I remember when I was small, Mum,
and not exactly a lady,
sitting on your lap with Mike,
as you told us a bedtime story.
I remember a time,
before Dad put in the central heating,
you toasting bread as a treat,
over the fire in the kitchen.
I remember coming home from school
to find you always there.
Lunch on the table,
buns, cakes or brown bread baking in the oven.
I remember your goodnight kisses each night,
often in vain,
as many nights you had to return,
with a threatening shout of ‘Go to sleep’.
I remember that wonderful Christmas,
when you made clothes for my tiny tears,
and the many mornings you woke before five am,
to drive me to the pool.
I remember our rows as I grew up,
bolshy, cranky and willful,
impossible to please
during my door slamming phase.
I remember Dad’s illness
and your strength, courage and guidance
as we laughed our way through hell,
with you at the helm.
I remember the day I became a mother,
and as I struggled through tiredness,
and worried through teenagers,
I understood all that you had sacrificed.
I remember a time when I was weakened and low,
life became hard and
for a time I struggled,
before your DNA kicked in.
I remember so many memories Mum,
over so many years,
The love, fun, laughter, and tears
of family life in 108.
Today it is Mother’s Day,
and I hope
you’ll forgive me for featuring you in my blog,
For today Mum, it is with pleasure I remember you.
Xxxxx
Happy Mothers day to my Mum in a million. xxxx
My thoughts on a page. 
Beautiful Tric.
Thanks she ll probably murder me. 😄
Fair enough. But you already knew that. 😉
Beautiful Tric. And thanks for the reminder that it is Mother’s Day!! Oops!
You’re welcome Aidan. She’ll be well impressed you remembered.
what a loving tribute to a wonderful mother )
Thanks Beth. It’s hard to really find words to do her justice. She’s a real lady. Don’t know where she got me. 🙂
How nice it is to remember. I recently wrote a poem about (to)my father who passed away some years back. I thought to myself, I should write one for my mother now in her 90s. But I think we find it easier to pay tribute to those who have passed away.
I know what you mean, but I’ve written a couple of posts to my mum and they’ve been much easier than I’d have thought to write. Mind you she’ll probably not be too impressed with me for ‘putting her in my blog’.
Lovely Tric! I’m sure she’ll forgive you even if she says she doesn’t!!
Hopefully, but I’m actually not sorry I wrote it. She’s fab and it is Mothers Day after all.
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission!
It’s nice to pay tribute to your mother like this. The threatening shout of “Go to sleep!” sounded very familiar.
Haha. I think it goes back through every generation worldwide.
It’s funny to think that, suitably translated, it was probably just as common a phrase in Latin, Norse and Old Persian.
Such. Gorgeous post Tric, I’m sure she’ll forgive you x
Thanks Grainne.
Lovely. And our teenage bolshy years really do come back to haunt us, don;t they?! Happy Mother’s day to you 🙂 x
Lovely post😊 happy mother’s day to you both
Thanks Kelly and to you too.
That’s beautiful Tric. I’m sure she’ll forgive you for featuring her after a poem like that x
and happy belated mum’s day to you too, tric. sorry i forgot that in my earlier comment )