Beautiful post about your mother.  I lost my mom in 1992, she was sick with a rare disease called addisons and it took a toll on her tiny body. I was only 19 when she passed and I think about her every day and miss her so much, just always hold on tight to all the good memories you had with you mother.  My mom was a very good mom and I could never ask for more or better.  I can always remember as far back as to her always rocking me in her arms and singing my Bonnie lies over the ocean to me and so many other good memories of her. But always remember that your mom is in a much better place.  I often find that hard for me to do because I want her here so much, and all I can do is keep the good memories of her close to my heart.

Your mother must be smiling at you right now.

For the daughter she helped to create is such a loving & sharing person.

The world is a better place because you are in the world.

I thank your Mom for bringing you into the world to let your light shine for all the world to see.

Your Mother lives on through you.

Me and Mom when I was a kid, and Me, Mom and my sister when we all reunited. Little did we know this would be the last time she was at my house. After 25 years, I quit smoking in May.

As delivered in January of last year, 2009.

You have worded this so beautiful. And,the words are so very true.

I am so sorry for the loss of your mother.

G-d bless you.

As we get older, the people we get to enjoy holiday traditions and memories gets lesser and lesser. I was so brainwashed that I severed relations with my own mother. She never did anything wrong but I was convinced otherwise. She wasn't invited to my wedding or there for the birth of my last child.

Once my husband was removed from our house, I reconnected with Mom. I apologized and explained what was being driven into my head for years, and we reconnected just like nothing ever happened. It was awesome. We both said to each other that we could die happy now. We talked on the phone and I would be her legs for her, her one leg would give out and she started falling frequently. I did her banking, went to the res, picked up her prescriptions etc.

She blacked out during a phone conversation (low blood suger) and I sent the ambulance there, she had a couple incidents in which I accompanied her and looked after her. On separate occasions, we said to each other that we could die happy now.

On a Friday night right after New Year's last year, Mom called me around midnight. She said it was accidental and her foot hit the phone. No matter, we chatted all night long til 6am. I am not a big fan of the phone, either. We talked about everything, my ex, my childhood, her childhood, the family members, my kids, everything. I was supposed to take my truck for inspection in a couple hours and I was starting to get tired, we closed out the converstation, I told her "Love you Mom" and she said "I love you too, baby." And 20 hours later, she died of a heart attack in her apartment.

Don't tell me things don't happen for a reason. Ten years nothing. I mean she wasn't invited to my wedding, or there for the birth of my last child. My husband hacked away at me for so long, he actually turned me against my own mother!

A year and a half of reconnecting, rebonding, that phone conversation, and then she left. Last year was our first Christmas back together again. This is our first Christmas without her, not by choice.

On Christmas Eve-Eve,  I opened this ornament that she had given me after Christmas. It's a tiny angel blowing a kiss. Wow. All I can tell you readers is, don't take tomorrow for granted. Tell your loved ones, that you love them. It takes so much negative energy to hold a grudge or be judgmental over stupid things. Remember what matters. Loving your family and being there for them.

I wish you a warm peaceful new year with those you care about.