With Mother’s Day approaching I have been feeling a little soppy and nostalgic. Motherhood is hard and I have to admit this past month with all of the illness in our house I have found it especially hard. Don’t you find that being a Mum yourself really makes you appreciate your own Mum all the more? It certainly makes me appreciate my Mum.
It’s been particularly tough with both kids having Chicken Pox lately and it must have been much harder for my Mum as she had Chicken Pox at the same time as my brother and I. I have known this for years but never really appreciated how tough it must have been before. It is hard enough dealing with two kids when you are well, let alone when you are suffering too.
We have always been close, even with the stomping and door slamming of my teenage years, and though we didn’t always get on so well living together when I came home from Uni (not an easy transition), as long as we aren’t living in the same house and both have our own space we get on really well. We have been through some tough times, with the death of my Dad and her fight with Breast Cancer a year later. But we’ve also had some amazing times including a week in New York on the start of my world travels and her wedding to my ovely Step-Dad (Pops). She set me up on the blind date with my lovely Hubs and is a wonderful Nanny to my kiddies. She helps us out so much with the kids, mostly because I know she just loves being their Nanny!
I’m not very good at sentimental writing, and I certainly can’t write a poem but here is a little photo tribute to my lovely Mum on Mother’s Day, I could not appreciate and love her more. (I could have used some very dodgy shots of us both from over the years but chose to be kind to both of us – note the jump from toddler photos straight to adult ones lol!)
Thanks for being fab Mum 🙂
You and your Mum look so similar.
Lizzie Dripping
Lovely photos! Your mum sounds like an amazing lady.
You’re right, having kids of your own definitely does make you appreciate the things your own mum went through!
Happy Mother’s Day to you and your mum.
Thank you and to you! x
Lovely pictures of the two of you. Being a mother does make you appreciate your mum more especially as I struggle with one child sometimes and she had 5.
oh wow yes I could not imagine having 5 so I take my hat off to her too! xx
Aww these photos are lovely and LM looks like you on the baby one at the top! I get on really well with my Mum too but I’m not sure we could live together all the time! hehe. Have a lovely Mother’s Day and thanks for the linky xx
Thanks hon do you think so? Ha ha we definitely couldn;t but we do love each other to bits 🙂 xx
Aww what a lovely post, I bet your mum loved reading this (if she has haha). I could have written the exact same words about my own mum xx
Thank you and she cied bless her, soppy mumma! xx
Such lovely photos. Being a mum has really made me appreciate how much love my mum has for me. Of course I’ve always known she loves me but until you feel that ‘I will protect and look after you forever’ feeling about your own child you never really understand. Mums are a special breed 🙂 x
You are so right, becomign a mum really does change your perspective and I really appreciate my mum a lot more now! xx
Oh how I remember those teenage door-slamming days! *cringe* What a lovely tribute to your Mum and gorgeous photographs too. Thanks so much for linking up this happy post at #sharethejoy x
haha i know, we have all been there I think! Thanks for hosting 🙂 xx
What a lovely tribute to your mum, I love the photos, especially the one with you running up to her, magic!
I do love that shot, so cute! xx
I love these pictures, you can tell the close relationship you have, the picture of your mum in the pink shows how happy she is. She looks fab on her wedding day too, we should all appreciate our mums, xxx
MamaMuse
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Oh what lovely photos, does anyone have any good ones between toddler and adulthood?! Especially if they lived in the 80s…….xx
hahaha that is very true, my little bro’s girlfriend and I were discussing the other day the fact that we had the same fashion “mistakes” as kids! xx
Beautiful post and lovely photos honey. Sounds like you have a truly fabulous mum xx
Thanks lovely, I am certainly very lucky and hope I can do as good a job as she did! xx
What a lovely post – your mum sounds like an amazing lady. Managing to look after two children when you have chicken pox yourself is no mean feat! The photos of the two of you together are beautiful and I hope you both had a wonderful Mothers Day.
What lovely photos! A lovely post 🙂
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Aww that’s lovely. It really does make you appreciate your Mum more doesn’t it, once you’re in the thick of it yourself! x
I don’t know if it’s my pregnancy hormones but your beautiful photos have me welling up – how wonderful! It’s so lovely to see how close you are to your mum 🙂 🙂 Mim @ mamamim.com #maternitymonday
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