Give a memory of your mom

[CF'er]

My mom is gone now and I miss her daily. One of the best things she did for me was encourage me to do whatever I wanted to do. I have health issues and she never held me back. That must have been hard to do as a parent.
I remember always wanting to fix her hair for her. I am not a hair stylist by any means but I loved to dry and curl her hair. I wasn't the best but she always let me.
To this day I can't channel surf past QVC. My mom loved that channel and was totally addicted to it.
The last is when I was 10 or so I had a morning paper route. She got up every morning and drove me around. At one point I couldn't do my route for a couple days so my mom did it for me. Well she was pulled over and questioned by the police because someone reported her for looking suspicious and thought she was casing houses. I think that was the last day she did my route for me. lol

 

[ronandannette]

Not good low key...now I'm going to have to fix my make-up before I leave for work. My DMom was the best mom in the whole world. I should be able to pick out thousands of tender memories but the dominant ones right now are all recent. She is 98 and languishing in a lock-down dementia ward. One of her occasional "phases" is combative, which is 180 degrees from her real self. A bit ago she was having a difficult moment and I made some off-hand comment like "c'mon, Mom..." Totally detached from reality, she snarled at me "I am NOT your mother!" My answer was "I know, but you used to be..."

 

[Pea-n-Me]

More to all those missing their moms.

I saw this this morning and it made me cry, too. Prince Harry is in Australia and someone in the crowd had a tribute book about his mom, Princess Diana. He paused to look through it. Look at the look on his face.

 

[Praying Colonel]

My mother taught me early on that hard work is a part of life, but with hard work I could accomplish whatever I chose to do. What an amazing gift she gave me.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

My mom (still living at 76) was always a good athlete. Played HS sports, was a cheerleader, great golfer, bowler, tennis player, etc. Also a PE teacher for years. Any kind of game or activity and she is IN.

But, I have never see anyone struggle so terribly to ride a bike. I mean, she sucks. My sister and I would laugh at her until we cried. She really tried, but she just could NOT do it right.

 

[eliza61]

I was young during the age of the 'grand department store". I swear it's the reason why I hate the mall because the big wonderful department stores back in the day made shopping an experience.

I grew up in New York City and going downtown to Macy's on 34th street was a huge treat. Every year in August my mom, and her two sisters would take me, my sister and my girl cousins downtown to go "school" shopping. we had to get clean!! I would love it because we would get to go through the perfume counter. My mom smelled like Channel no 5 and to this day I love that scent.

 

[PrincessJo]

My Mom and I didn't get along at all while I was growing up. She was very angry and whenever she spoke to me she was very sarcastic and could be very mean. Needless to say.... I have issues
That being said.... we have a much better relationship now that I am in my 40s and she's in her 60s. She has apologized for much of what she did and we have gotten past it. Every 3 or 4 months now we spend a Saturday together and go shopping and out for lunch. She adores my son and showers him with love and gifts when she can. Seeing her with my son and seeing how much he loves her are my favorite memories. My Mom got a second chance.
I'm glad we're in a good place. After reading so many comments from those who have lost their Mom, I'd hate to lose her and have left things unsaid.

 

[AnAmericanInDisney]

My mom would say our prayers with us every night when we were very little. She could say the "Hail Mary" in French. Then, she would read us a book. She would often read out of a big book of Disney short stories.

 

[bjscheel]

My mom is fantastic, always kind and patient. Went to nursing school in her late 40's. The thing I'm remembering right now is when we bought a prom dress for me on clearance. The skirt had two tiers of iridescent purple/black taffeta. It was a smidge short, but it was $12 so we got it. Lo and behold not long after, she was at a garage sale and they had a strip of iridescent purple/black taffeta large enough to make a third ruffle for 10 cents. It matched!

This was par for the course for mom. Always finding/having just the right thing. Just in the last week or two I brought her fabric to make DD13 a Goldilocks costume for the play. She had saved a ruffle off a bedskirt and it was just the right touch to hem the twirly skirt.

Oh, and for my senior prom, she took the bodice of the clearance prom dress and made a new skirt entirely for it. My girls have used that bodice for dress-up, including this past Halloween for an Anna costume (for which my mom made the cape)!

 

[wishesuponastar]

I am so happy for those of you that love your mom. My mom was not a mom. She walked out on us when I was 5 and my siblings were 4, 3, and 3 mos. old. Over the years we have all tried to have a relationship with her but I it never works out because I think we were hurt very much by her split, she left us with an abusive father and she moved in with her boyfriend and his son. I miss not having a mom be there for you in your life. A therapist once told me that some women simply cannot or do not want to be a mom.

 

[low-key]

last pic i took of my mom

 

[wishesuponastar]

Sorry Low-key How long ago was that?

 

[AustinTink]

last pic i took of my mom

Sorry, low-key.

 

[Luv2Run]

My absolute favorite memory of my mom is when we went to Disneyland in 2009 for my 25th birthday. We were in California under not-the-best circumstances (my cousin had passed away suddenly), so we needed a break from the sad stuff. We both love Disney, so this was the perfect escape for us. Tinkerbell is her most favorite Disney character, so as we were watching the fireworks that night and she spotted Tinkerbell making her flight from Sleeping Beauty castle to the Matterhorn, her face lit up and she exclaimed, "It's Tink! Look at her go!". I instantly teared up. I wasn't watching Tink, I was watching my mom being a kid again.

 

[4nana]

Sadly this is my second Mother's Day w/o my dear Mom , but she's in my heart forever. ^j^
So many good memories, she was the BEST! To sum it up, she had faith of an angel and patience of a saint.
Love n miss her every day.

Hugs to all those who have a mom to share special day with, and prayers for those who've lost their moms.

This was taken of us on her 80th BD. .

 

[wannabee]

My mom has been gone almost 7 years. She died much too young at 75. She was full of life and energy and would leave me in the dust when we walked. She was a retired Kindergarten teacher and she adored her grand kids. She was so much fun and was my best friend. I miss her every day.

 

[dashofsunshine]

I am so very sorry to all of you who have lost your sweet mothers. I cannot even fathom it. Sometimes I think about the fact that my Mama won't be around forever and I am so overcome with sadness that I feel like I'm choking. I'm 26 years old now, and as a teenager I NEVER would have said this, but she is truly my best friend in the world. So many memories...my first trip to Disney World when I was 6, just myself and Mom; some days when I was in elementary school, she would bring me lunch and a blanket and we would have a picnic out on the grass by the soccer fields; she took me to Italy when I graduated high school; one year at Christmas when I made her a huge photo collage of myself and my brother throughout the years with the "wife of noble character" Bible verse on it...she cried and cried...I will never forget the look on her face; the way she worked her fingers to the bone after she and my dad got divorced, to keep us in private school...she never showed worry or sadness or struggle - always strong and happy; the way we always used to travel to find snow at Christmas, because she LOVES snow and it's her favorite time of year...; the look on her face when I sang a song for her at my wedding...

I could go on and on. I hope that, one day, I can be even half the mother that she is to me.

 

[NewRVLady]

I LOVE this thread!!

My dad was CFO of the largest Dept store in our city
Mom, sis and I modeled there-but ironically could not afford the clothes.
Mom or Dad (big photographers) would snap pic s of Us modeling
I remember once my sis-a curly haired Brunette 6 year old Shirley Temple Look-a-like-modeled a red checkered dress with a white pinafore with a clown on it.
Dad made slides-projected image full size, so Mom could make a tracing ....and sewed sis the exact dress
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She fought zoning changes, way back before women did those things-to keep gas stations and liquor stores out of our neighborhood....ironically a couple years after we moved-a store opened up nearby

She's been gone 3 Mothers days now

 

[Sgt Mickey]

I am so happy for those of you that love your mom. My mom was not a mom. She walked out on us when I was 5 and my siblings were 4, 3, and 3 mos. old. Over the years we have all tried to have a relationship with her but I it never works out because I think we were hurt very much by her split, she left us with an abusive father and she moved in with her boyfriend and his son. I miss not having a mom be there for you in your life. A therapist once told me that some women simply cannot or do not want to be a mom.

I also fall into this category. So I completely understand.
She left us when I was about 11 and and my brother 4. When she first left my dad we lived with her but we had all these people living with us and her life was a constant party. So we haven't spoke in years. She was on my facebook for a while but I couldn't have her there and she just not be interested in our lives.
Somethings I do remember are that one time she was so tired of my listening to my Thriller cassette I came home and she had bought me the Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5.
Singing in the car.
Reading as much as she could. I for sure got those from her. BUT overall when she was there she wasn't there. I always say not everyone is meant to be a mother.

 

[E&Cmom]

She would vacuum at 7am on Saturday mornings.


My teenage self still wants to destroy that vacuum.

It is funny but I was going to post that my mom would vacuum early Sunday mornings singing old Spanish songs while she vacuumed Like you, as a teenager I wanted that vacuum gone. Now I would give anything to hear that sound.