For Motherless Daughters only...

[Patricia]

My prayers are with you. It was so good to read these posts and think about how many of us share the same thoughts about our moms. My mom will be gone 10 years in July. She died of cancer, like so many of your moms, just 10 weeks after my dad died of cancer. It was such a shock and such a confusing time, I am not sure I have been able to really absorb it yet. I have emotions that run the gamut most of the time. This year my son will receive his First Holy Communion and my daughters are both graduating (one 8th grade, one HS). I know that I am feeling my mom's loss more than ever right now. She would have been so proud of my girls (never met my son). She doted on them and to see them become young women would have brought her such joy. I try to appease myself in knowing she does see them, but mostly it's just a way to get through the day. I still very much long for her and her love. I hate, hate, hate, Mother's Day and work very hard to act like I enjoy it for my kids. My heart is breaking each moment of the day and I feel such jealousy of those who are blessed with their moms. I feel so much anger at those who do not appreciate their mothers and treat them as less than the gold they are.

I wish you peace in your heart at this difficult time.

 

[Lucky4me]

My Mom died of breast/bone cancer 16 &1/2 years ago.
I understand completely.

 

[pokiemomo181]

On march 26th my mom will have been dead for 7 years. I cared for her for the last few years of her life. My dad has been dead for over 30 years. I know where you are coming from, and what you are feeling. Hope tomorrow is a better day for you.


Pokie

 

[momof3disneyholics]

My father died when I was 18, he had a massive heart attack, my mother remarried 2 years after he died and her and my stepfather were killed in a car accident when I was 22. My oldest was 19 mos old. Let me just say that my husband's parents are not in the picture because they don't want to be.
I think I miss my parents most for my kids. One of my sons looks so much like my father it is scary. I have to do a double take when I look at him sometimes. I know how much my mother loved my oldest and it pains me that she can't watch him grow now or that he can't feel her love or even remember who she was. My mother used to tell me about how badly she wanted a daughter when she was pregnant with me and she was so happy when I was born. I look at my daughter and she is petite like my mother was and I think about how much my mother would have loved her too. I hate hearing when my friends talk about what their mothers do for their kids. The hurt just goes so deep that my kids can't have that.
Thanks for this thread, sometimes I feel so alone in my feelings.

 

[Pooh93]

{{HUGS}} to all. My mother died at the age of 48 (May 26, 1987) from the side effects of juvenile diabetes. She had never known my dh or dd's. I feel cheated for myself and them at times. My mother had a great sense of humor, quick wit and loved to laugh. I see those qualities in my youngest dd. Perhaps, she is indeed living on.

 

[Pooh93]

{{HUGS}} to all. My mother died at the age of 48 (May 26, 1987) from the side effects of juvenile diabetes. She had never known my dh or dd's. I feel cheated for myself and them at times. My mother had a great sense of humor, quick wit and loved to laugh. I see those qualities in my youngest dd. Perhaps, she is indeed living on.