To my fellow Gransnetters on Mothering Sunday

Wishing all mothers a special day.

Happy Mother's Day ? Thinking of all for whom this day brings some sadness ?

Lovely words GrannyLaine so many people with different experiences.
Thinking of everyone who is sad on this Mothering Sunday

Chestnut

I feel most for those whose child either died or was lost to them for some reason. They must feel such sadness on Mother's Day. It's not a happy day for so many women. ?

This is true. I feel the same Chestnut

Beautiful, beautiful thread. Can't read anymore just now, too many tears

Beautiful, beautiful thread. Can't read anymore just noe, too many tears

I feel for those mothers who had to give up their babies. At
the end of my Nana's street was the 'unmarried mothers 'home.
When we walked past my mother would say 'don't look at them
they are bad women' and she was only in her early 20's herself
with 3 under 5's. Such a hard world then. (early 60's)

Thank you, GrannyLaine: how compassionate, and how true. I am very firm on it being Mothering Sunday not Mother's Day, as mothering can take many forms including painful ones for some women. Sending all of these love on this wonderful/ difficult day.