Happy birthday Mum….....wherever you are

[Redtartanlass]

I just want to wish a Happy Birthday to my beautiful, strong and brave mum who died 11 years ago. I just want to say, I hope you can see your wonderful grandkids who never got to meet you and laugh with you and be swathed in your amazing presence.
I just hope soooo much that you know that I graduated a few months after you died. I wish you can see what a success my wee brother and I have made of our lives because of you and the lessons you taught us and the love you gave us.
I know you were worried about leaving me, and I?ll never forget how just one week before you died, you literally pulled yourself out of your death bed to give me some cough medicine because I was coughing in my bed!!
I wish at times like this that I had religion, so that I could believe you are near.
I love you mum and I miss you.
Happy Birthday.

redtartan lovely tribute to your wonderful mother. I know how you feel, I lost my fabulous mum in May last year and am dreading her birthday on Valentines day. Hopefully DH will forget Valentines day like he normally does as I just want to think of my mum that day.

I'm a 'believer' and I like to think my mum (and dad) are up there looking down on me and my children. My gorgeous little boy will be 1 on Monday but sadly mum didn't meet him as he was born abroad and she died 2 weeks before I was due to return to the UK for 3 months to spend lots of time with her I like to think however that she is watching him.
Before she died she'd planned his baptism in her local church so we went ahead with it 3 weeks after her funeral which was very very hard but it was a tribute to her we snuck in an extra name at his baptism in her memory. (weird irish catholic thing, she took the name of a male saint as her middle name when she did her confirmation)

pavlov so very sorry about the loss of your mother. Will be thinking of you and others who have suffered recent (and not so recent) losses

OMG I forgot your birthday..... but I haven't forgotten you.

Happy Belated Birthday Mum and to all the other posters mums.