Coping with Mothering Sunday without your mum

[Eddas]

Wasn't sure if I should post this or where to put it, but wanted to start a thread about Mothering sunday and your own mum not being alive anymore.

Now I have 2 dc I feel guilty about being sad it's mothering sunday but I miss my mum so much the thought of sunday makes me

Mum died 4 1/2 years ago now. I still think about her everyday. I wish she'd met dc's she'd have loved them so much

I will be putting a card in the crematorium for her and buying flowers to keep here at home.

morning everyone I hope today is filled with happiness for all of you I am going to try to enjoy the day with my dc and think happily of mum. I know she would hate me to be sad on Mothers day.

I have some lovely tulips in my house and they are for mum I have told dd why there are flowers and she said maybe your mum will come round one day and pick them up and take them to her house Bless her

Thinking of you all. Sending lots of happy vibes

Am not feeling too bad because my fantastic children and dh have been making me feel very special today . Mum didn't like fresh flowers so I have made her a bouquet with artificial flowers and ribbon and taken it to her at the cemetery, which incidently was absolutely packed! However, it wasn't exactly conducive to quiet reflection so will go back tomorrow I think.
Hope everyone else is not feeling too bad today.

It does get a bit easier with time, although I still always feel sad on Mother's Day however great the DCs have been. My mother died 25 years ago, when I was 16 - I still miss her and wish she had met her grandchildren. It's not nearly as painful as it used to be - for some of you it's still so recent and my heart goes out to you.

Yes, the cemetries were full, not a lot of space for quiet reflection today.....

Oh hassled 16 is horridly young.......

I had a text from my little brother saying Happy Mother's Day this morning (he was only 23 when she died), I think he just needed to say it to someone made me cry.........

but then I cheered up because dd2 made me scrambled eggs on toast all by herself and set the table etc what an angel

(dd1 is, of course, a teenager so had to be dragged down the stairs in her pj's to eat with us )