What do you wish you'd inherited from your mother?

Her skin and hair and also her elegance and grooming.

No matter how much I try I am still disorganised and somehow not finished off.

Her skin and hair and also her elegance and grooming.

No matter how much I try I am still disorganised and somehow not finished off.

For me it would be her sewing skills which were incredible. And her patience. And her general goodness.

I have spent most of my life trying to be nothing like her!

Her determination to succeed at anything she attempted. Her smile. 56 years since she died, two days after my 21st, but her smile is still crystal clear in my memory.

Nothing
I have tried hard to be my own person and to lose her negativity.

Her looks
Her singing voice
(am I allowed two?)

I can't really think of anything I'd wish to inherit from my Mum, much as I loved her, except perhaps her talent and enthisusiasm for amateur dramatics. I'm delighted to find that one of my daughters and both my granddaughters are keen on amateur theatre, so somehow it's got passed down the generations.

My Mum was younger when she died than I am now, and I sometimes wonder how I'd get on with her if I met her socially, now. I'm not sure we'd have a lot in common (except that genes!).

Like quite a few others - nothing at all. So, why does she look out at me in every mirror and shop window?

I did inherit her relative lack of wrinkles and grey hair but hate it when I hear myself sounding like her.

Why grannylyn ?

I wish I had inherited my darling mum's gentle nature - she never argued with anyone - and her wonderful knitting skills. Like a previous poster I can knit but don't have the ability to knit like she did. She died in 2007 but for the last years of her life lived far away from me - that was my dad's choice

My Mum escaped from Nazi Germany in 1938 by camping in the British ambassador's compound in Berlin - whenever the ambassador went to Britain he took German nationals with him. I only dicovered this some 80 years later and by then Mum had dementia and could not tell me about her bravery. I wish I had her courage.

everything,in my eyes she was just perfect.

Her height, she was 5 foot 10 inches, I got to 5.5 and am now shrinking! DD, DGD1 and my sister are all as tall as my mother and DGD2 has overtaken me at the age of 12!

I'm greatful to have her flawless skin, and generous nature. Unfortunately I have plenty that I didn't want ! Her temper and her shape though I am taller than her 5' 1.5"
Would have loved her knitting skills. She could adapt a pattern with ease.

Her beautiful shapely legs. 2 of my DDs have inherited them. Not sure what happened to me, they missed a generation and I have tree trunks. Even my Dad had nice legs ...

Her calmness and kindness. She was a quiet person who taught me to sew and knit, took me to concerts, to the local theatre and to dancing class. I miss her every day.

Like Shysal I’ve spent my life trying to NOT be anything like my mother. I still love and miss her though!

The only thing I wish I could have inherited was her ability to read music. She was a wonderful pianist and organist. The dots don’t stay on the right lines for me and I have a lousy memory so I’ve never been able to play a musical instrument.

Funnily NfkDumpling my grandmother taught piano but my mother never learned to read music. However she could listen to a song and within an hour of messing around on the piano would play it perfectly. Not sure how I ended up with neither talent!

I would have liked to have inherited my Mother's swimming ability.

Details about my biological father.

As others have said ....nothing .

I’ve already inherited her lack of confidence and her pathetic hair, I really didn’t want anything else .

Her curly hair, which even now at age 84 is still very curly. She also hits the bottle frequently - hair dye that is !

Mum remained 39 throughout her life, she had a huge stroke at 87. Three weeks before that, as she had every Wednesday afternoon for many years, she donned her dancing shoes, put on a gorgeous, glam and glitzy frock, somehow put on mascara and lipstick, despite being registered partially sighted, called a taxi and went off to the afternoon of ballroom dancing at a local (stylish) venue.

I was a huge disappointed in some ways, that is absence of makeup, flat comfortable shoes etc but I know she loved me, she just wishes I loved Glam and Dancing in the way she did. Her favourite quote was from Ginger Rogers who said "I did everything Fred Astaire did, only backwards and in high heels"

I'll be raising a glass to mum on Mothers Day. I still find myself wishing I could buy her something, 10 years after she died. I'll take some flowers to the Church x

Her beautiful bone structure and her beautiful face - not because she was pretty but because she has a face that made anyone who saw it know that this wonderful woman was kind, gentle and honestly caring.
Her kind and loving heart
Her humour
Her cooking ability
Her interest in whatever was going on