posted May 07, 2011 04:05 AM            

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No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Nelson Mandela

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posted May 07, 2011 06:26 AM            

I forget that Mothers Day is a different day in the UK and US.

Happy Mothers Day to all and as someone wrote on my Facebook this morning:

"If flowers grow in heaven Lord, then pick a bunch for me ▬▬▬ place them in my Mothers arms and tell her they're from me. ▬▬▬ Tell her that I love and miss her, and when she turns to smile, ( ◕‿◕｡ ღ ❤ place a kiss upon her cheek and hold her for a while. I do miss my Mum!"

posted May 07, 2011 06:08 PM            

Randall
Thanks for your kind words.

When you see in movies how families get split in two because of inheritance or a WILL, you think it would never happen to your family, you think everyone is above that grab for money, the manipulation it requires to change things for your benefit, but it happened to us. They tried to be underhanded but it failed. Billie and I just happened to be in the middle of it, in a manipulation ploy, we feel like tools in their game of emotional blackmail. There's nothing we can do, it has nothing to do with us. I still send her messages on her birthday, telling her I love her, even if I get silence back I know somewhere she is appreciating it. I hope.

Any way, not going to let it spoil the day.

I have two beautiful children and my Grandmother who has put up with so much from her own daughter, but she still never says a bad word about anyone. My Nana has always put her children and grandchildren first, all her life, no matter what.
She is forgiving, kind and extremely fair in her generosity.

My Nana

posted May 07, 2011 06:26 PM            

Wonderful idea with the photo!

Here's my Mum and Me not long before she died, I'd stolen her glasses and put them on my head and she couldn't see too well, oops!

Much love Mum, wherever you are xxxxxxx

posted May 07, 2011 06:59 PM            

its been over a year now.i wish i could have given something beautiful to her before she left us.i graduated as a doctor 4 months after she passed away.she always wanted to see me finishing my graduation but sadly missed it.
i love her a lot.hope shes happy where ever she is.

posted May 07, 2011 10:27 PM            

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Mother is synonymous with sacrifice. I know a guy who never knew what a chicken wing was for years when he was growing up; his mom gave her children the breasts and thighs and legs and saved herself only the wings. She worked three (not two, but three) jobs to pay rent and buy food and school clothes. Whenever a waitress waits on me at a restaurant, I always tip fat, because I know that chances are she is someone's mother and is trying to make ends meet. You know you're a mother when you only have one leg shaved...when you don't have a moment to yourself for years and then go out for the first time and keep calling home to make sure your kids are okay...when you count the sprinkles on each cupcake to be fair. It is a thankless job with no real payoff until years later--when your kids grow up to be wonderful people who then appreciate what you've done for them. Happy Mother's Day! If yours is still alive and in your life, let her know what she means to you.

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You made me cry,Randall

posted May 08, 2011 12:16 AM            

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SunChild your Grandma looks like a Pisces/Virgo effect. Giving and Sacrificing! Is she so? May be she didnt require to do it but she looks like a person who could. And your mum i think will come around later.

And Randall thats a beautiful post you have posted. Brought tears to the eyes. Yes mothers indeed do that. My mother too used to save the good things for us first. So when i started earning i bought for her whatever i could. Once, a couple of years before she died, a pair of golden ear tops. And did she like it? Her expressions when she opened the gift made my life.

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Beautiful. Thanks for helping me remember what is real and true in life !

posted May 08, 2011 01:30 AM            

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Originally posted by Cancer/Scorpio729:
My mommy is the best mommy in the world, and my sun in Cancer has nothing to do with it

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posted May 08, 2011 01:32 AM            

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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
I am gonna cry when I write this.My mother is a nut but she loves me.
She listens to me.I,often,have to beat her down and threaten never to talk to her,again,but we come back.
Love covers a multitude of sins and I love her

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posted May 08, 2011 08:14 AM            

Abc, I think so too.

Randall, I love what you wrote.

I just sent an email, feeling drained now but glad I did, going to bed now. She wont speak to me in person so I hope she reads my emails at least.

posted May 08, 2011 08:29 AM            

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. -Honore de Balzac

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one mother the wide world over. – George Cooper

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. – Tenneva Jordan

and my favorites

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. – Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. – Spanish Proverb