I wish my Mum a Happy Mother’s Day. Thanks for everything Mum 
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It’s a fairly bittersweet day for many of us I think.
We visited Mrs AC’s mother earlier but so many of these things feel too commercial/contrived. Listening in the car this afternoon Classic FM kept going on about it, but a few presenters poignantly pointed out their mother had passed
Mrs AC reflected she’d never had a Mother’s Day herself when she was not rushing around seeing her mother or both hers and mine before my mum passed some years ago.
My mum died when I was 10, so it’s a strange day for me. Still, my two lovely sons did the business with Mrs HH today, taking her out for lunch and giving her a nice box of chocs. Mrs HH’s mum died at 67, which was 27 years ago now. So it’s odd when people of our age talk about still having parents.
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Very sorry to hear your mother died when you were quite young HH. My father’s mother died during his teens so I never met her.
Sounds like a lovely family day with Mrs HH and your sons, hope you have many more.
Never knew my mother, she gave me up before I was two, pregnant by someone else, all a bit rubbish in the late 1950’s. Traced her in later life, via the internet, and on the phone she was unpleasant, told me that I was never meant to know, and obviously rewrote history in her own mind. I did it because I didn’t want a way over 80 year old to kick the bucket, not knowing what happened to her first born. I’m glad I did it, clearing the air!, but it did leave me feeling rather let down. Crap families. Stepmother was okay, until her own kids came, and then I was ignored.
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It’s weird here, my Mum 94 this June is thriving, living independently and just great to see her today. But for my daughters losing their Mum when she was only 62 it must be so tough. And after 8 years I still can’t rationalise losing her.
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Gosh that’s all very stressful for you. Sorry to hear that and I’m glad you turned out a nice person regardless.
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Thank you, it’s very strange. It explains the reason for me to please/provide for anyone that I was involved with in my early twenties, not understanding why I was a bit needy, before I started to understand. Very weird what being rejected turns into throughout the formative years.
I think that I am way over it all now, but at times, something arises that gives me an unpleasant memory.
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Some of us celebrate Mother’s Day at different times. My mom passed at 97, five years ago. She was an Icon in the LGBT community. In her lifetime, she raised 1.4 million for the AIDS Walk in NYC. She was in two movies about parents of LGBT kids. . She has an interview in the library of congress about me coming out. She was a surrogate support person for so many whose family rejected them for being LGBTQ. So many memories. So many funny stories. A liberal user of the F word. She left her mark. Stories about her and Phil Donahue, Robin Williams to name but a few. An amazing and uproariously funny public speaker
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Your post crossed with mine, yeah I lost my wife way too early, but none of us have had to cope with a situation like yours.
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It seems to have got a bit grim, apologies.
Absolutely no apologies necessary. Sometimes it can be good to put things like that into words, and here you will have an audience likely to be empathetic, while also being complete strangers to you. In addition, posting something like that potentially could help someone else in a similar or parallel situation.
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No it’s good to talk, as they say. My 11 month old granddaughter waving at me on WhatsApp cheered me up as well!
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This Mother’s Day would have been her 100 birthday 
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Sometimes Mother’s Day coincides with the passing of my wife.
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