Make a Promise to your Mum this Mother’s Day

I know I keep bringing up Mother’s Day but it’s one of those days’ that really is special because we remember to thank that mother figure in our lives. I know I take mine for granted so often especially with all she does for me, coming to hospital appointments, letting me come back and use her shower even though I’ve long moved out – even helping me with my washing and cooking when I’m having a really bad week, if it wasn’t for that help I don’t know where I would be right now, and that’s a scary thought. My Mum is truly one of my best friends, we clash like anything sometimes I can be the rudest, snippiest, awful person and yet she’s still there with open arms.

This year to help get us ready to celebrate Boots are asking us to make a promise to our Mum’s, from something simple like picking up after ourselves, to taking her for a night out at her favourite restaurant. It can be anything your heart desires and to go alongside the promise they want you to include a gift you can buy from them that would help her to fulfil that special thing.

You can choose anything from a makeover with No 7 to a bathroom pamper session with Champneys, or if your Mum isn’t into all things beauty how about using Boots Photo to help build a special canvas of your moments together, or pop your picture on a mug.
Boots GoodiesWhat would my promise to my Mum be?

I think for me it would have to be:
I promise to continue trying – to allow you more time to enjoy your life, to continue fighting these trials that are thrown at me and not give into them and to start it off I would love to treat her to this gorgeous Sanctuary Spa Deluxe Sanctuary Hamper to give her some ‘her time’ to relax.

What’s more to help you get started thinking about your promise Boots are offering one of you the chance to win the gift of your choice for your Mum free of charge.

All you need to do to be in with a chance is:

Let me know what your promise would be and link me to the gift you would like to get to help her.

Please note you MUST leave the URL to the gift you would choose – if you don’t then your entry will be invalid.

Gifts can be chosen from the No7, Boots own ranges, Boots photo, Champneys, or Sanctuary’s ranges, up to the value of £40.

As normal once you have completed the one mandatory entry a round of optional extras will open, you do not have to complete any of these, they are just if you would like some extra chances.

Please remember to check the full TandC at the bottom of the rafflecopter application, this giveaway is open to the UK only, any entries left that do not answer the given question or have obviously not taken the time to follow the rules will be disqualified. After the one compulsory entry of answering the given question you will open a round of optional extras you do not have to enter any of these, all entrants’ names and emails maybe used by the sponsoring company to send offers and newsletters.
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Good Luck


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*My Mum will be receiving the gift picked out for her free of charge as a thank you from Boots.

191 thoughts on “Make a Promise to your Mum this Mother’s Day

  1. My promise to my Mum is to look after her in her old age. She has now got to a point where she cant look after herself any more. I live in Scotland her in England so we have decided to sell our lovely Victorian home and buy something bigger so she can move in with us. Im gutted to have to sell my home but its too small for me hubby and four kids plus mum. At the end of the day she gave her life and time to bring me up and look after me when i was young so i should do the same for her. My Brother passed away three years ago and my Sister is only interested in herself so she has no one over there to take care of her. I love my mum and i want to make her final years on this earth pleasurable.

  2. I am promising my Mum i will come and stay with her this summer and meet her new stray cat Jonesy who has moved himself in recently x

  3. My promise to my mom would be to repay her for every sacrifice she has made to provide me with a good education and a safe living environment. Every stressful day that she has endured, every time she has wanted to give up but never has and every time she’s given up something she’s wanted or loved just to make sure that my brothers and I never went without. I promise to make sure that I’m the one taking care of her from now on and I’d like to give her this No.7 bundle http://www.boots.com/en/No7-Lift-Luminate-Regime-Bundle_1260249/ so that she can have something for herself for once. She deserves a treat that can allow her to relax and forget about her worries for a while.

  4. Well I have been considering buying my mother some foot or hand cream because she won’t mind me saying she has always had very dry hands and feet. I like this burts bees set http://www.boots.com/en/Gift/Gifts-For-Her/Bath-body-gifts/Burts-Bees/ because it looks after both. I have a great mum who is always running around doing something and she looks after my two boys for me from time to time when I am working. My promise to mum is to show more appreciation for that and I’d love her to get this set and sort out her dry hands!!

  5. My mum is unique and no-one can take that away from her. Mum is very strong minded and you can ask her for advice if you are in trouble and she will understand you. If you just need someone to turn to or to talk on the phone with, she will always be there for you. My mum is the most amazing person in the world and that is why she is special. I would promise to spend more time with my mum and always be there for her as she is always there for me http://www.boots.com/en/No7-Lift-Luminate-Regime-Bundle_1260249/

  6. Mum, I promise you that I will find time for you every week no matter how busy I am. I promise to never let an argument separate us for longer than a day and I will forgive you and say sorry before I go to sleep that night. I promise I will be there when you call for help and it should not be a hard task but just a phone call away. I promise that you ageing and the complications that may arise from it will never be a burden to me but a chance for me to love you more because you loved me before I knew how to love myself. I promise to always appreciate your comments, advice and opinions even though I may not agree but because it is a sign you love and care for me. So even if one day you cannot walk i will be the one to drive you. When you cannot bath, I will be the one bathing you and no one else. When you lose your company I will company you. Never will you have to worry about being alone mum because you will forever have me. So one day when you do leave me I will not have to regret about the things I haven’t done for you as I know I have loved you till the end.

  7. I’d love to be able to make a promise (and stick to it!) that’ll I’ll stand on my own two feet and not rely on her at every turn. She’s always there (no matter how much she moans!) and helps out whenever she can. I’d love to give her http://www3.bootsphoto.com/boots/collageit/prd=photocanvas with all the grandkids on. She brought my sister and I up on her own after my dad died and looks after her grandkids like they were her own even though she has lost most of her mobility.

  8. My mum has always been a fantastic mum and works still at the age of 62 as a brilliant Foster mum supporting lots of children and providing them with stability. I pledge to cook many meals this year for my mum and would love to save up enough money to take her to New York x

  9. I would like to be able to tell my nan who has sadly passed away that she was more like a mum to me as well as my lovely nan and that I miss her every day.

  10. I will not ask her to babysit too much! And she would be happy with this too :) http://www.boots.com/en/No7-Protect-Perfect-Intense-Collection_1303554/

  11. i promise to do charity work as my mum passed away the week before mothers day i would do this for her. my wife is an amazing mother to my kids and deserves to be spoilt :)

  12. I would love to help Mom more look after Dad. He is not doing very well. I live a long way away now and it is hard to get to see them This lovely mirror would help Mom as she cannot see very well. Thanks

  13. Sorry mum was so selfish,she left me at 5 years old and even after tracking her down when i was 16 she still carried on her selfish life on her self. So i will treat my wife on mothers day not my mother.Sorry

  14. My promise is to take care of myself and get well so that mum does not have to worry about me. I constantly put others health before mine so start improving and then someone gets taken ill so my health gets put on the back burner.

  15. I promise to love her unconditionally, regardless of how grumpy she gets, to understand that now in her seventies mother is right and I not. To bite my tongue and agree.

  16. I’m promising my mum that I will try harder to shut the fridge door…I drive her up the wall by always forgetting, I’m sorry mum! xx

  17. To help with fundraising for 2 bridges in Lesotho, Africa where she is a missionary and has to drive through flooded rivers and keeps risking her life, even at 70 year of age!

  18. My mother lives in Ireland and I always mean to visit but rarely get round to it – this year I will promise to visit at least twice and I will make sure this happens.

  19. I know everyone says their mom is the best, but to me my mom is. She’s the most inspirational, fantastic woman who i am glad to call my mom. She has been disabled for as long as i can remember – but that hasn’t stopped her from caring for me and my brothers, shes amazing and lovely. I have never done anything wrong (i’m a geek and i never do anything wrong) and i promice that i never will – or at least i will try not to (im only a teen) i will never take you for granted, cause you any trouble and i promice i will continue to try and be the best daughter you can ask for. I love my mom, she’s honestly the most incredable woman i know (it sounds soppy i know, but you are. I love my mom)

    to help her relax on mothers day i would like to try and get her http://www.boots.com/en/Sanctuary-Spa-Deluxe-Sanctuary-Hamper_1296525/

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