5 Ways to Spend Mother’s Day Weekend With the Women You Love

This one’s for the girls.

The mothers and the daughters. The sisters who grew up sharing a bathroom and still share everything else. The best friends who have seen each other through every season. The women who choose each other, year after year, without being asked.

Mother’s Day weekend isn’t just for moms — it’s for every bond between women that has been built slowly, quietly, over time. The ones that feel like home. The ones you don’t have to explain yourself in. The ones where you can sit in comfortable silence or talk for six hours straight and both feel equally right.

If there’s a woman in your life you’ve been meaning to slow down with — this is your weekend. Here are five ways to make it count.

1. Go Out to Lunch — Just the Two of You

Not brunch. Lunch. Pick a place she actually loves — not the trendy spot, her spot. The one she always suggests and everyone else vetoes. Say yes this time.

Order too much food. Stay too long. Split the dessert even though you both said you wouldn’t. Don’t look at your phones. A good meal at a table with someone you love is one of life’s simplest pleasures, and it’s almost too easy to let the years go by without doing it intentionally. This weekend, do it intentionally.

There’s something about a shared meal — the ritual of it, the unhurried pace of it — that invites conversation you can’t quite have anywhere else. Let it go wherever it goes.

2. Pick Up a Craft Together

Stop by your local craft store with zero agenda and a loose budget. Some of our favorite picks right now: diamond art kits — meditative, satisfying, and genuinely addictive once you start. Stained glass puzzles that you assemble piece by piece and then hang on the wall as actual décor. Hand-lettering or watercolor starter kits for the duo that has always said “we should try that.”

Here’s the thing about crafting together — it’s not really about the craft. It’s about what happens while your hands are busy and your guard is down. The conversations that sneak up on you. The laughter over something that went sideways. The quiet stretches that feel comfortable instead of awkward.

Pick something neither of you has tried before. Make a mess. Frame it or don’t. The point is the afternoon, not the outcome.

3. Go Shopping Together — Shameless Plug Intended

We said what we said.

There is something genuinely fun about shopping with your person — pulling things off the rack for each other, stealing pieces from each other’s fitting room pile, talking each other into (or out of) things. It’s one of those simple activities that somehow turns into a whole afternoon without you noticing.

Come visit us at any of our Love, Olive Co locations in Rexburg, Idaho Falls, or Layton this weekend. We have free gift wrapping, treats for the moms who walk through our doors, and a floor full of spring styles worth trying on together.

Not near a store? Pull up loveoliveco.com side by side and shop together from the couch. Pick coordinating pieces — the Camrie Top comes in yellow, blue, and lavender and is exactly the kind of easy, feminine top you both end up reaching for. Or browse our best-selling favorites and build a wish list together. The point is doing it together, wherever you are.

4. Bake Something From Scratch

Clear the counter, turn something good on in the background, and make a mess in the kitchen together.

Our suggestion: sourdough. There’s something almost meditative about the process — the mixing, the folding, the waiting, the smell when it finally hits the oven. It asks you to slow down, which is exactly the energy this weekend calls for. If you don’t have a starter, a same-day focaccia is just as satisfying and far more forgiving. (We’ll be sharing a favorite recipe soon — stay tuned.)

Flour on the counter. Music up. No timeline, no agenda. A kitchen full of the smell of something warm and homemade is one of the coziest ways to spend a Sunday morning we know of.

5. Just Go Outside

Walk somewhere. A trail, a farmer’s market, a neighborhood neither of you has wandered through before. Bring coffee. Leave the earbuds home.

Some of the best conversations happen when you’re moving — side by side, no eye contact required, just talking. The kind of talking where things come out that wouldn’t come out across a table. The kind where you solve something, or remember something, or say something you’ve been meaning to say for a while.

You don’t need a plan. You just need a direction and each other.

This weekend, the best version of Mother’s Day isn’t about getting it perfect. It’s not about the right gift or the right reservation or the perfectly curated day. It’s about showing up, being present, and choosing each other for a few unhurried hours.

That’s the whole thing.

That’s always been the whole thing.

Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Love, Olive Co. We’re so glad you’re part of this community.