(Family Features) - Celebrate Mother's Day with a fun gathering that gets your entire family together -brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews - and honors every mom. Family too far away? Gather your closest friends and their families and toast all moms present. Host a breakfast or brunch that's easy for the kids help with in a big way.

Since breakfast in bed is a time-honored cliché to celebrate Mother's Day, make it a breakfast-fest by serving pancakes sprinkled with chocolate mini morsels. Perfect for any choc-o-holic mom, these strawberry-topped pancakes are a hit with both young and young at heart. And they're easy enough for kids to make and serve.

Planning will help make Mother's Day memories everyone will cherish:

• Have kids use email to make invitations quick and easy.
• Kids can design a scrapbook of their favorite memories of Mom - photos, souvenirs, funny things that she says.
• Set the table with bright colors; include a little potted flowering plant, such as an African violet, at each place setting for moms.
• Serve a fruit salad to enjoy while waiting for the junior chefs to deliver pancakes hot from the griddle.
• Have a camera handy to document the celebration.
• Let moms sit and relax over a cup of coffee while everyone else cleans up!

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