The Mother’s Day Gifts We Never Forget (And the Memories Behind Them)

Podcast Episode

Date: May 12, 2026
Mother’s Day changes over time — especially once your kids grow up. In this episode of Moms Unhinged, the moms share funny, heartfelt, and completely unhinged stories about unforgettable gifts, family traditions, empty nest motherhood, and the emotional chaos hiding underneath the holiday. From homemade keepsakes to 20 years of unopened presents, this conversation is equal parts comedy, nostalgia, and relatable mom truth.
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Nothing says Mother’s Day like waking up at 5 AM for a softball tournament.

This week on Moms Unhinged, Andrea sits down with fellow comedians Donna Lee and Stephanie McHugh for a Mother’s Day conversation that starts out sentimental and slowly turns into the kind of family stories that somehow resurface every single year.

The moms talk about emotional gifts, sports tournaments scheduled on Mother’s Day, adult kids trying to coordinate holidays between families, and a few stories that probably should’ve stayed private.

Somewhere along the way, there’s also a conversation involving a family Christmas tradition involving duct-taped gift cards and Donna’s mom sincerely believing Jimmy Buffett owned Macaroni Grill.

We Talk About:

  • Discovering decades of unopened crystal gifts
  • The weird politics of adult kids splitting holidays
  • The homemade video gift Andrea still cries watching
  • A family Christmas tradition involving duct tape and gift cards
  • Childhood gift ideas that made complete sense at the time

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Mother’s Day memories that still stick

Donna Lee: So every year I’d get her a little piece of crystal from somewhere.

And then one year, I was in my senior year of college. I came home, and I was looking in the kitchen, or the dining room for something. There were some drawers underneath the china cabinet, and I was looking for an empty box. And my mom said, “Oh, you find empty box wherever.” And so I went there and I opened it, and it was, I’m not kidding, 20 years of gifts that I’d given her still in the boxes.

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Andrea Marie: Hello, everyone. It is Andrea with Moms Unhinged, and I am here with the amazing Donna Lee and Stephanie McHugh. And yay, happy almost Mother’s Day, guys.

It is May. It’s wild. And we are here to talk about Mother’s Day, talk about what’s going on, talk about, all the things Mother’s Day related. We’re all, like, empty nesters now, right? Yeah, we’re all empty nesters. Yeah. So before we hopped on, we were like, “God, do we remember what happened? I don’t feel like I remember Mother’s Day past.” Yeah, so I think we’ll start with the most memorable. Do you guys have, like, a most memorable Mother’s Day that you know, kinda stands out in your head for, like, something that happened, or what… You know?

Stephanie McHugh: I remember my first Mother’s Day. I lived outside of Chicago in Naperville, and I loved to hike. Now I live back in Colorado, and Sugar Nuts wasn’t never… was it never? We’re just using good English today. It’s Mother’s Day. I can say it however I want.

Andrea Marie: There’s no one correcting us.

Stephanie McHugh: So he took me to, I think it’s a state park. It’s called Starved Rock.

Andrea Marie: Oh, yeah, it’s beautiful.

Stephanie McHugh: Yeah, it is. So we went hiking there and, we had the backpack carrier for Rachel, who was a baby, he got me Fannie May, turtles. They were pecans and I ate the whole box. It was so good.

When I say I’m a sweet tooth, I’m not kidding.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Stephanie McHugh: Yeah. love, you know, good caramels. Yeah, so that was my first. Yeah.

Andrea Marie: That was your very first. So Rachel was baby, baby.

Stephanie McHugh: Baby, baby. Just in the backpack, yeah, ’cause she was born in October, so what? She was, like, eight months, six, seven months, something.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Oh, that’s fun.

Stephanie McHugh: It was fun.

Andrea Marie: Aw.

Stephanie McHugh: Then once the second one comes in, it just all kinda becomes a blur too, doesn’t it?

Andrea Marie: Yeah, for sure. How about you, Donna? What’s your most memorable?

Donna Lee: Right, my Mother’s Days were all Groundhog Days because my birthday’s really close to Mother’s Day, and my mom and I have the same birthday.

And yeah, it’s no big secret to you if you’ve heard any of my stories, but my mom and I did not get along. And we fought and fought, and we loved each other fiercely, but at the same time, every year it was my mom, you know, “Donna, what we do for our birthday together?”

And I’m like, “We have nothing in common. I don’t wanna do anything with you.” But every single year it was the same thing. And then so Mother’s Day would fall really close to, “Oh, Donna, what we do for Mother’s Day and birthday together?” I’m like, “Oh, damn it.” Does it have to?

Andrea Marie: Here we are again, another year.

Space these out a little more.

Donna Lee: make this.

Stephanie McHugh: Together even. So you couldn’t just celebrate hers and do what she wanted, and then you get to do whatever you want. It’s all merged together.

Donna Lee: All merged together. We pretty much just to, you know, be a good daughter, I would do, you know, we would do birthday and Mother’s Day with her on a Sunday and make a big deal, and it was always something that I dreaded. You know, something that she would like. But I do this story on stage.

The Jimmy Buffett and Macaroni Grill debate

Donna Lee: But her favorite place used to be Macaroni Grill, and they’re not open anymore, but if you remember Macaroni Grill. My mom, Loved her Macaroni Grill, and she would get her two little glasses of wine and get super drunk, and was so embarrassing.

And we were sitting table one year and she said, “Donna, you know who owned this restaurant?” And I was like, “Mom, who?”

And I was always so embarrassed. I was a teenager until, I mean, into adulthood. I was like, “Mom, you’re so embarrassing.” I would be like, “Mom, what are you talking about?” And she’d say, “Donna, you know who own Macaroni Grill? Jimmy Buffett.” And I said, “Mom, Jimmy Buffett doesn’t own Macaroni Grill.” She said “Yes, Donna, he own Macaroni Grill. He have song about it. Wasting away again at Macaroni Grill.” I was like, “that’s not how it goes, Mom.”

Yeah, so now every we hear Margaritaville, we just sing Macaroni Grill.

Andrea Marie:  That’s hilarious. That is so funny. That was one of my most memorable Mother’s Days.  Yeah. Oh my gosh, that’s so funny.

The homemade gift that still makes Andrea cry

Andrea Marie: Well, mine is, it’s probably because it’s better documented, but one year. So Steve, my ex, was such a thoughtful gift giver. He would come up with these Oh. amazing gifts, and they were just always so perfect.

He would, like, he’d hear a snippet and you know, remember. But one year, he put together a whole, like, montage of video of me with the boys, teaching them how to ride a bike, me with the boys, like, you know, wrestling around on the floor with them, being silly. And then interspersed, he had the boys drawing and making their Mother’s Day card to me.

And they were each drawing, and my one youngest son was probably about three, and he had this little, like, cute little lisp, and he’s like, ” I’m drawing pink.” You know, it was so cute, interspersed just with this song that was, like, this country song about how fast motherhood goes and all this stuff. I sobbed my eyes out watching this video. I was a wreck ’cause it was so beautiful.

And I still watch it, like, you know, like I go and find it, you know, and watch it and just again get all emotional. And, you know, it’s just the sweetest, sweetest video. And, uh, so that, that was my most memorable one because then they gave me the cards and I saw the video, like, you know, showed them making the cards, so I was just like, it was just such a sweet, sweet, gift.

And then, like, I would turn around and give him like, a gift card, you know? I was, I’m a terrible, terrible gift giver. I really am so… I’m like, “Here’s some cash for Father’s Day.”

Stephanie McHugh: Go get yourself something pretty.

Andrea Marie: I know.

I know, right? So bad.

Stephanie McHugh: It is stressful though, isn’t it, if you’re not. Yeah, Sugar Nut’s family was really very good at gift giving, and if that’s not. Yeah, it’s hard.

Andrea Marie: It’s hard. I don’t… I usually wait till the last second, and then there’s no time to do anything really special, so it’s really just usually bad. Or a picture of what I ordered that’s coming in a week. And so, so anyway, but you know, it’s an interesting day.

The pressure of Mother’s Day traditions

Andrea Marie: It is like Mother’s you know? There’s a lot of pressure, and it kind of can be, I feel like it can be, like, really tough. You know, maybe they’re trying to make you a meal or something, and they’re burning everything, and I’m like, in bed just going, “Oh, God. Now the cleanup is going to be terrible,” you know? Like.

Donna Lee: That’s funny.

Stephanie McHugh: It’s my daughter’s first Mother’s Day. Do you give Mother’s Day cards or anything to people who aren’t your mom?

Andrea Marie: Yeah. That’s a good question. I mean, I would think to your daughter, for sure.

Stephanie McHugh: Yeah.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. But I never gave… I mean, some people would give Mother’s Day to people who were, like, had a mom, like, you know, influence on them, but I never did anything like that.

Stephanie McHugh: Yeah.

Donna Lee: That’s a good point. I haven’t thought of that. I’m gonna be gone this Mother’s Day for the first Mother’s Day, I think, ever, ’cause I have shows in Louisiana.

And so I had to call my son and tell him because he was like, “Mother, what are we doing for Mother’s Day? I’m gonna take somewhere and we’re gonna do this.”

And I was like, “Oh, Sterling.”

But, I had a way out, because my son, he lives with his girlfriend, and they live right next to her parents and they’re super, super close. So I was like, “Oh my God, I know. You’re gonna be with your girlfriend’s mom, so no worries.

He was like, “Well, yeah. Gonna be with her for sure. But you know, if you wanna do…” I was like, “Why don’t we just put it off till the next weekend?”

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Yeah, that’s true. Once you get in, once they get in a relationship, then it’s like whose mom are we, know?

Donna Lee: Oh, we’re always second fiddle now. The girl comes first. I’m like, “I’m okay with that.” My son, he’s gonna kill me if he knows this story’s out there in the world, but he called the other day and I said, “What are you doing?” Speaking of almost moms. And he goes, “Oh, well, my girlfriend’s sick and I’m at HEB getting her some fluids.”

And I was like, “What’s the symptoms?” And he goes, “She’s got a stomach ache and a headache.” And I said, “Oh my God, is she pregnant?”

And he goes, “Mother, don’t put that out there.” And I said, “Sterling, wait, I have to call you back. I have to go put my house on sale so I can move closer to you. I’ll be right back.”

Andrea Marie: She’s got the flu, stop

Donna Lee: I told 10 people, “She’s pregnant.” “Guess what?”

Andrea Marie: That’s hilarious. I was gone on Mother’s Day when my kids were young one time. Like, we went, all the moms in our little group went to Arizona and we were on a pontoon boat and you know, just having a little girls weekend. And I felt a little bit guilty, but it was so relaxing. It was really, it was like the kids were young and it just seems funny that I wasn’t even there for Mother’s Day. I’m like, “See ya. This is actually better.”

Stephanie McHugh: It’s so hard. You know, Donna, one of my daughter’s birthdays, sometimes it lands on Mother’s Day. Does your birthday ever land on Mother’s Day?

Donna Lee: Really close. My birthday and my mom’s birthday is May 15th, then Mother’s Day is always the Sunday before, so sometimes it’s a, you know, day or two close.

This year it’s May 10th, but it’s just close enough for my dad. Very, you know, he always looks so satisfied that he only had to get the one gift.

Andrea Marie: Isn’t that true? That’s so sad. You, no, I’m like, “No, hey, you combine them.”

Donna Lee: No, he was really like, he’s like, “Daughter’s birthday, wife’s birthday, Mother’s Day, boom.” One lunch. One.

Stephanie McHugh: Yeah. Cause my mom’s birthday is the 17th, and my daughter’s birthday is the 8th. And then both girls were in soccer, and it always seems like April is just so So many soccer games were moved to May. So it’s soccer games, birthdays, Mother’s Day. It fell down the list oh, yeah.

Andrea Marie: I know. Yeah.

Stephanie McHugh: So much.

Why May is a rough month for moms

Andrea Marie: May is a rough month. We had Ultimate Frisbee tournaments that would happen when the boys were in high school, and they would have them on Mother’s Day. They can’t, you know, they can’t plan around everything, and there’s only so many days that they can have them anyway. So I’d be out there at 7:30 AM or whatever it was. It was early.

It was like we’d have to get them to the fields, you know, on a Mother’s Day. And, like, sometimes I think that there was someone, and I think it was probably a mom, organized some sort of little, like, you know, spread of mimosas and muffins and stuff like that, so it felt a little bit better. But I’m not gonna sit there and chug mimosas at, you know, at 7:30 in the morning. I don’t know, it’s just not my thing. I need to get a nap.

Stephanie McHugh: That would a better story.

Donna Lee: Oh. But yeah, it was definitely a mom who organized that for sure. I don’t see a dad.

Andrea Marie: I feel like the dad might have gotten credit though.

And May is a tough, it’s so busy, right? It’s so busy with stuff.

Stephanie McHugh: It’s right underneath December. It is a close, just crazy month. Yeah ’cause graduations, you always have family members or friends or someone, it seems like, who’s graduating from high school or college. My brother has two twin girls, that are, I think, 21, 22, and a son who just finished his first year of college in Kansas, and all three of them are moving in May.

One’s moving from Greeley to Oklahoma City. One’s going from Kansas back home. And then another one’s just moving to a different apartment in the Denver metro area. But they are… It’s just.

Andrea Marie: That sounds terrible.

Stephanie McHugh: Gonna be a brutal May, yeah.

Andrea Marie: Well, last year we had a bunch of shows around Mother’s Day, and we’ve tried this the last two years. We did, we kinda had a lot of shows going on. And then we had some that were actually on Mother’s Day. But then I realized that that was meaning that we had to have the comedians.

And you’re doing that this year, Donna, is traveling or, you know, gonna be gone for Mother’s Day for a show. The shows that were on Mother’s Day didn’t do well, I think, last year because it was, I mean, I think it’s just too much going on. You know?

It’s more of a brunch thing maybe. I don’t know.

Stephanie McHugh: They had the mimosas at 10 in the morning.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, then you’re tired.

Stephanie McHugh: Yeah.

Donna Lee: That’s right.

Stephanie McHugh: Bedtime At 8:00.

Andrea Marie: They’re still looking for Macaroni Grill.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, we’re on a Mother’s Day show at 7:00 PM, and I asked the producer if maybe we should do, like, a 4:00 PM or 2:00 PM. You know, that kind of thing. But he’s like, “No, we’re doing it at 7:00 PM.” I was like, “All right. We’ll see what happens.”

It’s a Sunday. Right. We’ll see. The guy’s a single guy with no kids, so I’m like, “Okay, well, I… let’s say a prayer.” But it’ll be fun. Yeah, right. I know sometimes they’re not necessarily realizing.

Stephanie McHugh: ​My niece went to Ireland and just got back and got me a shirt, Sean’s Bar. It’s the oldest bar in Ireland.

Andrea Marie: Oh, That’s awesome. 900 AD. Wow.

Stephanie McHugh: AD. Yeah.

Donna Lee: my gosh.

Andrea Marie: Was it made out of hay or what?

Stephanie McHugh: I know. I am also her oldest aunt. Coincidence? I don’t know, but yeah.

Andrea Marie: That’s awesome. That’s awesome. Doesn’t it, for the Irish people?

So do you guys have any memories of Mother’s Day with your own moms? Like, well, Donna has the yeah, you guys would always try and do something, but any, any weird or wild gifts that you would give them?

Discovering 20 years of unopened crystal gifts

Donna Lee: My mom was not a bougie person, but she acted. She identified as bougie, but she came from a very poor upbringing in a Thai village. So when she moved here, though, my dad kind of taught her about nicer things. So every year for Mother’s Day/ birthday, I would give her a gift.

Like, you know, I’d try to think of something nice, and I’d… You know, when I was 16, I started working, so I’d get her, you know, i’d have a job and get her some stuff. And she loved crystal. Oh. Just, crystal vases or crystal anything. Pens and dishes.

So every year I’d get her a little piece of crystal from somewhere, and usually from an outlet shop and, you know, something cheaper but looked fancy.

And then one year, I was in my senior year of college. I came home, and I was looking in the kitchen, or the dining room for something. There were some drawers underneath the china cabinet, and I was looking for an empty box. And my mom said, “Oh, you find empty box wherever.” And so I went there and I opened it, and it was, I’m not kidding, 20 years of gifts that I’d given her still in the boxes.

Of all these crystal vases and bowls and hummingbirds and butterfly, everything that I’d given her. And they were she, like opened it, and she put it back in the box, and she put it into storage.

And I was so hurt. And I was like, “Oh my God, Mom. I’ve been giving you all these And she goes, Donna I not like anything you give me, so I put it there.” I swear on my life it was two decades.

Stephanie McHugh: She didn’t get rid of it though.

Donna Lee: Yeah, she didn’t get rid of it.

Stephanie McHugh: She kept it in a closet.

Andrea Marie: I didn’t the boxes, and I was so hurt. Oh, my gosh, I was like devastated. Yeah. “Everything you give me, I not like.” And I was like, oh my.

And I was like, “But you steal spoons.” She stole a spoon from every restaurant we ever went to my entire life, and we had like 200 spoons in a drawer when she passed away.

I remember finding these spoons. I was like, “Oh, but you’ll take spoons from all yeah, yeah, yeah, but you didn’t like any of crystal vases I gave you? Yeah, no, right. Oh my God.

That is hilarious. That is hilarious story.

Stephanie McHugh: All right, that reminds me, my grandma, my mom, and her sister got their mom what they thought was the most beautiful perfume. It was like a big bottle, and it had a really pretty top. But, you know, it was cheap.

Andrea Marie: Right.

Stephanie McHugh: They caught her pouring it down the toilet in the bathroom, and they were

just like so shocked that she would get rid of that beautiful.

Donna Lee: Oh, no.

Stephanie McHugh: I just always pictured like grape Kool-Aid smell and look to it, you know? It just… but yeah.

The ironing board gift that came from the heart

Andrea Marie: So funny, so funny. Yeah. My mom liked to iron, and she loved ironing. Which I did not inherit one iota of that. But she would iron everything. She would… I would come home and she would, like, iron my sweatpants and, you know, workout clothes.

I’m like, “Mom, no, you don’t need to iron that.” But she just loved it. And so one year I noticed that the ironing pad was worn out, and I didn’t really know how irons worked, you know, ironing boards worked. And so I went to the Ace Hardware in town, I think I was, like, 11, and it was about a mile away from my house, and I found an iron, ironing board there.

I bought it with my own money, and I carried it home through the town. Like a mile to get my mom. And then you know, I gave it to her, and I think the ironing board I bought was probably a worse board, but all she needed was really the pad. You know?

Like that coulda, that woulda been the gift to give her, but I bought her a whole new board that was probably a cheaper model.

Donna Lee: Aw.

Andrea Marie: But I remember hauling it, and I’d have to rest, and then I’d haul, you know.

Donna Lee: Oh.

Stephanie McHugh: I wonder how many people drove by and go, “Is that a girl with an ironing board?”

Andrea Marie: I know.

Stephanie McHugh: Is she trying to run away from home? ‘Cause she’s not doing a good job.

Andrea Marie: I know.

Stephanie McHugh: Not the first thing you’d need.

Donna Lee: Oh, that’s hilarious. That’s so sweet. What did your mom say when came home with the ironing board?

board She was surprised. She was like really surprised. And I think it’s one of those things where, you know, I think that’s why these days we’re like send people the exact link of what we want because, you know, it wasn’t exactly something she really needed or whatever.

Andrea Marie: It was probably, you know, not exactly what she was thinking of for a gift. You know, a piece of domestic household, you know, whatever. It’s like giving the vacuum cleaner to the wife for Christmas.

Stephanie McHugh: Andrea, you and I kind of are the same way. Like, I think of something practical.

Andrea Marie: I am so practical.

Stephanie McHugh: For a birthday. I don’t ever think of things like that, so.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, like the crystal, like the beautiful crystal.

Yeah. I’m just like what is useful?

Donna Lee: My husband’s family, it makes me crazy to this day. For Mother’s Day, birthdays, Christmas, any holiday, my husband and his family, they give each other, I swear on my life, a $50 gift card.

Stephanie McHugh: Oh.

Donna Lee: Why do we do this? Everybody gets a $50 gift card, and they just cancel each other out for every holiday. it makes me nuts. Every birthday, every Mother’s Day, we’re all just giving each other a $50 gift card with a card.

I don’t believe in cards ’cause I think it’s a waste of money and trees, and so we just have the $50 gift card. I’m like, “there’s just something that I need to say to your family.”

Everyone just gets around, trades the cards, whoop, we’re done. And 99% of the time it’s a HomeGoods gift card to everybody back forth.

Stephanie McHugh: I was gonna say, yeah, everybody, it would suck if you were the one with like, the Macaroni Grill gift card that’s Macaroni Grill. You know.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, it’s gone out.

Stephanie McHugh: Gonna be able to use this? Everybody else got the Amazon gift card. You know, or something. You’re right, yeah.

Donna Lee: Yeah. No, it’s so dumb. I’m like, “There’s something wrong your whole family.”

A chaotic duct-taped gift card tradition

Stephanie McHugh: Yeah. Christmas time, we take a gift card, like a $100 gift card, somebody goes and buys it, and then we wrap it up in duct tape so it’s like this thick, and then we, you take two dice and we all stand around in a circle.

So you start ripping off the duct tape, and everybody’s rolling the dice. And I can’t remember, I think if you get the number that the previous person that, who’s ripping it open gets, then you get the gift card, and then you start ripping off the duct tape. And so it’s a competitive.

Donna Lee: Wow

Stephanie McHugh: A competitive way to celebrate the Lord coming the world.

Andrea Marie: That’s like, I think the weirdest tradition I’ve ever heard.

heard

Stephanie McHugh: know. Yeah, and whoever gets to the gift card wins the card.

Andrea Marie: Gets it.

Stephanie McHugh: Yeah.

Donna Lee: Oh, wow. That’s funny.

Stephanie McHugh: So we do that too. Yeah I heard, I love this podcast. It’s a political podcast. And I’ve noticed like in the past six months it seems like more and more YouTube channels have, they have sponsors like, “This today’s episode was brought to you by…” And they.

Andrea Marie: A matter of fact, we are looking for sponsors for Moms Unhinged podcast. So If Duck Tape wants to sponsor us.

Donna Lee: Macaroni Grill.

Andrea Marie: Macaroni Grill.

Stephanie McHugh: Ironing boards, yeah.

Andrea Marie: So we get to pick and choose what we want. We all have to hold

our

Stephanie McHugh: They always get sponsors, so they were talking about, for Mother’s Day, you get the picture frame that circles all the pictures.

And they were saying, “It’s a great gift for Mom. All you have to do is download 100 pictures of the family and one tasteful nude.”

Andrea Marie: It’s roulette.

Stephanie McHugh: And oh my gosh, yeah. I just, every sponsorship they do, they put something just kinda inappropriate in there, I’m here for it. Yeah. We would do that too, if you are looking for sponsorship.

Andrea Marie: Do it. Yeah.

Stephanie McHugh: Yeah.

Donna Lee: We’ll do a tasteful nude.

Andrea Marie: Any sponsor who comes on the show will get a very humorous clip of us.

Stephanie McHugh: Yes.

Andrea Marie: Doing something with it.

Stephanie McHugh: Cause I listen to those ads really closely. I wanna hear what they’re gonna say, then I’m like, “Wow, are they okay with that? I guess so.” Yeah.

Donna Lee: I never think to listen to the sponsor. Now I’m gonna wanna listen to sponsors on yeah.

Stephanie McHugh: For certain people, but I love it how some people are really getting creative with it. They’ll throw in… Yeah.

Andrea Marie: You know, I’m sure everybody just gets used to hitting that 15-second button, just.

Stephanie McHugh: Exactly.

Andrea Marie: But yeah,

Donna Lee: Yes. Yeah, that’s hilarious. My dad used to give the same gift for Christmas when he was alive. He would take a toilet paper, one roll of toilet paper, wrap it in like a shoebox and put pretty Christmas wrapping paper around it, and then get a bigger box and wrap it in a bigger box and a bigger… and he would like six boxes later.

And every year I knew what was coming ’cause it was the biggest box in the room, and it was always the one roll of toilet paper. And he thought he was so funny, and he’d smoke his cigarette.

He smoked three packs a day. He’d smoke his cigarette and he goes guess you didn’t, you didn’t guess that was gonna happen this year, and he keeps smoking.

I’m like, “Dad, every year and still, it’s a lot.” And then he would walk around the corner and pull the big giant 24-pack “This is really your gift. Everybody needs toilet paper.” I’m like, “You’re such a dad.”

Andrea Marie: Oh my god, that’s so funny.

Donna Lee: Yeah, he thought he was so cute. That’s actually kind of a interesting thing. Do you remember your dads ever giving your mom a Mother’s Day gift?

No, my dad always.

Andrea Marie: My dad never did.

Donna Lee: Yeah, he said, “She’s not my mom.” He would always say that. Yeah, see.

Stephanie McHugh: No, my dad would, think. I can’t remember, honestly. I remember going to pick out things with Dad, and I feel like he did. I can’t remember now if it was their anniversary or Mother’s Day, but I know he would do stuff.

Donna Lee: That’s sweet, yeah. I tell my.

Stephanie McHugh: But my parents were very much, it’s very sweet. They had chemistry. Like before microwaves, they would heat up Vaseline Intensive Care lotion in a, on the stove, like in water, so Dad would give Mom a massage.

Donna Lee: Oh, I didn’t know where that was going.

Andrea Marie: I know, right? I know. I was like.

Stephanie McHugh: I don’t where it all went to. I’m sharing this. I am not gonna share this podcast with my mom. My mom is always like, “You should let me know what podcast you’re on.” And I’m always.

like,

Donna Lee: No.

Stephanie McHugh: “I’m never gonna let my mom know.” But it was very yeah, they always… I’m sure they… yeah.

Donna Lee: Oh, wow. That’s… so sweet.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Yeah.

Donna Lee: I mean, borderline sexual, but very sweet.

Stephanie McHugh: I mean, we didn’t see where it led to, but that was the part, yeah, that was in front of us. Yeah.

Andrea Marie: A Little massage for Mother’s Day. That sounds like a good gift, yeah.

Stephanie McHugh: Tuesday or whatever. Yeah.

Andrea Marie: That’s so funny.

Oh, I gotta remember that one.

Stephanie McHugh: No.

Andrea Marie: It’s exciting. Oh my gosh. Well, you guys, this has been so much fun. Love like talking about just memories of Mother’s Day, ’cause it just, you know, it’s… I feel like things are slipping out of my memory even, you know, with when I was a kid and also even when my kids were young. I’m like, “Oh yeah, that’s, that happened.”

So thank you both, and happy Mother’s Day to both of you and all of our listeners out there who are mothers or a mother figure in someone’s lives. I feel like we’re all mothering somehow.

Donna Lee: Somebody.

Andrea Marie: So yeah. Thank you guys so much.

Stephanie McHugh: Good to see you. Bye.

Donna Lee: Bye.

Andrea Marie: Thanks for listening and make sure you subscribe, share, and follow us on the socials to get more comedy clips.

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Founder and Comedian

Andrea Marie is an international speaker and comedian.  She has performed at venues such as Comedy Works, The Denver Improv, Comedy Festivals in Boston, Chicago, World Series of Comedy in Las Vegas and produces her own show called Moms Unhinged.  She wrote a book about Facebook and is a mother of 2 boys giving her an endless source of material. Follow her on Instagram @AndreaMarieComedy

Headshot of Comedian Stephanie McHugh standing in front of a brick wall

Headliner

Stephanie McHugh brings wit and charm to the Denver comedy scene, where she has been a regular for over 15 years. She was on Nick at Nite’s TV Show “America’s Funniest Mom” which won her praise from celebrity judge Rosanne Barr. Stephanie is currently part of the comedic trio MentalPause! that has performed at Comedy Works while laughing off the middle ages! Follow her on Instagram @stephcomedy

"Donna Lee" Lamendola standup comedian on moms unhinged

Donna Lee started her stand up comedy career in 2006 as a Finalist on the TV show “Search For Funniest Mom in America” on Nick@Nite with host Katey Segal and is now a busy working comedian again after convincing her three adult sons to leave the house and teaching her husband to make his own dinner. Donna Lee is featured on “The Armor Men’s Health Show” radio program and podcast as co-host and producer and “The Ryan Wayne Salon Podcast” also as co-host and producer. She has been fortunate enough to work with her absolute favorite comedians including Leanne Morgan, Jo Koy, DL Hughley, Bill Engvall and many more. Follow her on Instagram @donnaleecomedy

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