My friend said to me the other day that she was feeling a bit down and missing her mum who had died about 4 years ago. I asked her if there was any particular reason and she replied 'Well it's coming up to mother's day isn't it'
My mum didn't know it was Mothers Day today, she didn't know what day it was, yesterday she thought it was my wedding day (I'm celebrating 33 years soon) and that she'd missed it.
When I arrived this afternoon she was sitting alone on the edge of the bed looking at her garden out of the window. She had dinner stains all down her cardigan.
The dog had messed on the carpet - that's every day this week now. I gave her a card and a box of chocolates and went off into the kitchen for water and cloths to clean up the mess.
She opened the chocolates upside down and most of them fell out onto the dirty carpet! She wouldn't let me put them in the bin and put them back into the box whilst trying to wipe them with a tissue she had up her sleeve, then she offered me one!
She said she had ran out of cherries and I needed to go to the shops??
The tea-time carer arrived and asked if she wanted any dinner, mum said she hadn't been fed all day.
I tidied up, sorted her clean clothes from her dirty ones and put them back into the drawers that she had emptied.
I took the tea bags out of the freezer. I flushed the loo, sorted out her pads that were all over the floor, I took the After Eight Mints out of the dog's food bowl and then I hoovered.
I kissed her on the cheek and told her that I would pop in again before bedtime.
I haven't had a conversation with my mum since I don't know when and my thoughts turned to the comments made by my friend. I too am feeling down, I too am missing my mum and my mum hasn't died she just isn't here anymore.
Happy Mothers Day Mum with all my love as always xxxxxxxxxxx
My mum didn't know it was Mothers Day today, she didn't know what day it was, yesterday she thought it was my wedding day (I'm celebrating 33 years soon) and that she'd missed it.
When I arrived this afternoon she was sitting alone on the edge of the bed looking at her garden out of the window. She had dinner stains all down her cardigan.
The dog had messed on the carpet - that's every day this week now. I gave her a card and a box of chocolates and went off into the kitchen for water and cloths to clean up the mess.
She opened the chocolates upside down and most of them fell out onto the dirty carpet! She wouldn't let me put them in the bin and put them back into the box whilst trying to wipe them with a tissue she had up her sleeve, then she offered me one!
She said she had ran out of cherries and I needed to go to the shops??
The tea-time carer arrived and asked if she wanted any dinner, mum said she hadn't been fed all day.
I tidied up, sorted her clean clothes from her dirty ones and put them back into the drawers that she had emptied.
I took the tea bags out of the freezer. I flushed the loo, sorted out her pads that were all over the floor, I took the After Eight Mints out of the dog's food bowl and then I hoovered.
I kissed her on the cheek and told her that I would pop in again before bedtime.
I haven't had a conversation with my mum since I don't know when and my thoughts turned to the comments made by my friend. I too am feeling down, I too am missing my mum and my mum hasn't died she just isn't here anymore.
Happy Mothers Day Mum with all my love as always xxxxxxxxxxx
