When we lose our mums...
IT goes without saying mums are the ones who teach us love and care...and dads are there to show u discipline. Some do both, Id like to say I had that balance although my dad was an a** I respected both for what to be and not to be.When I lost my dad I didn't care, never loved him, but my mum was the biggest shock. As kids,teenagers and into our 30 we don't see them as passing, so take things for granted.....don't !. ,
I was going through some old stuff and found the speech I wrote for her funeral...thought I'd share.
Jeremy clarksons mum invented Paddington bear
Mike nesbit mum from the monkees invented tipex
My mum ? She invented the single finger twix, the two bar kit Kat and an apple that looks like a potato
You see my mum her loved food, and she loved mine to. How my mum discovered these new inventions was simple. When I started my first job at 15 she made me packed lunches.. And as she was placing the sandwiches and 2 bar twix into my pack, she would come over all peckish, and one finger of twix was swiftly eaten before the lid was closed.
As time went on two bars from a 4 bar kit Kat would be found, some days just bread and butter..no filling ! When I asked mum she'd say..oh did I forget to put filling in, how we laughed, and so did my work collueges.
Every day they would wait to see me open my box. Mum got wind of this and one day there was bite marks in my sarnies and another day just a potato , nothing else.
But the real reason for this was mum was hungry, dad had left us and no support, sometimes she had no money for the filing of my sandwiches, yet hid it from me and made a joke of it. I was earning £21 a week then and gave her all my money.
I've dreaded this day all my life, none of us here realise the huge void that has been left in front of us all with mums passing. She suffered so much yet she never ever complained , hid her pain from us all, ever the mother trying to protect us all.
Mum would always asked me if I took sugar in my tea, for over thirty years, yes mum I take one...what I would give now to be at mums house, her asking me if i took sugar, something that irritated me,but something I will never hear from her again.
I know time is a healer but I also know we will be without our rock to guide us, comfort, our world was so rich with her around, nothing can ever replace that.
.....I cried the whole time I read that out...as did most listening..as did I writing it today.
My message is very simple...don't take the ones you love for granted....if you live far..go see them...call them every week...when they are gone...they are gone.
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Love the blog. I hope I can guide, comfort and protect my kids always.
Will go see my parents this afternoon.
Nice to see you back.
I'm nearly sixty now, lost my Mum when I was 39..
I recall saying that I felt like I was lost at sea, bobbing around in the ocean without a lifebuoy.
My daughter is now 39 and our beautiful relationship, like mine with my Mum, has brought it all into perspective, she would be set adrift also if we were to part forever.
I tell her I love her often, and she, me.
We were lucky to have such lovely ladies in our lives eh
They are still here, by our sides and in our hearts
Lost my mother last year but age had played a cruel trick, she had left us a few years earlier.
I lost my mom when I was 24 think of her often.
Usually our moms are the ones we often run to with boo boos etc.
My message is very simple...don't take the ones you love for granted....if you live far..go see them...call them every week...when they are gone...they are gone.
I always made a point to let my loved ones know that I loved them and glad that they were in my life.
I was the same about my parents But cant turn clock back now I think its like that saying cant put old head on young shoulders. Your parents probably thought the same when theirs past.
Funeral will be next thursday...hence my flying out tomorrow with my oldest son...
We were not so close...due to the distance....but so glad i got to visit him 2 months ago with my daughter. I said to him.....i would now come over more frequently....as my children are more independent...well, its too late now. There was a lovely obituary written about him in the Bournemouth Echo...he was a very active man...very involved with the town.....i will miss him.....
So sorry to hear that Caly
take care, and mind yourself tomorrow.
Couldn't get back for my father's funeral - I'd just moved to the UK and hadn't a bean, hadn't even qualified for a credit card at that point. Really glad for you that you saw him so recently.
Ian, my comment earlier, I wasn't being aggressive. Just a little taken aback, because you've been pretty offhand about women. I see you differently now.
On your story, I can relate so much about the lunch and the fact that I only had one pair of shoes for a whole year in High School and 2 pairs of uniform. I was so contented with just rice and salt and sometimes with egg as my mom raised so many chickens. But that was enough and never complained.
If you felt hurt then you have a heart, it only means that youre human
Grow with it. Dont let your pain break you.
But to be honest i dont think time heal all wounds and not all loss can be replace in life. But we should grow from it.
If you feel your mother loves you, then pass her love to another, do the love and kindness she did for you to others, make her kindness and good deeds live in you and others even though shes not here anymore
Dont do it for you, do it for her.
I love my parents too. Hope you are feeling okay.