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It was Mother’s Day this Sunday and thank you to my children
and theirs for making mine special. I was also thinking about my Mum who sadly
passed away over fifty years ago, but there’s a lovely quote I want to share
with you. I’m sorry that I don’t know who said it. It went something like this.
“It’s only when we have children ourselves that we realise that it was our parents who gave us our magical childhood.”
So this heart is for my Mum, who gave us our love of nature, art, music and literature and how to make beautiful things, even though we had very little. She told beautiful stories and showed us how to make dolls from old stockings, how to make puppets out of papier mâché and fabric scraps and how to use them to tell our own stories.
Even though we were jealous of the things which other children had like bicycles and beautiful homes, they were always at our house and wanted to play with us. They were jealous of the freedom which we had as latchkey children, even though we had to wash dishes and do the housework, which they didn’t.
Our Mum also taught us how to be cheerful and optimistic even if our lives sucked.
So here’s to all the Mums out there, holding up the sky. You may not get much thanks and your children may not appreciate you now, but someday they’ll remember the sacrifices you made, the Christmas Dinners and the holidays and those times you worked all night to make that Leaver’s Dress or that costume for the Book Week parade.
Thank you to my children and theirs for a lovely Mother’s Day. I saw a lovely quote recently,
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