’ll pretend she made for me. Sniff. I love you, Mom!

If you aren’t separated by a continent, then you have some meal planning to do. A lot of people take their mom out for a beautiful brunch with the whole family. We can get behind this in theory, but if you want to be a cool kid for your cool mom, we advise you cancel your Sunday reservation, or better yet, sell it to some schmuck on Craigslist.

Mother’s Day Brunch is a close second to Valentine’s Day in terms of amateur hour at restaurants; it’s like New Year’s Eve and St. Patrick’s Day at the bars: unbearable. The most preferable option for Mom is to make her brunch yourself (and do the subsequent dishes!). Hit up one of the local markets early, then whip up your mother’s favorite meal. Make sure it includes hollandaise, because everything is better with hollandaise.

If you must dine out, go tomorrow. The Post’s Going Out Gurus have posted a list of Sunday brunch options, which are good choices in general, but are now Places To Avoid on the big day. See if you can waltz in on Saturday morning instead, when you’ll have fewer groups of screaming kids and more unshowered and hungover law school students who finished their finals the day before. It’s all about atmosphere, and you’ll look like a golden child next to those shlumps.

Here’s a few recommendations for some non-traditional celebrations for all the moms out there:

Photo from the Skipping Hippy.