
If you are looking for some last-minute gift ideas for Mother’s Day, here you go! Since it’s the Wednesday before Mother’s Day, almost everything here is what you can get from Amazon Prime or at Walmart, which are probably the easiest retailers for most of you out there to access and get the product before the big day. The one thing in my list below that is not at Amazon or Walmart is shipped from Paola Brown’s company in Idaho. So if you order it today it will come after Mother’s Day, but you could write down a note on a pretty piece of paper explaining that a totally wonderful magical surprise will be coming soon. For the rest, order on amazon today or hop on over to your nearest Walmart.

An electric teakettle. I don’t know how I survived mom life before I had one of these! I got a Pioneer Woman version about 9 years ago and have loved it. It’s just so great to have a way to get water super-hot, super fast. I am one of the rare people who doesn’t like ice water. First thing in the morning I enjoy drinking some warm water to help me wake up. I make it by taking boiling hot water from the teakettle, filling my Mason jar water bottle half-way up, then topping it off with water from the fridge water dispenser. That’s the perfect temperature for me. In winter I might make it warmer. It’s fun to add stevia and lemon juice, and a little mineral salt, or to make hot cocoa with stevia and cacoa powder, but I have to limit my stevia, so I don’t drink those every day. I also like to use the teakettle to get boiling hot water to pour over any frozen food in a bowl that I want to thaw when fixing dinner. I also use this to make herbal tea, especially when someone has a sore throat so I can make Throat Coat tea.

(If you want to be super fancy and can afford it, get this one shown above. It’s a lot more expensive and isn’t available in Prime, so you’d have to write a coupon saying it’s on its way, but it might be worth the wait for the mom in your life, especially if she’s into herbal tea. It has an inner container where you can insert the tea material to steep. It also has preset temperatures and a 30-minute keep warm function.)

Everand Audiobook and Ebook Subscription. Everyone, unless they’ve been living in a cave, knows about Audible, so I’m mentioning everand.com instead. I love it for all the reasons here. I’ve had both subscriptions at times and enjoy both for different reasons. I don’t like that Audible just offers me one book a month, whereas Everand gives me unlimited access to a TON of ebooks and audiobooks for about the same price. Certain bestsellers are only available on Audible not Everand though, but I usually can then find the bestseller book from my library to borrow in Libby. Everand has a ton of homeschooling mom favorites, like the LIttle House books, Little Britches books, Jim Weiss stories, Your Story Hour books, The Story of the World, and so much more. You can download the books, and they are yours forever.
Anything Pioneer Woman: bedding, kitchenware, clothing, jewelry, bags, tablecloth, dishcloths, bath towels, rugs, and more, even furniture! Many senior citizen moms probably haven’t updated their bed linens, kitchen towels, bath towels, table lamp, or rugs in decades. A fresh version of any of these would probably be well-appreciated. They are just all so beautiful! I have the bath towel below and love it, it’s soft, thick and gorgeous.


Mason Jar lids with straws. If your crunchy-mom mother likes to drink from glass instead of plastic for her everyday water bottle, she probably already uses Mason jars. These pretty lids in rose gold with holes for straws turn the Mason jar into an easily-sipped-from water bottle. Years ago, one of my sons gave me a set of Mason jar lids with straw holes and I still have the lids and use them every day. He really nailed the gift that year!

Beautifully Embroidered Cover Journal from Rifle Paper Co. I love just about everything from Rifle Paper, designed by artist Anna Bond. I’ve noticed some of their products at the BYU Museum of Art gift shop. This journal is expensive for a journal, at $38, but the beauty makes it totally worth it! It’s 400 pages with an exquisitely gorgeous cover, ribbon bookmark, and lie-flat binding. If you have a mom who loves to journal or take notes, and loves floral patterns, she will probably love this! It comes in 4 designs. I can’t decide which one is my favorite.

Weighted Blanket. If your mom has sleep troubles, a weighted blanket might help. Deep sleep is one of the best gifts a mom can get!
Massage Gun. If you don’t want to shell out nearly $150 for the top-of-the-line TheraGun shown above, cheaper guns exist. The LifePro brand seems to be a reasonable cheaper alternative. I have that one and so far it’s worked well. It has about 6 different attachments. Just last night I used it to knead a knotty muscle in my neck and today I feel so much better.

Julia Rothman Collection of Anatomy Books about farm, nature, and food. These are such fun books to look at, for all ages! For all the nature loving and wannabe homestead moms out there. In our increasingly urbanized world, this knowledge is becoming lost! I’m grateful for the author creating these works, inspired by visits to her husband’s family farm. I love to read a few pages a day for our homeschool morning time.


Watercolor Kit. For mom to create beauty, either with a nature journal or other art.

Pioneer Woman Air Fryer. The model above is the newer version. I have the floral patterned one below. I love this for so many reasons. My children gave it to me for my birthday years ago, and I use it every day. I don’t use a microwave, because of what Sally Fallon Morrell has said about them. I use this for so many things I would use a microwave for. I can pop in burger patties or bacon and cook them in 10 minutes without tending to it or worrying that they will burn. I line it with unbleached parchment paper, both under and top of the inner tray to minimize the mess. Then after cooking, I dispose of those and can pop the bottom drawer, and the tray insert into the dishwasher for easy cleaning. So awesome! (I don’t know if the bottom drawer of the model above is dishwasher-safe, probably not, what with the wooden handle.)
Paola Brown’s Homeopathy Family Journal. I gave this to myself for Mother’s Day a few years ago. Yes, it’s ok to give gifts to yourself! It is so wonderful!!!! As a budding Momeopath (trademark of Paola Brown), I keep track of the homeopathic medicines I give my family and what the results are. This journal is perfect for that as it has a section for 8 family members, beautiful illustrations of materials that are used in homeopathic medicine, and much more! Go here to read more about it and buy it!


Any of the Books here for reading for mom to read for pure pleasure. Combine a book with Everand for a most wonderful bibliophilic gift!
A Pretty Board Game That Also Challenges the Mind. See my choices for mom here.
If you want more holistic mom Mother’s Day gift ideas, go here, and wrap a pretty note saying it’s on the way if the delivery is after Mother’s Day.
If you want homemade ideas, go here, the same link as just above, but scroll way down to see the homemade ideas.
If you want some picture book ideas for Mother’s Day go here.
If you’d like some stories about the power of mothers, go to my Family Devotionals Ebook here, under the May section.