Wondering what to get Mom for Mother’s Day this year? Well, surprisingly enough, there’s plenty of articles about what NOT to get Mom. Here’s one I found at scarymommy.com. Enjoy!
From scarymommy.com:
It is a fact not scientifically proven that all moms just want to be given at least a handmade card and then be left the f alone on Mother’s Day. It is not a day in which we want to be given nothing. We want our lifelong, never-ending, 24/7 efforts to be recognized, damnit. But of course, as with everything else, our day inevitably won’t always go to plan; that is scientifically proven.
So we asked you, our dear readers, on both Facebook and Instagram for the absolute crappiest gifts you’ve ever gotten for Mother’s Day, and you didn’t disappoint. Below, in no particular order, are some of the best worst responses we got.
No matter what happens this year: We here at Scary Mommy see you, and appreciate you.
“A pedicure with my mother-in-law”
“Olive oil because my husband thought I’d “really like the bottle it came in.”
“First mother’s day my husband gave me $50 to get that “grill I’ve been talking about.” Yeah, I put it together and made dinner on it too. It’s taken over 20 years, but he’s gotten better”
“A dog hair remover brush”
“Pajamas four years in a row… Please get me anything else.”
“A card that the child was meant to decorate but she was a month old so it was just plain white”
“Deodorant. I actually had wanted to try this new brand, but NOT as a gift”
“A Lazy Susan for the pantry. My husband had also already gotten me a Lazy Susan for Christmas”
“Wiper Blades”
“A gift card for a golf course my husband likes to play at. I don’t golf. Obviously he used it.”
“A mother’s day card after I miscarried. The thought was nice but it hurt more than anything at that point”
“The line that I’m not HIS mother so he doesn’t have to get me a gift”
“An offer to spend “quality” time with my kids by taking them out for a special activity that I would choose and arrange. I’m a stay-at-home mom. So I was offered: Nothing. Absolutely nothing different than I do every day. Yay. Yes, he really thought he was giving a good gift.”
“A vacuum and not a great vacuum either.”
Responses have been lightly edited for clarity.
SOURCE: SCARYMOMMY.COM
Sew Colorful 
where’s the wine? 😉
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is the vacuum a hoover?
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“Sovereignty Crowned Winner at Kentucky Derby”
Breitbart News, 3 May 2025
May 3 (UPI) — Sovereignty rallied by Journalism in deep stretch Saturday to win the 151st Kentucky Derby by 1 1/2 lengths, giving Dubai-based Godolphin its first victory in the Run for the Roses and a weekend international trifecta of top-level Classic victories.
Sovereignty, last seen finishing second in the Grade I Florida Derby, raced well back in the 19-horse field until the final turn, when last year’s 2-year-old champion, Citizen Bull, began to fade from the lead. The Godolphin homebred colt, a son of Into Mischief, turned into the stretch and, as the field straightened out for the long run to the finish, saw only Santa Anita Derby winner Journalism ahead of him.
With Junior Alvarado riding, Sovereignty wore down that rival and was kicking clear as he crossed the finish line.
Baeza, the Santa Anita Derby runner-up who got into the Kentucky Derby at the last moment thanks to a late scratch, also rallied late to finish third, another 1/4 length back. Final Gambit, previously raced on all-weather tracks, was fourth and Tampa Bay Derby winner Owen Almighty finished fifth.
The 1 1/4 miles on a sloppy track took 2:02.31. It was the first Derby win for both Alvarado and for Godolphin, the racing and breeding entity of Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, who entered the race winless in 13 tries. It was trainer Bill Mott’s second Derby win but the first came on the disqualification of Maximum Security in 2019, which boosted Country House to the title.
“This one got there the right way,” Mott said. “He’s done well. He’s a great horse. He comes from a great organization. … I couldn’t have hoped for him to be doing anything differently. I mean, if I had to make a wish and want something different, I couldn’t have thought what it was.”
Mott said he lost track of Sovereignty, one of two Godolphin runners in the 19-horse field, before he made his big move. “I saw him gearing up when he left the half-mile pole,” he said. “He started to pick up some momentum and I lost him a little bit between the half mile and the three-eighths. I mean, he made up a lot of ground in a hurry.”
Michael Banahan, Godolphin’s U.S. representative, celebrated the Derby win along with the victory Friday of Good Cheer in the Grade I Kentucky Oaks and, earlier Saturday, Godolphin’s Ruling Court in the Group 1 English 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, the first of the European Classics — an unprecedented triple.
“It’s a race that we always wanted to win,” Banahan said of the Kentucky Derby as he stood on the infield winner’s circle. “Godolphin likes to compete in all the best races around the world, be it the Epsom Derby, the Melbourne Cup, Dubai World Cup and, eventually, the Kentucky Derby.
“So, we’re so grateful to be here, standing up here, looking at the Twin Spires from this side, rather than from over there. It’s a great feeling. It was a wonderful horse race. You’ve got the two best horses, one from the East Coast, one from the West Coast, locking down there, not one of them giving an inch, right down to the wire, just before we eventually got the better of Journalism. It was a fantastic race.”
The natural question is whether Sovereignty will progress to the Preakness Stakes, the second jewel of the U.S. Triple Crown, at Pimlico Racecourse in Baltimore in two weeks’ time. “We’ll see how he comes out of the race,” Banahan said. “We’ll see what the Hall of Fame trainer wants to do. It’s the logical place to go and we’d love to come back and try to win the Preakness.”
Mott, the “Hall of Fame trainer,” said, “The pressure is on now to go. Had he not won, maybe you wouldn’t feel obligated to do it. We’ll try to do the right thing.”
Mott and Sheik Mohammed go back about as far as possible in the racing world. Mott trained Cigar, the winner of the inaugural Dubai World Cup in 1996, putting His Highness’ signature race on the global map. Still, Sheik Mohammed will have the final say on plans for his first Derby winner.”
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Breitbart: “Elon Musk opened up to reporters about his time working for Donald Trump’s government in a “comically tiny office,” including an amusing anecdote about a midnight ice cream run to the White House kitchen at Trump’s urging.
On Wednesday, Musk spoke with a small group of reporters inside the White House’s Roosevelt Room, where he discussed his work as a special government employee during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days of his second term in office, according to a report by Fox News.
The SpaceX CEO said that so far, he has saved U.S. taxpayers more than $160 billion while leading the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during what was “an intense period” that at times resulted in him working “seven days a week, or close to seven days a week.”
Endearingly, Musk also shed some light on the atmosphere of his workplace for the last 100 days, noting it included a “comically tiny office,” sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom, midnight ice cream snacks from the White House kitchen, and a friendship with President Trump.
“I didn’t think I would ever sleep in there,” Musk told Fox News of his multiple overnight stays in the White House’s Lincoln bedroom. Musk recalled President Trump calling him late at night to say, “By the way, make sure you get ice cream from the kitchen.”
“The president is a very good host,” Musk said, adding, “I went to the kitchen and got some ice cream — I ate a whole tub of ice cream. Caramel. Häagen-Dazs. Don’t tell RFK I ate a whole tub,” the head of DOGE quipped.
As for Musk’s “comically tiny office,” he told reporters it is located “on the top floor” and “has a view of nothing.” “It has a window, but all you see is an HVAC unit,” Musk revealed. “I guess it’s harder to shoot me — there’s not a good line of sight in there.”
As for his work leading DOGE, Musk said he believes the department has “made progress,” but noted it “could be more effective.” “In the grand scheme of things, I think we’ve been effective,” the SpaceX CEO said.
“The federal government is a gigantic beast — very complicated — and so if you’re trying to figure out how to stop waste and fraud, you’ve got to map the territory,” Musk added. “That required three months of intense effort, and you have to build the team as well.”
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Burning Bright: “The first 100 days have been a multi-layered, perhaps even multi-dimensional TRAP for the Deep State regime, and they’ve fallen right into it. As I tried to come up with a way to condense the kaleidescopic micros into one overarching macro in the current chapter of the Info War, the Shadow War and the War of Stories, that was the one that just kept bubbling up to the fore.
Let’s explore it a bit:
No doubt you’ve seen Trump and team making the victory rounds this week to celebrate the First 100 days, an entirely arbitrary and yet, strangely meaningful inflection point on which many presidential terms start out. While it’s not ALWAYS the case, it can be argued that the First 100 Days sets the tone not just in terms of what the American people can expect from their president, but what the President can expect from the people he’s been elected to represent.
Among the long line of items Trump and team have been signal boosting are a successful and immediate crackdown on US border security, the beginnings of a direct and effective Eisenhower model purge of illegal criminal aliens infecting our society, the many Actuals (and FAR more Narratives) that have come out of the Department of Government Efficiency, whose many-colored genies can never be put back in their respective bottles, and, of course, the beginnings of a Sovereign Trade War that I have been arguing is merely the thin Narrative veneer covering a long-planned and long-needed reset of the American and global financial system.
And yet, that last point is undoubtedly the most contentious … if you’re listening to the establishment talking heads, various heads of state … hell, the entire western hegemon, and even some of the members of what I have dubbed the Sovereign Alliance as they spar with Trump’s absolute blitzkrieg to kick off what we’re told is going to be a new American Golden Age.
So, why am I saying it’s a TRAP?
Because Donald Trump and his team KNOW that the Trade War and said economic reset are far from finished, they KNOW that the net effects of the current period of chaotic (and yet, entirely planned) decoupling will be rocky, and they KNOW that the end state is going to result in the very Golden Age setup that Trump first promised shortly after he came down that golden escalator all those years ago, that the most infamous information dissemination program of all time doubled down on in the years that followed, and that the Biden Regime cultivated mass public mandate for before Trump’s (public) return.
You see, from where I’m sitting, Trump isn’t taking premature victory laps because he thinks we’ve won. It’s because he knows we’re going to … and on the back of the very deployments and First Principles, America First tactics and Sovereign Solutions the enemy (be they media shills, Con Inc. charlatans or fake presidents the western world over) are doubling down on opposing.
Trump is drawing a line of demarcation between the past and the future. Time to pick a side.”
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And Journalism barely held onto 2nd!!!
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Just the News: “Brazilian police said on Sunday that they foiled a bomb plot to launch an attack during record artist Lady Gaga’s concert in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. The concert drew about 2 million to Copacabana Beach.
“The suspects were recruiting participants, including minors, to carry out coordinated attacks using improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails,” the police said in a statement.
Reuters reported that Brazilian authorities conducted more than 12 search and seizure warrants in the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro, Mato Grosso, Rio Grande do Sul and Sao Paulo.
The leader of the group allegedly behind the plot was arrested in Rio Grande do Sul for illegal firearm possession and another suspect, a teenager, was detained in Rio de Janeiro for child pornography possession.”
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NF: Secretariat was known as an outstanding “damsire.” He produced outstanding breeding mares more than stallions. The mare is actually of more importance than the sire.
“Every horse running in Kentucky Derby 2025 is a descendant of this racing legend”
Louisville Courier Journal, Stephanie Kuzydym. May 3, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Secretariat. 1973. The fastest mile-and-a-quarter in Kentucky Derby history. You know the stats. But did you know that more than 50 years after Big Red ran for the roses (and then the Triple Crown), his greatness still factors prominently in American horse racing.
In fact, a search of pedigrees shows every horse running in the 151st Kentucky Derby is a descendant of Secretariat. While it sounds impressive, more often than not, if you go back six generations in most horses, you’ll find they’re a descendant of some great, like Secretariat or Northern Dancer.
“It’s one of those stats,” Derby contending trainer Whit Beckman said. “It’s bound to happen at some point with how much he shows up in every single pedigree. It’s really cool. Very cool.” Beckman trains Flying Mohawk, who claims Secretariat in his pedigree five generations back.
Secretariat was the sire of Weekend Surprise, a blue hen mare, and the dam of A.P. Indy, the 1992 Horse of the Year. A.P. Indy is the third sire of Sandman, as well as the fourth sire of Coal Battle. (That’s the great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, respectively.)
A.P. Indy, who went on to win the Belmont Stakes by clocking the second-fastest running behind his damsire Secretariat, shows up in the third generation of Render Judgment and Sovereignty (fifth-generation descendant of Secretariat), as well as the fourth generation of Chunk of Gold and Journalism (sixth generation).
Secretariat was also the sire of Terlingua, the dam of Storm Cat. Storm Cat, a dark bay horse, was once the leading sire in North America. (He remained in Kentucky to stand his entire career.) Storm Cat was the third sire of Final Gambit, as well as the fourth sire of Neoequos, Citizen Bull, Admire Daytona and Luxor Cafe. Storm Cat was Tiztastic’s great grandsire, making him a fifth-generation Secretariat descendant.
(You can find Storm Cat in last year’s Kentucky Derby winner’s lineage, Mystik Dan. Storm Cat is his fifth sire, making Secretariat his great-great-great-great-great grandsire.)
American Promise has a long pedigree to Secretariat, eight generations ago, through his father’s line ― although A.P. Indy appears through his mother’s line four generations ago.
East Avenue can claim Secretariat in his lineage seven generations ago. While Publisher has Storm Cat in his lineage, his shorter relation to Big Red is through his fourth dam Secrettame, sired by Secretariat and Tamerett. Owen Almighty is a fifth-generation Secretariat descendant, while Baeza is a sixth-generation descendant. Then there’s Burnham Square, whose lineage to Secretariat goes back only four generations.
In all, Secretariat sired more than 660 registered foals. And 52 years after crossing the wire at Churchill Downs, one of his descendants is about to become a Kentucky Derby champion.”
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