Mother's Day Choose Your Own Adventure!

Thousands of you downloaded my Mother’s Day Choose Your Own Adventure sheet, and many of you reported back that it made your Mother’s Day the best day ever. So here it shall live, in case you weren’t able to catch it the first time or want to download it when you need it for next Mother’s Day.

This is a digital download PDF you can send digitally for Mom to highlight, mark up, or fill out, or you can print it out and have her check or circle her preferences by hand.

The printable uses our simple Celebration Formula: Do, Eat, Receive. Mom communicates the general vibe of how she wants to be celebrated this year, including what she wants to do, eat, and receive, plus things like wake-up time, level of human interaction, and special requests for the day.

The goal is not for Mom to plan her own Mother’s Day. The goal is for her to communicate the category of celebration that would feel good, and then her partner or family can plan and execute the specifics with intention.

For example, if she checks “book,” she is not choosing her own gift. Her partner still gets to activate their knowledge of her and intentionally choose a book she would love.

Because the way we want to be celebrated can change every year, this helps remove the guessing while still leaving room for thoughtfulness, surprise, and intentional planning.

Mother's Day Choose Your Own Adventure!

This is a digital download PDF you can send digitally for Mom to highlight, mark up, or fill out, or you can print it out and have her check or circle her preferences by hand.

For example, if she checks “book,” she is not choosing her own gift. Her partner still gets to activate their knowledge of her and intentionally choose a book she would love.

Because the way we want to be celebrated can change every year, this helps remove the guessing while still leaving room for thoughtfulness, surprise, and intentional planning.