For all whose Moms aren't with us anymore

I said Hi Mom to mine today - gone since 1994. :cry:

Best friend I had growing up. :hug:

Never forgotten. Raised my brother and me as a single Mom when that wasn't done. Strong woman dearly beloved by all.

She would have been 102........

her drivers' license, my birth certificate and my brother's birth certificate and who knows where else? :7 Even toward the end of her life when I'd take her to the doctor and they'd say "how old are you Helen?" she'd take a breath, ready with a like, then look at me and we'd both start to laugh. Busted!

I often think of how much changed during her lifetime, same with your mom. Amazing. :hi:

It's definitely a melancholy day for me now. Luckily, my best friend's mom has sorta become my surrogate mother. She just called to thank me for the "like a mom" card I sent her.

I am now 57 and there is not a day that goes by that I don't miss her beyond words. Thanks.

you for this. :hug:

And Dad passed away just a few weeks ago. I'm not religious but I'd like to think they're together again in some way. I missed her terribly - still do - but I think he did even more.

No matter how old you get, you still need your Mom.

It has nothing to do with religion, but I saw them both when I almost passed away in 2009. They were doing quite well and seemed happy just FYI.

They go to a good place, I know that much. :)

Deceased mother of cancer 2002 and it was quick! :(

apart. You are so right about need.

and I miss her everyday. I visited her grave today. Love you forever, mom!! Thank you for this post!

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:hug:

*cries*

I miss her today especially. ;(

Thank you for the remembrance.

I barely knew her. Her Mother raised me. She's been gone 46 years.

i miss her even now.... 25 years later. my sister has been scanning and posting pics on facebook of us and my mom and such. there was a picture of my mom as a young child with her sister and i saw my middle daughter's face.... what a bright moment to be able to see that resemblance.

Great pic, I love this. Mine was only 66 and had been in great health before suffering a series of strokes during the year before she passed away.

I miss you mom, but you left behind many flowers which continue to bloom.

nt.

I miss you Mom.

30 years gone, is that possible.
thank you.

. . . I lost my mother on Dec. 13, 2000, at the age of 69 (she would have turned 80 this past March), and my Dad a mere 12 days later, on Christmas Day, 2000.

and she was 62. She left me all her sewing supplies and every time I find just what I need in them, I yell "Thanks mom." In some ways she is still here but I miss her lots.

Thanks for this post.

I have been thinking of my mother all day today, I lost her 2yrs ago.

Gosh, sorry to read this kestrel. :( :hug:

then had lots of strokes from untreated hypertension of decades' duration. Just a sad waste of a life.....

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you just lost her... :hug:

severely mentally ill. I shed my tears over her on many occasions over the course of 37 years. This just came as a big relief that it's all finally over. My sister is the one I feel sad about, she has been the one who had to deal with Mom on a daily basis and be in charge of her money and caretaking.

so many dramatic true stories on this thread. i was just crying reading them all.
i lost my mother only five months before she died. what you and your sister (and your mother!) must have endured for decades. so, so sorry...

dad dropped dead of a heart attack 11-23-68 - i was 13, he was 49. twelve years later, to the day, my mother succumbed to cancer secondary to a massive CVA - the stroke is when i lost my mom in a huge sense. she was 54. i still believe that her dying on his anniversary is meaningful. she waited til the day, or so i believe, even though she was aphasic from the stroke so we can never be certain.

Sigh.

I was essentially orphaned by the time I finished college.

i was 25 and all of my parents and all of my grandparents were dead. some of the friends i grew up with still have both parents. only in the past few years are they losing their parents. i don't know why it plays that way for some of us.

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happy mother's day mom!!!!

spanone

..the woman who raised my dear husband. I think about you every day.

Love Robbie

I knew it was going to be tough when the ads stung but I didn't know how much.

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Remembering the funniest things about her today. She had a great sense of humor. Thanks mom!

My brother called her the old eagle sharpy, never a harpy, she was always funny.
I worried in 2005, when she told me she was sick of all the crosswords puzzles, in the papers and books. she always did them in no time with a pen.

Then I found out she had switched her expertise to the horse races. She never bet any money, but she'd watch the races on her cable TV. and She said that calculating a winner was way more fun than figuring out a puzzle word, and the horses were beautiful.


Love You Mom! Thanks for all your love and support! 7 kicks for Mom!!


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I no longer have that 'safety net' that is my mother!

It's true when they say that no one will ever love you as much as mom.

50 years old. Too young.

I miss her.

My mom passed on April 15th of this year.

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Thanks for the sentiment.

I have missed her every single day since.

She was 54 and lost her fight with cancer...she was born in 1938 in Honolulu and lived about a mile from Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked.

We had our problems, but in the end we worked things out...I still miss her.

She was in church on a Sunday morning when it happened. My daughter is graduating high school in 2 weeks. And I know Mom will be there,,,watching,,,

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That could have been me. My mother had cancer, but survived just fine... one of the lucky ones.

That loss must still leave a big hole. :hug:

She has been on my heart all day, and I know today has been very hard for her.

:loveya: Eleanor. :hug:

I miss her terribly.

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about her...

Thanks Mom, ya done good.

I was just 7 years old, but not a day goes by that I don't still miss her.

She left us on Christmas day at the age of 88. Her passing has left a huge hole in my life and even more so today. RIP Mother.

Thank you for this thread. I miss my mother very much, she was a strong, smart woman - raised her siblings, raised her own 10 children - a truly amazing woman.

"Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear."

- Anonymous :hug:

There has not been a day, not a day, when I don't think of that beloved woman. Thank you for this post.

I miss you, Mommy! (And say hi to Dad, my MIL, Pretzel, and everyone else for me!)

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I remember the first Mother's Day, I couldn't watch TV for almost a month; every ad cut like a dull knife.

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K&R

Still can't believe she's gone.

Your mom and I had exchanged a PM or two here, after participating in the same threads and noticing that we were both in NM, and I had not heard that she had passed away. I'm so terribly, terribly sorry to hear that. Please accept my very deepest condolences.
abq e streeter (Ron)

She was a wonderful DUer, very caring and determined.

I'm sorry for your loss, for our loss. :hug:

My mom's been gone since 1981 and not a day goes by that I don't miss her. The first years are the worst, may your memories and your love and her love for you provide you some comfort.

I feel much worse for the suffering she endured in this world (and for my being a rather immature teenager who didn't really understand what she was going through), than for her being freed from that suffering when her body could no longer fight the cancer. I have asked, in prayer, for her forgiveness for not being a better son, on more occasions than I could possibly count.

Sharp - nothing got past her,she was a sergeant in the Marines during WW2.

She had a wicked sense of humor.God, I miss her and I welcome the 'mom' dreams.

Thank You.

She was so excited about the new millennium coming that I'd hear her thoughts once a week in our regular calls. I called as I always had for twenty years on mothers day morning to wish her the best. My father answered the phone that morning with my mother in his arms,, He said mom died,,,, as he's waiting for the ambulance to arrive and help him, he cradles my mother on the outside steps waiting for help to come.

I lost my beloved mother in 1992.
Ten years ago, when my grandson was only three-years-old, I showed him my parents' wedding picture.
I asked him who he thought she was...
He answered, "Sleeping Beauty?"



I miss her...
My beautiful mother....Sleeping Beauty.

Thank you for this post.


peace~

she died at the end of 1997 two days after Christmas from breast cancer. My mother was my best friend not a day goes by that I don't think about her and miss her. Mama I love you! :loveya:

my strength
my courage
my dearest friend

i am still heartbroken

i miss you beyond words

My own mother died on Sept. 11, 2008. She fought hard to live long enough to vote for Obama, the first time she had voted since Johnson.

Tomorrow, I will be planting a White rose at our new home in memory of her and our granddaughter who passed a couple years before.

Happy Mother's Day Mom

I lost my Mom 10 years ago. Your post says it all.

Lost my Mom in 2000. She had lung cancer. They had just told her it couldn't be treated with chemo or radiation. She died of a heart attack that night instead.

Miss her still.

I miss her.

My mom has been gone 21 years. Still miss her.

when I was still in college.

on the day of my sister's birthday but held on one more day before passing. That's love. My mother, Dorothy Jeanne was the epitome of love. I love you, Mama! Happy Mother's Day, my angel.

I spoke to my mom in a dream on Saturday. We lost her one month ago today.

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My Mother was a woman libber before it became popular. Mom was a political junkie who turned C-Span on early in the morning and left it on all day. Back in 1992 when she was 74, she proudly wore a "Year of the women" t-shirt.

Mom worked tirelessly for women running for office in her small city in Illinois. When it became impossible for her to live alone I brought her out to California to live with us for the last two and half years of her life.

Every time Mom saw Senator Durbin on TV she would say:"That's MY senator." Mom died six years ago, but I can just hear her say with so much pride when President Obama is on TV....THAT'S MY PRESIDENT.

gone and never forgotten, I miss my mom.

I still miss her.

Has it really been thirty-one years? I was sixteen, and she developed cervical cancer back when it was still a death-sentence. I miss her every time I look at my own children...and then some.

There isn't a day that goes by that something doesn't remind me of her. I was 28 when she died. Mom never met her granddaughter who is almost her reincarnation in spirit. I don't know about you but I cried the whole time I was reading this thread.

her (blessedly) long life. She passed a year and a half ago. She'd helped on the Obama campaign a bit near the end...

Thanks, mom, for raising us boys right. We miss you.


(thanks, n2doc, for the thread)

Born 1915, died 2002 from of all things drowning.

Tomorrow, May 10th, will be the second anniversary of her death. I miss her, no one will ever love me like my mother did. Sorry, I'm typing this through my tears.

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Missing my mom right now.

... when I traveled to visit mom and sis in SoCal then. And she's been having bouts of light strokes since then. Hoping that she will be here for next Mother's day, and she probably will, but she's definitely starting to have her health deteriorate a bit these last few months. Told her I loved her yesterday, and will keep doing so every time I call her now as long as I'm able to call her. Thanks for the thought!

a few weeks ago and it hurts badly.

replace it permanently.

There are many of us here who have lost our Moms and my heart goes out to you - I know how you must feel. Just remember that God gave us memories so we can have roses in winter.

It is a void in one's life that can never be filled.

...and I'm fast approaching the point where I will outlive her. It grows on my mind.

My depression was that bad. She passed December 20th, 1988. Talk about a fucked up Christmas!

Thanks for the great thread!

My Mom died in July of 2001. (I lost my Dad six months later.) It is a life changing event and nothing will ever be the same. She was my best friend when I was an adult, and the best Mom when I was younger. I love you, Mom.

It will two years May 30th since I lost my son and only child in a car accident. Mother's Day pretty much sucks for me . . .

Dec. 14, 1984 at the age of 63. She was my rock and I miss her terribly....but not as much as I did for the first few years, which felt like hell on earth. Thanks for this thread.

Dolly, your loss is my worst nightmare. I, too, am the mother of one son and his death has been my greatest concern from the day he was born. I can only imagine what you must feel on a daily basis, let alone on Mother's Day. Sincere sympathy to you, and may you feel peace eventually.