mothers' day 2 March 2008
It’s easy to get annoyed with manufactured and exploited days like Valentine’s or Mothers’ Day but, really, isn’t it a nice excuse to spoil your Mam and someone you love. I guess we don’t do enough of it, generally. And you don’t have to celebrate it in a commercial way. Our own Mothers’ Day experience was saddened by the death of my wonderful sister-in-law Curly’s mum Marie, or ReeRee as my nephew called his gran from when he got the hang of talking. Each year we lose some more of the good folk and I know when our time is up we must move on but it’s sad to have the ranks diminished. In the meantime we’ve made it clear to my mother that she has to hang around for another 20 years at least because we’ve had enough of funerals to last a few decades yet. I hope she’s listening because we are VERY serious about that.
