How will you spend Mother’s Day during the Covid-19 pandemic

Mother’s Day this year, Sunday, May 10, will be quite different compared to last year and past subsequent years because of the coronavirus outbreak as social distancing become the norm to help avert more people contracting the illness.

Families will not be getting together for a big dinner or going out to a restaurant and being able to hug grandma, mom, all the aunts and everyone who served as a mother-figure. In lieu of that families will have an uncommon Mother’s Day.     

“My mom will sit on her porch and we will sit on the front lawn,” North Woodmere resident Elysa Rothenberg said. “My sister who is stuck in the city will be on FaceTime. We’ll have lunch together. Maybe sandwiches from local deli. If it rains, we’ll just conference call with mom and keep the phone on while everyone has a bite. As far as my own house with my sons- that's be the one day I’m not cooking!

We would go to the East Point Inn East Rockaway, then the backroom at Goldie’s [Restaurant] in Gibson when we had kids, where they could run around,” said Syd Mandelbaum, of Cedarhurst, about past Mother’s Days. This year he, “Will send over a meal to my mother-in-law in rockaway. My mother is in a senior center in New Jersey and we’ll see her Saturday in her garage and bring lunch.”

“Volunteering for Gammy’s Pantry and the Five Towns Community Center,” is how Sasha Young from Inwood will spend Mother’s Day this year instead of her usual multi-generation celebration. “For many, many years past spending the day with four generations of kind and caring women that I adore ... now three since Gammy (Sasha’s grandmother Betty Young) became an angel. Alexis and Alexandra (Sasha’s daughters) and her mother.

Occasional Herald contributor Phyllis Weinberger from North Woodmere responded, “In the house! [We] usually go out to celebrate.”